Yeah, because they will never be able to send the sequence Ctrl-C, open a browser, Ctrl-V, and click submit to that remote desktop.
And they will never be able to zip stuff up, and upload it to somewhere.
No. Even removing those functions does not help. Since you end up with a unusable UI, long before you have found all things that you have to lock down. It’s a game that you can only lose.
With bad latency you just can’t win! That’s a straight out fact. It’s as simple as that.
I remember back in the days of playing in the CounterStrike (even pre 1.0) league. I had around 30-40 fps. I changed some settings, got 60 fps, and suddenly ruled the game with a massive improvement! Yeah, that’s right: A 8-16 ms improvement in lag changed my whole game. And we don’t even talk about Quake 3 CPMA (pro mode) here. ^^
It can’t be my sensitivity, because I did not notice any kind of lag at all beforehand. And from making a bit of music, I know that only at 30-50 ms of lag do I start to notice it.
Take two equal players. Let one play on this thing. And he will always lose. The ultimate test would be CPMA. The self-rendering one would win 100 to 10 (lucky shots).
Yes. The only thing where it makes sense, are turn-based, or very slow games.
While I agree on the point you’re trying to make, actually most of the medicine we know today is stuff that grows in exotic jungles (and in the nature around us)!
Also, doctors are normally not actually healing you. I mean, when was the last time you saw a doctor talk about the actual cause of something with you? No, I don’t mean the typical doctor’s definition of “cause”. That’s a symptom! The real cause is either something from the environment (food, nature, psychological things), or genetic. But instead, those pharmacists with further training go and call heart failure a cause of death!! That is so WTF it’s beyond belief!
It’s like seeing a cop go “Oh, the cause of this car crash was that big dent in your hood”.
No it’s not. Heart failure is caused by something. Headache is caused by something. Everything is caused by something... and if it’s not genetic, it always is outside the body. Full stop.
Now I can see you thinking I want the opposite of “normal” medicine, with all that pseudo-scientific shit. No, I don’t. Neither nor. I want that people finally think for themselves, lay off the false social conditioning, and find out the actual causes of their diseases. Then, the could actually heal!
Because getting a constant drug pump implanted in your body is not a solution, and you are not healthy afterwards. Just as constantly taking painkillers is not going to ever heal you. That stuff just makes you ignore the symptoms, and pay loads of cash to the assholes who will do everything in their power from you actually healing, and becoming independent of their shit.
Ginko sellers and pharma companies are not opposites. The are the exact same thing. Selling shit that does not actually help you, and make money off of it, as long as possible.
Psychosomatic medicine is a very interesting area. Just don’t try this at home, if you don’t know what you’re doing. Because if you get someone to believe he can’t breathe, he will die. Even if he can breathe. The brain just shuts down anyway.
"Ginkgo biloba has failed -- again -- to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the herb doesn't prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease,
(Emphasis mine.)
In other news: - Cars have failed — again — to live up to their reputation for quickly getting you somewhere. Just over a year after a study showed that the machine can”t fly or survive outer space,... - Caffeine has failed — again — to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the substance doesn't prevent dementia, Alzheimer's disease,... -...
(I'm not commenting on the rest of TFS. Just those two sentences.)
Uuum, that’s an actual place in the game. If you killed the dancers, they bursted into a cloud of money, like piñatas. The normal routine was, to go to the bathroom, look at the mirror, tell yourself “Damn. I’m looking *good*!”, take a piss, then go out, pay her a few bills, then shoot everyone, take the loads of money, and run. ^^
Sadly, when I tried the same in GTA, some years later, I had the military surrounding the building.:/
Something ab out the “majestic rise” of the great “OOo” made me crack up. I imagined such an animal, in the woods, standing up, gracile like a 80,000 pound sperm whale, ramming against the giant beast of Word. And after having won, beginning its elaborate mating dance with a seduced Emacs cow.
Oh man, if imagination were downloadable, there would already be a YouTube video out there. ^^
What did I want to say...?... Ah, I know: I prefer...
Emacs! The word processor of CHUCK NORRIS! It feels like eating his favorite morning cereal: Gravel and nails. Without milk! It’s blazingly fast, just as Chuck Norris is... If you have completed the 10 years it takes to find out the most basic functions. You can do everything in it, just as Chuck Norris can do everything. And I meanev-ery-thing! (The only thing missing, is a good text editor.;)
Business users have a lot of finely detailed and rigidly laid out documents
And then they use Word... of all programs... to do that? That’s like drawing pictures in MS Paint. ^^
For that task, the area is not “word processing”, but “DTP”. InDesign, QuarkXPress, Scribus and (La)TeX would be the tools for that.
The “quality” of layout that you can do in MS programs, you can do in OOo too. There is no guarantee that MS documents look right in OOo, true. But on top of there also being no guarantee that MS documents will display right in other versions from MS, there is a guarantee that open documents will not display right in MS at all.
For sending around documents, with a guaranteed layout, you use PDF anyway. Anything else would look ridicoulous and pointy-haired.*
Plus, with a MS Office contract, you have a software vendor to fall back to when things go wrong. You don't get this to the same extent with OSS, which is why business is often slow to adopt it.
Stop spreading that lie. There are many companies out there who gladly sell you professional support. I wonder if MS will ever change the application and add new code for you... Because they can, and you can afford it too.:)
* Yes, I laughed at my ex-boss for sending me stuff in MS formats. Then I founded my own company, telling them I’d come back when I could buy them for some peanuts. Now they were sold for a single peanut. I was there. I laughed. ^^ In the end you control your own value, what you accept, and what not.
I think the more those “IP” idiots get force-fed their own “medicine”, the faster they either die or wise up. I’d go so far as to intentionally spark “IP wars” between the worst “IP” idiots.
We should browse all patents in a crowd-sourced way, and list all potential offenders. Then overwhelm the patenting companies with the lists of “offenders” until they completely and utterly drown in them, and the only way left, to make it stop, is to give up and dismiss the concept of “IP”. (Be sure to leave that door open. If they don’t have that way left, it will end badly.)
Wow, way to be superficial. But I don’t blame you, because I understand your basis of thought.
But in reality, you have to deeply understand someone, to solve things like this. See, a “terrorist” is just another human too. Who thinks that either a) this is the right thing to do, from all he knows, b) he is forced to do this, but does not actually want it at all (or just lives in the illusion of being forced), c) out of bad luck happens to be the idiot who got into the wrong situation, and does not have any own or forced drive to do it, (For women, point C is a bit stronger and point A a bit weaker, because they are more specialized on emotional intelligence.)
So you have to find out, what drives that “terrorist” to doing what he does.
I bet with you, that it’s a combination of some religious asshole brainwashing him since early childhood, and a very desperate life. where channeling the hate and anger towards this, becomes an acceptable way.
Now you can’t tell me, that it’s fair to punish someone for growing up in a fucked up mindset and a not so nice world. It’s wrong to channel it to you, yeah, definitely. But saying that he is a poor slob, and that the result is wrong, is not mutually exclusive. In fact, the ass who brainwashed him, most likely got brainwashed himself, or something bad happened to him. Or he just lives in such a strong mindset, that everyone inside would think it’s real without doubt. Like the people that flee from North Korea, who think that if they touch something with the American flag on it, that their hands will actually really rot off!
Sure you can call him a “nasty terrorist”, and kill him. Then kill those mullas or whoever, etc, etc. But that will only mean an even more desperate world there, that will spawn even more desperate people. And in the end, would you then be much better than them? Definitely not.
So don’t go down that path, to that low level. Instead... well, do the opposite. Be a shining beacon of light that they can really respect. Show that you understand them, and even support them. Then slowly let them discover your mindset. Be someone that they can trust. It’s interesting, how close it is to handling the bully in the club: Befriend him. ^^ I’ve done this with whole groups of big dudes who were full of drugs. I channeled their aggression against something else, and because they saw that I understood them, they suddenly thought I were cool, and wanted to befriend me.:)
One thing being worse, does not make the other thing good. Sorry to break your illusion.
It’s like, you are at -5, and are now happy because there’s a -7... while you’re still at -5. Not a 0.
Wanna found a new country? We buy ourselves an island with good connections to the outside world, and try it out. If it fails, we still got more experience in those months / that year, than others got in their whole lives.
Man, I know so many people who would do this with me *right now*. Except that we all somehow seem to not have the balls to *actually* do it.:( Damn inertia.
While I agree a bit, you apparently don’t know the Yes Men. They are known for stunts where they impersonate government agencies, and then go e.g. to conferences and look how far they can go, until the audience starts to complain.
Turns out they can go further than even the tinfoil hat crowd could imagine. They for example presented how one could catch the shit that’s going down the toilet, and making re-burgers out of them, to feed the 3rd world. Or how slavery is too expensive and the current model of letting them work there where you don’t even have to feed them at all, is much better. And they got a whole room applauding at them.
They aim for a seriously presented but blatantly obvious and over the top parody. And their point is, that people don’t get the parody and think it’s actually real.
Seems they won again. And we can all laugh at the Canadian government. The only reason we don’t laugh at you too, is because we can’t assume you did read TFA or saw their work.:) So I give you that.
I don’t know how many times I have recommended this simple and effective solution to the XUL problem:
Just compile the damn stuff into something faster! Like a library, but a bit safer (sandboxed). Leave the XUL files where they are, monitor them with inotify or at specific events, and re-compile them if they were changed (e.g. by installing a extension. Do not accept pre-compiled stuff in an extension. That way you still get to see all the source.
There, done. I don’t get what’s so hard about this. The whole parsing and error handling thing is already done. Just walk the tree with functions that replace the nodes with binary code or something alike. And get the dragon book if you haven’t already.:)
Actually, nobody cares if H.264 is “protected by anything”. We all have pulled stuff off of bittorrent, loaded some cracks, or had someone do that for us. I don’t remember seeing any computer without “illegal” software in the last 10 years. Even in companies!
Like with GIF.
The joke is, that YouTube already uses H.264. Someone at Google should offer a Firefox extension that simply implements H.264 for the video tag.:)
Call me ignorant, but I simply won’t ever buy into that shit. Ever.
I am more secure in my reality than they could ever be. And I know that that is lies, bullshit and greed for power. And that it has nothing to do with physical reality. Because information by its very definition, can only be proven to exist, trough the act of copying it. Because there is no such thing as “moving” information. And so, to make it come to existence for anyone but you, you have to copy it to someone else. Who then has that information too, and can’t do anything about it. So information can never be owned by someone. Or he could’n prove it existed at all. It’s just not physically possible. Ever.
They can threaten us and go all crazy. But unless they cease to let it come into existence for us, they can’t do anything else than copy it to us.
Oh, and by the way. I just requested this page. I did not “take it”. The server did give it to me. So it would be the server’s “fault”. If it weren’t you who did send the data to the server without it asking for it, in the first place. You yourself copied it to the server. Who just took it. Like throwing your watch at someone, and then calling him a thief. ^^
What most people don’t realize, is that the best thing to do to not be affected by critics, is to not react to them, and to not act affected. They can’d drag you in the dirt, if they can’t adhere to you. Or in other words: People will see you not react at all, and think that it’s because there is nothing to react to. If you react, they know he’s got you there.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, because they will never be able to send the sequence
Ctrl-C, open a browser, Ctrl-V, and click submit
to that remote desktop.
And they will never be able to zip stuff up, and upload it to somewhere.
No. Even removing those functions does not help. Since you end up with a unusable UI, long before you have found all things that you have to lock down. It’s a game that you can only lose.
Do you have pointy hairs by any chance?
So, are we supposed to moderate this Funny, or are you just out of the stuff? ^^
It has nothing to do with latency sensitivity.
With bad latency you just can’t win! That’s a straight out fact. It’s as simple as that.
I remember back in the days of playing in the CounterStrike (even pre 1.0) league. I had around 30-40 fps. I changed some settings, got 60 fps, and suddenly ruled the game with a massive improvement!
Yeah, that’s right: A 8-16 ms improvement in lag changed my whole game.
And we don’t even talk about Quake 3 CPMA (pro mode) here. ^^
It can’t be my sensitivity, because I did not notice any kind of lag at all beforehand. And from making a bit of music, I know that only at 30-50 ms of lag do I start to notice it.
Take two equal players. Let one play on this thing. And he will always lose.
The ultimate test would be CPMA. The self-rendering one would win 100 to 10 (lucky shots).
Yes. The only thing where it makes sense, are turn-based, or very slow games.
While I agree on the point you’re trying to make, actually most of the medicine we know today is stuff that grows in exotic jungles (and in the nature around us)!
Also, doctors are normally not actually healing you. I mean, when was the last time you saw a doctor talk about the actual cause of something with you? No, I don’t mean the typical doctor’s definition of “cause”. That’s a symptom! The real cause is either something from the environment (food, nature, psychological things), or genetic. But instead, those pharmacists with further training go and call heart failure a cause of death!! That is so WTF it’s beyond belief!
It’s like seeing a cop go “Oh, the cause of this car crash was that big dent in your hood”.
No it’s not. Heart failure is caused by something. Headache is caused by something. Everything is caused by something... and if it’s not genetic, it always is outside the body. Full stop.
Now I can see you thinking I want the opposite of “normal” medicine, with all that pseudo-scientific shit.
No, I don’t. Neither nor. I want that people finally think for themselves, lay off the false social conditioning, and find out the actual causes of their diseases.
Then, the could actually heal!
Because getting a constant drug pump implanted in your body is not a solution, and you are not healthy afterwards.
Just as constantly taking painkillers is not going to ever heal you.
That stuff just makes you ignore the symptoms, and pay loads of cash to the assholes who will do everything in their power from you actually healing, and becoming independent of their shit.
Ginko sellers and pharma companies are not opposites. The are the exact same thing. Selling shit that does not actually help you, and make money off of it, as long as possible.
Actually, presented in the right way, it does! ^^
Psychosomatic medicine is a very interesting area. Just don’t try this at home, if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Because if you get someone to believe he can’t breathe, he will die. Even if he can breathe. The brain just shuts down anyway.
Let me guess: The “mfl” still is pretty much plain text XUL. Just in a more efficient form.
Also, how do you serialize JS functions?
I’m thinking more “XUL.so” (or .dll) here.
Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills
"Ginkgo biloba has failed -- again -- to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the herb doesn't prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease,
(Emphasis mine.)
In other news: ... ... ...
- Cars have failed — again — to live up to their reputation for quickly getting you somewhere. Just over a year after a study showed that the machine can”t fly or survive outer space,
- Caffeine has failed — again — to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the substance doesn't prevent dementia, Alzheimer's disease,
-
(I'm not commenting on the rest of TFS. Just those two sentences.)
But what project accepts code as specialized on a specific task as this?
Is there such a do-all software?
Oh, wait... there’s Emacs, of course! ^^
Yeah. You easily failed! ^^
The whole point of the contest is, that there is no “hide somewhere”. All the code must pass an inspection and look reasonable.
Uuum, that’s an actual place in the game. If you killed the dancers, they bursted into a cloud of money, like piñatas. The normal routine was, to go to the bathroom, look at the mirror, tell yourself “Damn. I’m looking *good*!”, take a piss, then go out, pay her a few bills, then shoot everyone, take the loads of money, and run. ^^
Sadly, when I tried the same in GTA, some years later, I had the military surrounding the building. :/
Something ab out the “majestic rise” of the great “OOo” made me crack up. I imagined such an animal, in the woods, standing up, gracile like a 80,000 pound sperm whale, ramming against the giant beast of Word. And after having won, beginning its elaborate mating dance with a seduced Emacs cow.
Oh man, if imagination were downloadable, there would already be a YouTube video out there. ^^
What did I want to say...? ... Ah, I know: I prefer...
Emacs! The word processor of CHUCK NORRIS!
It feels like eating his favorite morning cereal: Gravel and nails. Without milk!
It’s blazingly fast, just as Chuck Norris is... If you have completed the 10 years it takes to find out the most basic functions.
You can do everything in it, just as Chuck Norris can do everything.
And I mean ev-ery-thing! (The only thing missing, is a good text editor.;)
Business users have a lot of finely detailed and rigidly laid out documents
And then they use Word... of all programs... to do that?
That’s like drawing pictures in MS Paint. ^^
For that task, the area is not “word processing”, but “DTP”.
InDesign, QuarkXPress, Scribus and (La)TeX would be the tools for that.
The “quality” of layout that you can do in MS programs, you can do in OOo too.
There is no guarantee that MS documents look right in OOo, true. But on top of there also being no guarantee that MS documents will display right in other versions from MS, there is a guarantee that open documents will not display right in MS at all.
For sending around documents, with a guaranteed layout, you use PDF anyway. Anything else would look ridicoulous and pointy-haired.*
Plus, with a MS Office contract, you have a software vendor to fall back to when things go wrong. You don't get this to the same extent with OSS, which is why business is often slow to adopt it.
Stop spreading that lie. There are many companies out there who gladly sell you professional support. :)
I wonder if MS will ever change the application and add new code for you... Because they can, and you can afford it too.
* Yes, I laughed at my ex-boss for sending me stuff in MS formats. Then I founded my own company, telling them I’d come back when I could buy them for some peanuts. Now they were sold for a single peanut. I was there. I laughed. ^^
In the end you control your own value, what you accept, and what not.
s/etc\./me cracking the protocol, and making you see Goatse all day long/ # ^^
I am more positive about this:
I think the more those “IP” idiots get force-fed their own “medicine”, the faster they either die or wise up.
I’d go so far as to intentionally spark “IP wars” between the worst “IP” idiots.
We should browse all patents in a crowd-sourced way, and list all potential offenders. Then overwhelm the patenting companies with the lists of “offenders” until they completely and utterly drown in them, and the only way left, to make it stop, is to give up and dismiss the concept of “IP”. (Be sure to leave that door open. If they don’t have that way left, it will end badly.)
Wow, way to be superficial. But I don’t blame you, because I understand your basis of thought.
But in reality, you have to deeply understand someone, to solve things like this.
See, a “terrorist” is just another human too. Who thinks that either
a) this is the right thing to do, from all he knows,
b) he is forced to do this, but does not actually want it at all (or just lives in the illusion of being forced),
c) out of bad luck happens to be the idiot who got into the wrong situation, and does not have any own or forced drive to do it,
(For women, point C is a bit stronger and point A a bit weaker, because they are more specialized on emotional intelligence.)
So you have to find out, what drives that “terrorist” to doing what he does.
I bet with you, that it’s a combination of some religious asshole brainwashing him since early childhood,
and a very desperate life. where channeling the hate and anger towards this, becomes an acceptable way.
Now you can’t tell me, that it’s fair to punish someone for growing up in a fucked up mindset and a not so nice world.
It’s wrong to channel it to you, yeah, definitely. But saying that he is a poor slob, and that the result is wrong, is not mutually exclusive.
In fact, the ass who brainwashed him, most likely got brainwashed himself, or something bad happened to him. Or he just lives in such a strong mindset, that everyone inside would think it’s real without doubt.
Like the people that flee from North Korea, who think that if they touch something with the American flag on it, that their hands will actually really rot off!
Sure you can call him a “nasty terrorist”, and kill him. Then kill those mullas or whoever, etc, etc. But that will only mean an even more desperate world there, that will spawn even more desperate people. And in the end, would you then be much better than them?
Definitely not.
So don’t go down that path, to that low level. :)
Instead... well, do the opposite. Be a shining beacon of light that they can really respect. Show that you understand them, and even support them. Then slowly let them discover your mindset. Be someone that they can trust.
It’s interesting, how close it is to handling the bully in the club: Befriend him. ^^ I’ve done this with whole groups of big dudes who were full of drugs. I channeled their aggression against something else, and because they saw that I understood them, they suddenly thought I were cool, and wanted to befriend me.
But if you burn him, who will send you the newsletter? ^^
One thing being worse, does not make the other thing good. Sorry to break your illusion.
It’s like, you are at -5, and are now happy because there’s a -7... while you’re still at -5. Not a 0.
Wanna found a new country? We buy ourselves an island with good connections to the outside world, and try it out. If it fails, we still got more experience in those months / that year, than others got in their whole lives.
Man, I know so many people who would do this with me *right now*. Except that we all somehow seem to not have the balls to *actually* do it. :( Damn inertia.
And that’s why a “global government” is going to fuck us, hard.
Where will you go, if there is only one country? Or a group, and they are all just as bad.
To an island with a satellite dish? Just wait until they cut off the connection, the supplies, and come with a ship full of snipers, if needed.
While I agree a bit, you apparently don’t know the Yes Men.
They are known for stunts where they impersonate government agencies, and then go e.g. to conferences and look how far they can go, until the audience starts to complain.
Turns out they can go further than even the tinfoil hat crowd could imagine.
They for example presented how one could catch the shit that’s going down the toilet, and making re-burgers out of them, to feed the 3rd world. Or how slavery is too expensive and the current model of letting them work there where you don’t even have to feed them at all, is much better.
And they got a whole room applauding at them.
They aim for a seriously presented but blatantly obvious and over the top parody.
And their point is, that people don’t get the parody and think it’s actually real.
Seems they won again. And we can all laugh at the Canadian government. The only reason we don’t laugh at you too, is because we can’t assume you did read TFA or saw their work. :) So I give you that.
P.S.: That’s what I get for answering to a comment without reading more than the first paragraph. ^^
P.P.S.: That’s what you get for forcing us to go “tl;dr”. ;)
P.P.P.S.: *Imagines getting a +5 Funny anyway*
I don’t know how many times I have recommended this simple and effective solution to the XUL problem:
Just compile the damn stuff into something faster! Like a library, but a bit safer (sandboxed).
Leave the XUL files where they are, monitor them with inotify or at specific events, and re-compile them if they were changed (e.g. by installing a extension. Do not accept pre-compiled stuff in an extension. That way you still get to see all the source.
There, done. I don’t get what’s so hard about this. The whole parsing and error handling thing is already done. Just walk the tree with functions that replace the nodes with binary code or something alike. And get the dragon book if you haven’t already. :)
Actually, nobody cares if H.264 is “protected by anything”. We all have pulled stuff off of bittorrent, loaded some cracks, or had someone do that for us. I don’t remember seeing any computer without “illegal” software in the last 10 years. Even in companies!
Like with GIF.
The joke is, that YouTube already uses H.264. Someone at Google should offer a Firefox extension that simply implements H.264 for the video tag. :)
Well, I don’t see that malware running on my custom-compiled system with unsupported 64-bit alpha of Flash anytime soon. ^^
Call me ignorant, but I simply won’t ever buy into that shit. Ever.
I am more secure in my reality than they could ever be. And I know that that is lies, bullshit and greed for power. And that it has nothing to do with physical reality. Because information by its very definition, can only be proven to exist, trough the act of copying it.
Because there is no such thing as “moving” information. And so, to make it come to existence for anyone but you, you have to copy it to someone else. Who then has that information too, and can’t do anything about it. So information can never be owned by someone. Or he could’n prove it existed at all. It’s just not physically possible. Ever.
They can threaten us and go all crazy. But unless they cease to let it come into existence for us, they can’t do anything else than copy it to us.
Oh, and by the way. I just requested this page. I did not “take it”. The server did give it to me. So it would be the server’s “fault”. If it weren’t you who did send the data to the server without it asking for it, in the first place. You yourself copied it to the server. Who just took it. Like throwing your watch at someone, and then calling him a thief. ^^
Partially correct.
What most people don’t realize, is that the best thing to do to not be affected by critics, is to not react to them, and to not act affected.
They can’d drag you in the dirt, if they can’t adhere to you.
Or in other words: People will see you not react at all, and think that it’s because there is nothing to react to. If you react, they know he’s got you there.