Hahaha. You’re right about garbage collection and sandboxing. But you’re still silly. In case you don’t know: They are the ones developing Qt. They invested tons of money into it and Linux. I want a real Linux OS. Not some Java abomination. And so do they.:)
And Qt is a widget toolkit. Not a programming environment. It’s not responsible for those things. The language is. If you want those things you can still write it in a non-C/C++ language.
Hell, just install a JVM on it, and you can have all the Java, garbage collection and sandboxing you want. Also there are lots of Java apps so you can stay all-Java if you want.
The other way around is not possible. And this freedom of choice is exactly why they chose Linux with Qt.
What does marketing bullshit have to do with knowledge. I remember back in 2000 or so, when a magazine did an extensive test with all optical media on the market. Including those. The gold ones lasted the longest, that’s true. But that was only 10 years. After that they all died. And indeed now, 10 years later, they aren’t readable anymore. The blue ones died the fastest. 2-3 years and they were done. Green was only a little better than blue. Which I also can prove by when they died in my collection. Only CD-RWs were better: Nearly all of them lasted 10 years. The reason was the more expensive dye. Which is the main factor here.
Of course now we have DVD-RAMs, which are also gold-based (At least the 1-3x ones. The faster ones are blue too.)
But I’m given up on the fantasy of just putting the media somewhere and hoping. Nowadays all my important data is on a write-protected triple mirrored hard disk raid, and has ECC data added to it that is checked regularly to fix bit flips. That’s the absolute minimum I’m willing to accept nowadays. For writable data, I add GIT for versioning.
I don’t think it is indicative on the general official consensus. The problem was not what he said, but that he said it out loud. That’s just asking the media to look at it. Which is bad for them right now.
What exactly stops you from doing this right now? Except for socially conditioned pointless embarrassment?:) Really. Go live the life of your dreams. People find other people more attractive if they are independent, anyway.:)
The only trust the propaganda arms of small groups and individual people.;)
It’s what viral marketing is for. So I wouldn’t be surprised, if the future would hold a flood of blogs & co, looking like they are made by individuals, while in reality they are made by big corporations. (I bet money, that Elsevier already does this.)
Wrong. They don’t try to “mislead” users. They want to push their sense of reality. You just did the exact same thing right now. And I’m also doing it in this exact moment.:) The reason we see strongly different opinions that way, is because they don’t fit our own sense of reality. It’s a fight of mindsets over resources (minds), which in psychology is seen as so similar to life-forms fighting over resources (food, land), that there is a whole field working on analyzing those similarities.
So we are constantly circle-jerking in our own soup of self-affirmation. And them, just like us, think that our views are the correct ones. This is because of how the brain is fundamentally wired. A brain is always holding a model of reality in it. It needs that model to work. Therefore it can not ever accept to be told that that model is broken. It would simply fail. Or at least fall into emergency mode (schizophrenia, religion, “neuroses”).
So, see it like this: The FOX News people actually truly believe that they are the correct ones. All their input supports it. Their inner models says it must be true. Telling them to stop it, is like expecting them to die. For the brain it’s about the same. But they are not evil because of it. They are just what they are, based on their previous experiences.
Of course that does not make it useful, since it isn’t compatible with your model. I mean you and I know that based on basic physics, they are nutjobs and we are right. Usually. But just because we accept basic physics. Which somehow did not happen for them. In the end, the ones who survive and reproduce the most, will be right, no matter what. Who knows, maybe lying to oneself is a better strategy in evolution, for some reason. Who knows, maybe we really live in a Matrix where things are as weird as they think they are.;) How can we know, when we can’t even prove that anyone besides ourselves even exists at all.
Now... no... I’m not saying they are more right. (Here my own mental model would stop me from doing that.) But, you get my point.:) Be cool. Make the best out of your life. The rest doesn’t matter.:)
THIS right here is exactly what I wanted to say. Why do people still fall for the illusion that there could be something without bias. It’s a straight-out physical impossibility. And for us humans even more impossible, since nearly all our “knowledge” relies on what we heard from others. Or have you checked for yourself if you survive jumping from a 10 story building? Of course not.:)
Spin/bias is just the effect of the inner reality model of the people. Which itself is based on their previous experiences and by far mostly on what they heard from their trusted sources. There is nothing evil (or good) about that. It’s just how it is.
If one accepts this, then every source becomes a useful one. And one also starts to accept that maybe the own model is off here and there in very very fundamental things. (Common examples: Men thinking that women would not want to have sex. Or that eating insects would always be bad. [Don’t try to combine those two, though.;])
And still, nobody cares.;) The specs are available. There are open source codecs (=encoder/decoder) for it. And nobody cares what MPEG LA wants. They gave the information out, and did not demand something in return. Now it’s too late. <stew-beef>MPEG LA, go fuck yourself!</stew-beef>;)
Hey, he’s not trolling but exactly right. This exact thing is the single biggest problem with IE. If I missed them taking it out of there (Got proof? Since MS did already lie about this more than once.), I take my statement back. But if not, the moderator is the troll here.
Well, not exactly. It does not force you to do anything. It’s the irrational need to support the die-hards and thereby reinforce the belief that their behavior is correct. Meanwhile 99% of the web users regularly update their Flash client because otherwise the sites “stop working”.
So in my book it’s the own fault of the industry, that it did not have the spine but the irrational fear to lose the worst part of their customers.
I quickly dealed with this, by making using their “the site does not work” logic on themselves: The “browser outdated” error page I redirected them to, looked exactly like the genuine IE error pages. Including a link to complain to customer support to fix IE’s bugs. To the users it looked like their browser failed. So they fixed it. Done.:)
Actually, there was no designing involved in the failing parts. The code just ran into unspecified territory. You could say the outcome was determined by natural selection.;)
Did anyone else think that we really have to thank the Mozilla team for this? Without Firefox, none of this would have happened. Wed’d still use IE6.
Firefox tends do go a bit downwards in quality, lately. But I don’t care. Thank you, Mozilla team! Every single one of you. Everyone who installed and promoted it. And the team who made the great logo and CI, that’s so fashionable that non-geek women put in on their t-shirts. *grabs web-Oscar, steps down from the podium and runs away with it!*
What reasons would that be, as opposed to those to call handegg boring?;) (In terms of sports, I’m a shooter (online) and rally (offline) guy, so if you think I care about “sides” here, it’s all in your head.)
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Hahaha. You’re right about garbage collection and sandboxing. But you’re still silly. :)
In case you don’t know: They are the ones developing Qt. They invested tons of money into it and Linux.
I want a real Linux OS. Not some Java abomination. And so do they.
And Qt is a widget toolkit. Not a programming environment. It’s not responsible for those things. The language is. If you want those things you can still write it in a non-C/C++ language.
Hell, just install a JVM on it, and you can have all the Java, garbage collection and sandboxing you want. Also there are lots of Java apps so you can stay all-Java if you want.
The other way around is not possible. And this freedom of choice is exactly why they chose Linux with Qt.
Except that Android is neither Linux nor GNU anymore, and feels more closed than open.
I want a real Linux phone, not some Java mutation.
What does marketing bullshit have to do with knowledge.
I remember back in 2000 or so, when a magazine did an extensive test with all optical media on the market. Including those.
The gold ones lasted the longest, that’s true. But that was only 10 years. After that they all died. And indeed now, 10 years later, they aren’t readable anymore.
The blue ones died the fastest. 2-3 years and they were done. Green was only a little better than blue. Which I also can prove by when they died in my collection.
Only CD-RWs were better: Nearly all of them lasted 10 years. The reason was the more expensive dye. Which is the main factor here.
Of course now we have DVD-RAMs, which are also gold-based (At least the 1-3x ones. The faster ones are blue too.)
But I’m given up on the fantasy of just putting the media somewhere and hoping.
Nowadays all my important data is on a write-protected triple mirrored hard disk raid, and has ECC data added to it that is checked regularly to fix bit flips. That’s the absolute minimum I’m willing to accept nowadays.
For writable data, I add GIT for versioning.
He’s not talking about 10 years. He’s talking about 100!
Are you even aware of what an exponential curve is?
Why not just use Linux, and solve the antivirus problem too. Duh.
But hey, to each his own. If they like masochism, I’m not stopping their “fun”. ^^
Emergency... as in “And threat level above deep green”...
Unfortunately, the governments have used them too.
And that’s how Mengele and the other Nazis got their war trials.
But they were lucky. Usually, after a war, it goes: Kill them, ask questions later.
I don’t think it is indicative on the general official consensus. The problem was not what he said, but that he said it out loud. That’s just asking the media to look at it. Which is bad for them right now.
Well, they have to make their biggest shareholders happy. ;)
Go capitalism!
Or Jagerminz S'more-flavored Schnapps.
With a small Greasemonkey script, you can completely change that. :D
What exactly stops you from doing this right now? Except for socially conditioned pointless embarrassment? :) :)
Really. Go live the life of your dreams. People find other people more attractive if they are independent, anyway.
The only trust the propaganda arms of small groups and individual people. ;)
It’s what viral marketing is for.
So I wouldn’t be surprised, if the future would hold a flood of blogs & co, looking like they are made by individuals, while in reality they are made by big corporations. (I bet money, that Elsevier already does this.)
For me, it’s the other way around. I learn more from these comments here, than from all the tech news sources combined.
Wrong. They don’t try to “mislead” users. They want to push their sense of reality. You just did the exact same thing right now. And I’m also doing it in this exact moment. :)
The reason we see strongly different opinions that way, is because they don’t fit our own sense of reality.
It’s a fight of mindsets over resources (minds), which in psychology is seen as so similar to life-forms fighting over resources (food, land), that there is a whole field working on analyzing those similarities.
So we are constantly circle-jerking in our own soup of self-affirmation. And them, just like us, think that our views are the correct ones.
This is because of how the brain is fundamentally wired. A brain is always holding a model of reality in it. It needs that model to work. Therefore it can not ever accept to be told that that model is broken. It would simply fail. Or at least fall into emergency mode (schizophrenia, religion, “neuroses”).
So, see it like this: The FOX News people actually truly believe that they are the correct ones. All their input supports it. Their inner models says it must be true. Telling them to stop it, is like expecting them to die. For the brain it’s about the same.
But they are not evil because of it. They are just what they are, based on their previous experiences.
Of course that does not make it useful, since it isn’t compatible with your model. I mean you and I know that based on basic physics, they are nutjobs and we are right. Usually. ;)
But just because we accept basic physics. Which somehow did not happen for them.
In the end, the ones who survive and reproduce the most, will be right, no matter what. Who knows, maybe lying to oneself is a better strategy in evolution, for some reason. Who knows, maybe we really live in a Matrix where things are as weird as they think they are.
How can we know, when we can’t even prove that anyone besides ourselves even exists at all.
Now... no... I’m not saying they are more right. (Here my own mental model would stop me from doing that.) But, you get my point. :) :)
Be cool. Make the best out of your life. The rest doesn’t matter.
THIS right here is exactly what I wanted to say. :)
Why do people still fall for the illusion that there could be something without bias. It’s a straight-out physical impossibility. And for us humans even more impossible, since nearly all our “knowledge” relies on what we heard from others. Or have you checked for yourself if you survive jumping from a 10 story building? Of course not.
Spin/bias is just the effect of the inner reality model of the people. Which itself is based on their previous experiences and by far mostly on what they heard from their trusted sources. There is nothing evil (or good) about that. It’s just how it is.
If one accepts this, then every source becomes a useful one. And one also starts to accept that maybe the own model is off here and there in very very fundamental things. (Common examples: Men thinking that women would not want to have sex. Or that eating insects would always be bad. [Don’t try to combine those two, though. ;])
And still, nobody cares. ;) ;)
The specs are available. There are open source codecs (=encoder/decoder) for it.
And nobody cares what MPEG LA wants.
They gave the information out, and did not demand something in return. Now it’s too late. <stew-beef>MPEG LA, go fuck yourself!</stew-beef>
Hey, he’s not trolling but exactly right. This exact thing is the single biggest problem with IE.
If I missed them taking it out of there (Got proof? Since MS did already lie about this more than once.), I take my statement back.
But if not, the moderator is the troll here.
Well, not exactly. It does not force you to do anything. It’s the irrational need to support the die-hards and thereby reinforce the belief that their behavior is correct.
Meanwhile 99% of the web users regularly update their Flash client because otherwise the sites “stop working”.
So in my book it’s the own fault of the industry, that it did not have the spine but the irrational fear to lose the worst part of their customers.
I quickly dealed with this, by making using their “the site does not work” logic on themselves: The “browser outdated” error page I redirected them to, looked exactly like the genuine IE error pages. Including a link to complain to customer support to fix IE’s bugs. To the users it looked like their browser failed. So they fixed it. Done. :)
Actually, there was no designing involved in the failing parts. The code just ran into unspecified territory. You could say the outcome was determined by natural selection. ;)
Did anyone else think that we really have to thank the Mozilla team for this? Without Firefox, none of this would have happened. Wed’d still use IE6.
Firefox tends do go a bit downwards in quality, lately. But I don’t care. Thank you, Mozilla team! Every single one of you. Everyone who installed and promoted it. And the team who made the great logo and CI, that’s so fashionable that non-geek women put in on their t-shirts.
*grabs web-Oscar, steps down from the podium and runs away with it!*
What reasons would that be, as opposed to those to call handegg boring? ;)
(In terms of sports, I’m a shooter (online) and rally (offline) guy, so if you think I care about “sides” here, it’s all in your head.)
There are at least 3 errors in my post. If you find them, you win 1,000,000 Internets! ;)
google-analytics? That’s what Adblock is for. :)