Since you asked why... there are only a couple areas where I truly use XML. One is to write structured documentation in the Docbooks schema, normally in an editor like XMLMind. The other main area is the rendered (x)HTML for the browsers and XSL transformations to produce it. In this system, some data (such as the results from an SQL query) might be temporarily presented as XML when used as a source document for XSL -> xHTML rendering, if the command pipeline demands it.
Some of us are still exploring ways to forge the dream of XML. In fact over the years I've been cobbling together this Java+XML+Shell bastard child of sorts that (in my biased opinion) is actually turning into a functional web development platform! I've only just recently put up the website and am still working on documentation but alas... I now present IOVAR.
Speaking of research on Java, in my spare time I still have fun exploring new ways to use Java... my IOVAR Web Platform project. I've only just recently begun to "put it out there" on the net, so to speak, and am still completing the documentation. So if you have a peek, please be kind:)... there's still lots of work to do.
Your point about Docker rings a bell. It's all about providing a consistent platform. The Unix-type systems make a great platform because there are fairly standardized locations for each of the small, single-purpose components and yet no single language is dictated. One command may be a shell script, another a C program, and yet a third is a Python script and they are all able to work with each other thanks to that standardized platform.
The rest of this comment I also posted up above in reply to another user...
Shameless plug of a dev platform I have been working on in my spare time that is built on a Java foundation: IOVAR. It's kind of meant to be the swiss army knife for the world of XML and JSON with a Unix philosophy and shell that should make any grey-beard feel at home.
I know it's not close to ready for mainstream yet and there is still lots more to do on the documentation side but it IS usable and has been quite a fun adventure to work on! I've been working on it solo so far but now I feel it's time to start getting the word out and find out if anyone else also finds it useful.
It is so not dead. The ecosystem around Java is huge and growing.
Shameless plug of a dev platform I have been working on in my spare time that is built on a Java foundation: IOVAR. It's kind of meant to be the swiss army knife for the world of XML and JSON with a Unix philosophy and shell that should make any grey-beard feel at home.
I know it's not close to ready for mainstream yet and there is still lots more to do on the documentation side but it IS usable and has been quite a fun adventure to work on! I've been working on it solo so far but now I feel it's time to start getting the word out and find out if anyone else also finds it useful.
Shoot, that's a good question. I'm not too familiar with the third-party providers since I host my own DNS and simply wanted an easy way to renew without having to modify the processes connected to my main nameservers. I put my scripts on github, maybe they can still be useful: https://github.com/VirgoVentur...
What I do is on the main nameservers I set up NS records for the _acme-challenge subdomains that points to my own nameserver (BIND) used only for this purpose. Then I have a simple script that updates the TXT record in these zone files. Works like a charm. I can share it if you think it's useful.
Your "warmest year on record" reflects only very modern history. Just take a look at this chart on Wikipedia and tell me how our warmth is both irreversible and human-caused (parent did not specifically address this so I apologize for bringing it to my reply... it's not an attack on the parent but on the usual narrative). We find ourselves in the Holocene, a remarkable interglacial period marking the end of the last ice age nearly 8,000 years ago. What we should not worry about is runaway heating, because history has shown some built-in feedback mechanism that eventually reverses the trend. The next ice age is probably inevitable; we might as well enjoy the temperate climate while we can.
My general belief is that climate change alarmists could find more widespread support if they only changed their narrative. I think we all can recognize that the Earth does and has gone through many climate cycles on its own without any human intervention. I also think we all want to remain comfortable. Though we're currently in an upward trend, we all ought to be thinking more about the end of our interglacial and the start of the next ice age. Do we have the power to control this cycle, and more importantly, should we? These are some of the questions that skeptics, scientists, and philosophers all should be seeking answers to.
I'm curious about the headline. Why would adjusting to different aspect ratios be a bad thing? Is there a downside to having videos adjust to aspect ratio?
This will be a worse experience for me because, according to Gizmodo, "the location of player controls moves to fit the video's size..." I generally keep one browser window open in the corner of the screen for playing various videos and currently, all controls and UI features remain consistently in the same place no matter which video I'm watching. If things start moving around depending on the video, it's only going to slow down navigation and aggravate users like me.
Is it possible an EMP type device could render the pump control logic inoperable and therefore leave it in an undetermined or last-used (i.e. enabled) state?
ISPs don't have to pay any more for fully utilized connections than they do for idle connections.
You are perhaps using a narrow definition of ISP. Fixed wireless operators, for example, may service multiple customers on a single wireless link. Each individual customer has the possibility of reaching the full link speed, but only if all other customers on that link are idle. Thus, service can be sold with an "up to X mbps" specification, but if all customers on that link wanted to reach that speed simultaneously then it would certainly cost the ISP more to implement.
It seems that many ISP customers are forgetting that they are using shared infrastructure.
the idea that people are going to trust some nebulous "network" with their IRA rollover, with nobody to mediate or sue when it goes wrong, is just wrong.
I, for one, welcome the advancements that begin to make obsolete the lawyer and lawsuits. You can't sue for breach of contract when the contract cannot physically be broken. Lawyers are free to transition to the new blockchain rule codification techniques and earn their keep auditing and explaining the smart contract itself.
What else you got? Supply chains? Yeah, like any company wants it's supply chain information visible to multiple governments and various other actors.
Supply chains are an excellent example. But your assertion fails to consider that publicly readable information does not necessarily mean it is publicly understood. There are any number of ways of encrypting the data stored on chain so that only the intended recipients can make sense of it. The ability to easily audit and enforce an entity's specific supply chain requirements, programmatically and with a high degree of trust, is a huge benefit to any business.
your direct suggestion to buy coins...
In the interest of full disclosure I do own some Ether and other cryptocurrencies. I am invested in the technology and actively exploring its uses. I am sorry for saying "buy some Ether" because that is not really necessary, as you can get free Ether on the testnets to play around with. Unfortunately, some of the deployed decentralized applications force the user onto the mainnet. My intention was merely that the reader get a chance to interact with the technology as an end-user, not a speculator, and my suggestion was made in that interest similar to how I might recommend somebody try a new restaurant before knocking it.
There is absolutely a lot of hype and overvalued products in this new space, and we are currently witnessing some welcome relief from only the most recent bubble. Bubbles will continue to pop up but know that this is an entirely new technological and trading philosophy taking shape that over the long run will continue to expand.
Actually, regulation in this case will only serve to hasten mainstream adoption. Only outright banning would force it to the dark markets only.
What's the point of legal cryptocurrency transactions? Good question. Here's one example: Let's say I have bad credit and traditional banks don't want to deal with me. Instead, I can safely secure and transact with bitcoins without relying on approval from some third party.
Think about the individuals and businesses that find PayPal useful. But as we know, PayPal has been known to close down access to accounts at their own discretion, so we can imagine that a design where this is not possible has potential for even greater utility.
You may be right that I focused my argument around the other use cases. Gold is less a currency and more an asset. Bitcoin, IMHO, is more a currency and less an asset, that's why I said I can agree it's not the "store of value" that some people want. That does not remove its utility as a currency, a medium for exchange with the added feature of built-in publicly-auditable accounting. I have personally used it as a currency numerous times this past year, paying invoices for various computer-related and travel services. Ethereum is another currency where the "banks", if you will (the distributed platform) provides additional code-enforced value-added services.
The technology is interesting and useful, but cryptocurrency value is just due to the Beanie Baby effect.
That sentiment usually comes from those who have little experience in this new technology arena. Understandable, but wrong. Slashdot has devolved so far that it really doesn't surprise me to see such a lack of technical information on new blockchain developments.
It's smart contract development and the more advanced use cases of blockchain technology that really bring utility to their corresponding tokens. Solidity is a very straightforward language for developing on the Ethereum platform and it has been a very interesting experience learning the nuances of interfacing with blockchains. Neo is another with some promise, using a Java-based smart contract system. The Ether token, combined with front-end widgets like MetaMask make the process of integrating token usage into web sites a straightforward exercise for the developer and an easy interface for the user.
Bitcoin has paved the way for many much more exciting uses of blockchain. A large number of business are popping up all over embracing the technology in various forms and this will only increase. I can understand the nay-sayers who believe that Bitcoin may have little intrinsic value, because though it has some small utility I can agree it is not the "store of value" that some want it to be. But look beyond Bitcoin and it's easy to find far greater applications in other cryptocurrency offerings.
Slashdot has devolved so far from its glory days that it really doesn't surprise me to see such a lack of technical articles here and an overall negative, ignorant perspective on the new advances in distributed ledger technologies. I challenge other developers here to spend the time to buy a small amount of Ether and explore some of the applications popping up before writing off any value in cryptocurrency. Check out sites like https://www.stateofthedapps.co... to see what people are doing.
I too find the friend/foe system very useful and continue to add people to the list when I find users with great comment histories that I want to pop out above the noise. Haven't reached any caps yet, thankfully.
I seem to recall that reversibility is a requirement for quantum computing. Tell your user he gets his universal Undo button just as soon as he gets his universal quantum computer.
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Since you asked why... there are only a couple areas where I truly use XML. One is to write structured documentation in the Docbooks schema, normally in an editor like XMLMind. The other main area is the rendered (x)HTML for the browsers and XSL transformations to produce it. In this system, some data (such as the results from an SQL query) might be temporarily presented as XML when used as a source document for XSL -> xHTML rendering, if the command pipeline demands it.
Some of us are still exploring ways to forge the dream of XML. In fact over the years I've been cobbling together this Java+XML+Shell bastard child of sorts that (in my biased opinion) is actually turning into a functional web development platform! I've only just recently put up the website and am still working on documentation but alas... I now present IOVAR.
Speaking of research on Java, in my spare time I still have fun exploring new ways to use Java... my IOVAR Web Platform project. I've only just recently begun to "put it out there" on the net, so to speak, and am still completing the documentation. So if you have a peek, please be kind :)... there's still lots of work to do.
Your point about Docker rings a bell. It's all about providing a consistent platform. The Unix-type systems make a great platform because there are fairly standardized locations for each of the small, single-purpose components and yet no single language is dictated. One command may be a shell script, another a C program, and yet a third is a Python script and they are all able to work with each other thanks to that standardized platform.
The rest of this comment I also posted up above in reply to another user...
Shameless plug of a dev platform I have been working on in my spare time that is built on a Java foundation: IOVAR . It's kind of meant to be the swiss army knife for the world of XML and JSON with a Unix philosophy and shell that should make any grey-beard feel at home.
I know it's not close to ready for mainstream yet and there is still lots more to do on the documentation side but it IS usable and has been quite a fun adventure to work on! I've been working on it solo so far but now I feel it's time to start getting the word out and find out if anyone else also finds it useful.
It is so not dead. The ecosystem around Java is huge and growing.
Shameless plug of a dev platform I have been working on in my spare time that is built on a Java foundation: IOVAR . It's kind of meant to be the swiss army knife for the world of XML and JSON with a Unix philosophy and shell that should make any grey-beard feel at home.
I know it's not close to ready for mainstream yet and there is still lots more to do on the documentation side but it IS usable and has been quite a fun adventure to work on! I've been working on it solo so far but now I feel it's time to start getting the word out and find out if anyone else also finds it useful.
Shoot, that's a good question. I'm not too familiar with the third-party providers since I host my own DNS and simply wanted an easy way to renew without having to modify the processes connected to my main nameservers. I put my scripts on github, maybe they can still be useful: https://github.com/VirgoVentur...
I put my process on github: https://github.com/VirgoVentur...
What I do is on the main nameservers I set up NS records for the _acme-challenge subdomains that points to my own nameserver (BIND) used only for this purpose. Then I have a simple script that updates the TXT record in these zone files. Works like a charm. I can share it if you think it's useful.
Your "warmest year on record" reflects only very modern history. Just take a look at this chart on Wikipedia and tell me how our warmth is both irreversible and human-caused (parent did not specifically address this so I apologize for bringing it to my reply... it's not an attack on the parent but on the usual narrative). We find ourselves in the Holocene, a remarkable interglacial period marking the end of the last ice age nearly 8,000 years ago. What we should not worry about is runaway heating, because history has shown some built-in feedback mechanism that eventually reverses the trend. The next ice age is probably inevitable; we might as well enjoy the temperate climate while we can.
My general belief is that climate change alarmists could find more widespread support if they only changed their narrative. I think we all can recognize that the Earth does and has gone through many climate cycles on its own without any human intervention. I also think we all want to remain comfortable. Though we're currently in an upward trend, we all ought to be thinking more about the end of our interglacial and the start of the next ice age. Do we have the power to control this cycle, and more importantly, should we? These are some of the questions that skeptics, scientists, and philosophers all should be seeking answers to.
Media keys were great because they would control the media even when the application (web browser, in this case) was not in focus.
I'm curious about the headline. Why would adjusting to different aspect ratios be a bad thing? Is there a downside to having videos adjust to aspect ratio?
This will be a worse experience for me because, according to Gizmodo, "the location of player controls moves to fit the video's size..." I generally keep one browser window open in the corner of the screen for playing various videos and currently, all controls and UI features remain consistently in the same place no matter which video I'm watching. If things start moving around depending on the video, it's only going to slow down navigation and aggravate users like me.
Is it possible an EMP type device could render the pump control logic inoperable and therefore leave it in an undetermined or last-used (i.e. enabled) state?
It's the YouTube version of Netflix's "Are you still watching?"
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ISPs don't have to pay any more for fully utilized connections than they do for idle connections.
You are perhaps using a narrow definition of ISP. Fixed wireless operators, for example, may service multiple customers on a single wireless link. Each individual customer has the possibility of reaching the full link speed, but only if all other customers on that link are idle. Thus, service can be sold with an "up to X mbps" specification, but if all customers on that link wanted to reach that speed simultaneously then it would certainly cost the ISP more to implement.
It seems that many ISP customers are forgetting that they are using shared infrastructure.
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the idea that people are going to trust some nebulous "network" with their IRA rollover, with nobody to mediate or sue when it goes wrong, is just wrong.
I, for one, welcome the advancements that begin to make obsolete the lawyer and lawsuits. You can't sue for breach of contract when the contract cannot physically be broken. Lawyers are free to transition to the new blockchain rule codification techniques and earn their keep auditing and explaining the smart contract itself.
What else you got? Supply chains? Yeah, like any company wants it's supply chain information visible to multiple governments and various other actors.
Supply chains are an excellent example. But your assertion fails to consider that publicly readable information does not necessarily mean it is publicly understood. There are any number of ways of encrypting the data stored on chain so that only the intended recipients can make sense of it. The ability to easily audit and enforce an entity's specific supply chain requirements, programmatically and with a high degree of trust, is a huge benefit to any business.
your direct suggestion to buy coins...
In the interest of full disclosure I do own some Ether and other cryptocurrencies. I am invested in the technology and actively exploring its uses. I am sorry for saying "buy some Ether" because that is not really necessary, as you can get free Ether on the testnets to play around with. Unfortunately, some of the deployed decentralized applications force the user onto the mainnet. My intention was merely that the reader get a chance to interact with the technology as an end-user, not a speculator, and my suggestion was made in that interest similar to how I might recommend somebody try a new restaurant before knocking it.
There is absolutely a lot of hype and overvalued products in this new space, and we are currently witnessing some welcome relief from only the most recent bubble. Bubbles will continue to pop up but know that this is an entirely new technological and trading philosophy taking shape that over the long run will continue to expand.
Actually, regulation in this case will only serve to hasten mainstream adoption. Only outright banning would force it to the dark markets only.
What's the point of legal cryptocurrency transactions? Good question. Here's one example: Let's say I have bad credit and traditional banks don't want to deal with me. Instead, I can safely secure and transact with bitcoins without relying on approval from some third party.
Think about the individuals and businesses that find PayPal useful. But as we know, PayPal has been known to close down access to accounts at their own discretion, so we can imagine that a design where this is not possible has potential for even greater utility.
You may be right that I focused my argument around the other use cases. Gold is less a currency and more an asset. Bitcoin, IMHO, is more a currency and less an asset, that's why I said I can agree it's not the "store of value" that some people want. That does not remove its utility as a currency, a medium for exchange with the added feature of built-in publicly-auditable accounting. I have personally used it as a currency numerous times this past year, paying invoices for various computer-related and travel services. Ethereum is another currency where the "banks", if you will (the distributed platform) provides additional code-enforced value-added services.
The technology is interesting and useful, but cryptocurrency value is just due to the Beanie Baby effect.
That sentiment usually comes from those who have little experience in this new technology arena. Understandable, but wrong. Slashdot has devolved so far that it really doesn't surprise me to see such a lack of technical information on new blockchain developments.
It's smart contract development and the more advanced use cases of blockchain technology that really bring utility to their corresponding tokens. Solidity is a very straightforward language for developing on the Ethereum platform and it has been a very interesting experience learning the nuances of interfacing with blockchains. Neo is another with some promise, using a Java-based smart contract system. The Ether token, combined with front-end widgets like MetaMask make the process of integrating token usage into web sites a straightforward exercise for the developer and an easy interface for the user.
Bitcoin has paved the way for many much more exciting uses of blockchain. A large number of business are popping up all over embracing the technology in various forms and this will only increase. I can understand the nay-sayers who believe that Bitcoin may have little intrinsic value, because though it has some small utility I can agree it is not the "store of value" that some want it to be. But look beyond Bitcoin and it's easy to find far greater applications in other cryptocurrency offerings.
Slashdot has devolved so far from its glory days that it really doesn't surprise me to see such a lack of technical articles here and an overall negative, ignorant perspective on the new advances in distributed ledger technologies. I challenge other developers here to spend the time to buy a small amount of Ether and explore some of the applications popping up before writing off any value in cryptocurrency. Check out sites like https://www.stateofthedapps.co... to see what people are doing.
There is no identifiable cause for the individual fluctuations of bitcoin value so the changes can't even be guessed.
This means only that you have not connected to enough of the signals that drive Bitcoin's price.
Is that you, Mr. Reiser?
I too find the friend/foe system very useful and continue to add people to the list when I find users with great comment histories that I want to pop out above the noise. Haven't reached any caps yet, thankfully.
I seem to recall that reversibility is a requirement for quantum computing. Tell your user he gets his universal Undo button just as soon as he gets his universal quantum computer.