Here's a challenge for Slashdot: explain to me how standards compliance benefits the end-user of the browser.
Standards compliance allows web developers to spend less time in QA and more time developing new features in THEIR applications. So rather than Microsoft developing one or two new features per year in their browser, Every web developer on the planet can develop one or two new features for their site per year. (Those numbers are obviously terrible and asspulled, but you get my meaning I'm sure).
It's similar to being able to write in higher level languages, (Java, Python) over lower level (C, Assembly). Once you don't have to care if the processor is x86 or Sparc, or if the compiler is GCC or MSVCC you can spend more time working on the actual purpose of your application. (Sorry, I couldn't think of a car analogy)
Remember all those #ifdef's in lots of old C (And many C++ Programs)?, ever had to write the same program twice in assembly, targetting two different processors? Ever written something once in python or java, and been reasonably confident that it'll run on any machine? (Java's stil a bit quirky between JVM Versions, but they're making a real effort at least), By standardizing the "language" (Or runtime environment in the case of most new languages), the productivity of every single person who uses that language improves.
That makes the investment of time by those writing the languages or runtime environments seem very worthwhile to me.
In general, any food "...ated" or "...ized" should be minimized. Refined sugar, white bread and especially high fructose corn syrup, such as found in most soft drinks should be mostly stricken from your diet. Live as much as possible on minimally processed, natural food.
Of course, you'll no longer WANT to be able to process or remember your joyless hell of a life, But you'll suffer it for a good and long time;)
As someone who wants to build an HTPC based on a low power CPU, I can say that I am definitely interested in offloading hi-def video decoding to the GPU, being able to toss a fanless 8500 into a system with an intel atom or underclocked amd-le cpu, and knowing that 90% of the video decoding will be offloaded to the GPU certainly sets my mind at ease when I'm looking at 1080p streams.
Coder Hate like that brought by the shitty, bug filled drivers that ATI has a long history with?
I think ATI/AMD is on the right path, but they have a long history of being on the wrong path, while NVIDIA has always been more towards the middle (Not completely right, but not too badly wrong). It'll take some time before I jump to the ATI Bandwagon as completely as you obviously have.
Don't forget, lots of nightmarish IE specific stuff also "Just Works" for "The Majority", And ask any 64bit linux user exactly how much they love adobe for their support. (I think they have it now, after something like 4 years of waiting or running in emulation, or running a 32bit OS on their 64bit machines)
The magical wonderland I think of is one where anyone on any system can easily watch video online, not just the majority.
I think that in theory, the "free" part could be extremely enticing, after all, Opera, Safari, and IE could all just integrate this, no questions asked, and in this magical wonderland we could have cross platform video embedded in websites that "just works". Realistically though, that'll never happen. IE will support WMV and Safari will support Quicktime, and both will support theora through 3rd party plugins which will only be installed by people who know well enough to use firefox anyways.
well the problem with snmp in particular, is that a lot of small devices use snmp, such as routers, switches, sensors, etc. And those don't tend to get a lot of upgrades that add stuff like pgp, so instead they have to be vlan'd off to some dark corner or just have snmp disabled entirely.
And sadly, you'd see the same issues it with this standard too, because an ethernet RJ-45 plug isn't appropriate to plug into a cell phone, digital camera or mp3 player, but a 5-pin mini-connector isn't appropriate to run 25 feet to a switch/router either.
Maybe from societies point of view, but from her point of view that fixes the issue, it's unlikely the scammers will bother tracking down her new phone number just to use it. And the FBI should be the ones concerned with society and the greater good, and if they're not well... shame on them I guess.
As someone who has spent a lot of time in 'meetings' on IRC, I can tell you without a doubt that collaboration in a chatroom is much less disruptive to workflow than a real life meeting, and certainly not nearly as distracting,
Also, his 'dumb statement' taken out of context like that does certainly sound pretty dumb, but it's a transcript of a live interview and sometimes people say things without having thought their exact wording out, (Which he states earlier in the interview, is why he prefers text mediums for communication), the paragraph above the quote means that what you quoted makes sense if you aren't a complete idiot (It's definitely not the best wording, but it's understandable). he means it's hard to change a traditional organization all at once, he then goes on to suggest ways to introduce change to those organizations even if you aren't someone who would have the power to directly implement those changes.
That sort of sucks for those who are training now, to try to be in the olympics next time they are held, you still end up punishing those who haven't really deserved it.
The thing to do would probably just to make a big deal of it in the media, but not really do anything else, embarrassing china and it's government on a large scale would probably be more frustrating to them than punishing a few gymnasts.
The people writing stuff like file systems, OS kernels, and games are considered as being in the field of CS, not IT. more people understand that distinction nowadays than in the past but yeah, sometimes any job on involving a computer gets lumped under IT
maybe you mean something different, but I'm not sure how your statement relates to this issue. Afaik the LSB is about standardizing directory layouts and configuration files, and while sure under the GPL any linux distro CAN be made to follow those guidelines, almost none of them DO, so the difference between nonstandardized linux systems and nonstandardized UNIX systems is a philosophical one and not a practical one.
(Although on Linux it's a fair bit easier to remedy)
That's probably true of anything, There are always people who will take ANYTHING and make it annoying, everyone just happens to have a cell phone nowadays so people who would have been idiots with overly loud mp3 players, portable dvd players, asking you every other word on a crossword, etc. just have a more common thing to annoy people with, I don't really think any of those things should be banned by the government.
heh, I went to a 12:01 showing of TDK, during both the watchmen trailer and the opening WB logo for the movie, you could have heard a pin drop in the theater, people were incredibly silent, after that I was far too absorbed in the movie to notice anything else around me.:P
(And yeah I know, going with the hardcore fan crowd isn't always possible, but it sure is nice)
modern computer systems have a single point of control or power, the superuser. most admins need that access to do their job, but through that account they can do exactly this, disable all other accounts and change the superuser password. It can be circumvented (usually) with physical access, but it sort of comes down to the fact that someone in a position of trust can abuse it and do a lot of damage. I'm not sure how 'checks and balances' would have prevented it except maybe to not hire nutjobs.
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Didn't you hear? the flying car is available for pre-order :P
http://www.motorauthority.com/terrafugia-transition-flying-car-taking-pre-orders.html
... You planning to get arrested for something involving a 4 year old anytime soon?
Here's a challenge for Slashdot: explain to me how standards compliance benefits the end-user of the browser.
Standards compliance allows web developers to spend less time in QA and more time developing new features in THEIR applications. So rather than Microsoft developing one or two new features per year in their browser, Every web developer on the planet can develop one or two new features for their site per year. (Those numbers are obviously terrible and asspulled, but you get my meaning I'm sure).
It's similar to being able to write in higher level languages, (Java, Python) over lower level (C, Assembly). Once you don't have to care if the processor is x86 or Sparc, or if the compiler is GCC or MSVCC you can spend more time working on the actual purpose of your application. (Sorry, I couldn't think of a car analogy)
Remember all those #ifdef's in lots of old C (And many C++ Programs)?, ever had to write the same program twice in assembly, targetting two different processors? Ever written something once in python or java, and been reasonably confident that it'll run on any machine? (Java's stil a bit quirky between JVM Versions, but they're making a real effort at least), By standardizing the "language" (Or runtime environment in the case of most new languages), the productivity of every single person who uses that language improves.
That makes the investment of time by those writing the languages or runtime environments seem very worthwhile to me.
....Don't forget nutrition...
In general, any food "...ated" or "...ized" should be minimized. Refined sugar, white bread and especially high fructose corn syrup, such as found in most soft drinks should be mostly stricken from your diet. Live as much as possible on minimally processed, natural food.
Of course, you'll no longer WANT to be able to process or remember your joyless hell of a life, But you'll suffer it for a good and long time ;)
Also, I'm fairly sure that under OpenBSD at least, they include proprietary device firmware blobs, but the device drivers themselves are open source.
As someone who wants to build an HTPC based on a low power CPU, I can say that I am definitely interested in offloading hi-def video decoding to the GPU, being able to toss a fanless 8500 into a system with an intel atom or underclocked amd-le cpu, and knowing that 90% of the video decoding will be offloaded to the GPU certainly sets my mind at ease when I'm looking at 1080p streams.
Coder Hate like that brought by the shitty, bug filled drivers that ATI has a long history with?
I think ATI/AMD is on the right path, but they have a long history of being on the wrong path, while NVIDIA has always been more towards the middle (Not completely right, but not too badly wrong). It'll take some time before I jump to the ATI Bandwagon as completely as you obviously have.
Don't forget, lots of nightmarish IE specific stuff also "Just Works" for "The Majority", And ask any 64bit linux user exactly how much they love adobe for their support. (I think they have it now, after something like 4 years of waiting or running in emulation, or running a 32bit OS on their 64bit machines)
The magical wonderland I think of is one where anyone on any system can easily watch video online, not just the majority.
I think that in theory, the "free" part could be extremely enticing, after all, Opera, Safari, and IE could all just integrate this, no questions asked, and in this magical wonderland we could have cross platform video embedded in websites that "just works". Realistically though, that'll never happen. IE will support WMV and Safari will support Quicktime, and both will support theora through 3rd party plugins which will only be installed by people who know well enough to use firefox anyways.
well the problem with snmp in particular, is that a lot of small devices use snmp, such as routers, switches, sensors, etc. And those don't tend to get a lot of upgrades that add stuff like pgp, so instead they have to be vlan'd off to some dark corner or just have snmp disabled entirely.
This has everything to do with getting people used to being searched illegally.
Wrong, It has to do with getting people used to being searched LEGALLY, for no particular reason, and whenever the authorities feel like it.
Because if it's legal, It must be right.
Ahh, the memories, you're describing my first experience with RAID almost exactly, (Though I ran it on linux of course :P)
And sadly, you'd see the same issues it with this standard too, because an ethernet RJ-45 plug isn't appropriate to plug into a cell phone, digital camera or mp3 player, but a 5-pin mini-connector isn't appropriate to run 25 feet to a switch/router either.
Maybe from societies point of view, but from her point of view that fixes the issue, it's unlikely the scammers will bother tracking down her new phone number just to use it. And the FBI should be the ones concerned with society and the greater good, and if they're not well... shame on them I guess.
As someone who has spent a lot of time in 'meetings' on IRC, I can tell you without a doubt that collaboration in a chatroom is much less disruptive to workflow than a real life meeting, and certainly not nearly as distracting,
Also, his 'dumb statement' taken out of context like that does certainly sound pretty dumb, but it's a transcript of a live interview and sometimes people say things without having thought their exact wording out, (Which he states earlier in the interview, is why he prefers text mediums for communication), the paragraph above the quote means that what you quoted makes sense if you aren't a complete idiot (It's definitely not the best wording, but it's understandable). he means it's hard to change a traditional organization all at once, he then goes on to suggest ways to introduce change to those organizations even if you aren't someone who would have the power to directly implement those changes.
That sort of sucks for those who are training now, to try to be in the olympics next time they are held, you still end up punishing those who haven't really deserved it.
The thing to do would probably just to make a big deal of it in the media, but not really do anything else, embarrassing china and it's government on a large scale would probably be more frustrating to them than punishing a few gymnasts.
The people writing stuff like file systems, OS kernels, and games are considered as being in the field of CS, not IT. more people understand that distinction nowadays than in the past but yeah, sometimes any job on involving a computer gets lumped under IT
Thank you good sir, for not taking the easy joke!
maybe you mean something different, but I'm not sure how your statement relates to this issue. Afaik the LSB is about standardizing directory layouts and configuration files, and while sure under the GPL any linux distro CAN be made to follow those guidelines, almost none of them DO, so the difference between nonstandardized linux systems and nonstandardized UNIX systems is a philosophical one and not a practical one.
(Although on Linux it's a fair bit easier to remedy)
That's probably true of anything, There are always people who will take ANYTHING and make it annoying, everyone just happens to have a cell phone nowadays so people who would have been idiots with overly loud mp3 players, portable dvd players, asking you every other word on a crossword, etc. just have a more common thing to annoy people with, I don't really think any of those things should be banned by the government.
mm, Now that's a no-fly list I could get behind: "I'm sorry sir, you can't board this plane as apparently you are a registered ass-hat"
in b4 all the obvious jokes about ass-searching (Wait what forum is this again?)
So you want a wolverine movie... that isn't just a bunch of violence?
Do you know who wolverine is? Have you ever seen any media with the character before?
"I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do ain't very nice."
heh, I went to a 12:01 showing of TDK, during both the watchmen trailer and the opening WB logo for the movie, you could have heard a pin drop in the theater, people were incredibly silent, after that I was far too absorbed in the movie to notice anything else around me. :P
(And yeah I know, going with the hardcore fan crowd isn't always possible, but it sure is nice)
Sounds like Mitch Hedburg? Where's that from? I haven't heard it before now,
modern computer systems have a single point of control or power, the superuser. most admins need that access to do their job, but through that account they can do exactly this, disable all other accounts and change the superuser password. It can be circumvented (usually) with physical access, but it sort of comes down to the fact that someone in a position of trust can abuse it and do a lot of damage. I'm not sure how 'checks and balances' would have prevented it except maybe to not hire nutjobs.