I wonder if Anonymous will proceed with their anti-Sony campaign.
They're not too large to fail and if enough people say ENOUGH, they will either fail or they will change their ways and bring back the Sony we once knew.
Very true. I don't know about Anonymous, but I'm certainly keeping up my anti-Sony campaign.
5) Profit!!! Well, maybe not "profit", but they stopped asking me for help, anyway:)
Time is money, and a penny saved is a penny earned.
But really though, what happens if it backfires, they install Linux, and you become their only contact for questions like "How do I install Counter-Strike on my lainucks?"
It can put Clippy into Eliza mode. "Looks like you find this document upsetting. Would you like me to set the font to Comic Sans?"
It can auto-like/dislike Youtube videos! Just put on a long cat video playlist, and you won't have to lift a mouse finger for the rest of the day.
It can be combined with people recognition and integrated in photo apps, to allow queries like "Find one where my damn ex-wife doesn't have that awful grin on her face".
It could be used by the Windows crash dialog to automatically assign priorities to bugs, based on how pissed off the user is about it!
The list you posted is a not a compilation of things she said about anyone, but a list she created of things she would want to put on unspecified people's report cards:
These comments, I think, would serve me well when filling out the cards. Only, I don't think parents want to hear these truths.
Thus, the old addage... if you don't have anything nice to say......say "cooperative in class."
The blog is otherwise a reasonably, fairly well written lamentation about students today.
No, it was not great judgement to post these things about her current class under her identifiable name, but it's not a mad woman posting nasty comments.
They have made a way of developing video web sites that work in ~all browsers: MSIE, Firefox and Chrome. This is basically the gold standard for freedom of choice on interoperable web sites -- but now you have to pay the Microsoft tax!
This is the most brilliant licensing trick I've seen since Qt went GPL.
Sure, you could have just picked some impossibly huge number that'd obviously be enough for everything.
In a way, that's exactly what they did. They picked a number so ridiculously large that you could almost give every person on the planet their own address!
You could have given every single school and library in the country not only their own computer, but a whole computer lab! You never know; some time in the future, many if not all universities may offer computer classes. For future proofing, we'll go one step further and say that every one of them also want to be connected to the internet. And just to make it even more ludicrous: we'll do the same for all high schools _and_ primary schools!
You could have given every computer in the world its own subnet! That's every single computer, not just the ones that could reasonably be expected to find uses for a network connection.
You could have done all of the above, and you're still on the class C networks! You still have the even larger class B and A networks left!
They just need to make it safer to trust the auto than trust the driver, not perfection...
Ideally, yes. But try telling someone that the computer they're entrusting their lives to is almost 100% perfect, killing only 7 people per 1B miles driven*.
Also, people can only relate to human mistakes. If you hit an elk because it jumped into the road and you didn't react fast enough, people understand - even if a computer would have handled it easily. If the elk was quite obviously standing in the road under a tree, but a computer vision based system interpretted it as a shadow and ran into it, the lawsuits would pile up. Even if the computer is a much better driver on average.
Is it that difficult to setup a similar thing in the app store?
No, but then vendors have to compile for and test on 14 different platforms and 3 different kernels. There are definitely diminishing returns there, and the 90% of the configurations with 10% of the users will be left with untested and potentially buggy. "Normal people" want Android to be Android and choose a device based on the sleekness of its ads and cuteness of its logo, rather than based on chipset model numbers.
We'll probably end up in a Wintel type scenario, but it's a noble effort even if it's doomed.
They did release drivers for the latest kernel, and they work great. However, you do need bleeding edge versions of the entire graphics stack to use them. This is a problem when combined with non-free ATI and Nvidia which always lags behind with no way for maintainers to get them up to speed.
In other words, a distro can include "old" kernels/drivers/X-servers with non-free ATI/Nvidia support XOR newer and less tested ones with the latest Intel support.
Either way, it's a reduced user experience and that's what TFA is on about.
Wow, this brings a whole new interpretation to Elton John's tribute. It does seem to be about secrets, subversion and crawling worms:
Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name
After playing around with it, I get the impression that it's not literary reading level, but technical reading level. Unlike the Fleisch-Kincaid test that uses the lengths of words and sentences, Google's test seems less concerned with long sentences and more with the choice of words. This is arguably a better way to go about it, but it's a luxury Fleisch-Kincaid can't afford in it's single line definition.
For example, searching for random phrases from War and Peace by Tolstoy returns 0% Advanced results. The simple english wikipedia page for dissection, which is readable to excess but contains some technical terms ("To dissect is to cut up a body so as to reveal its structure. The body could be that of a human, an animal, or a plant. ") classifies as Advanced.
I definitely agree with your view on basic grammar, and Google's method ensures that basic grammar about advanced topics will still be classified as advanced.
You know, maybe they could have spent some of that development money on outreach for their shelters, so that they wouldn't have to kill 86% of the animals they shelter.
Instead they spent in on a campaign for livestock, 100% of which are killed. PETA don't consider livestock inferior to pets, or any less deserving of ethical treatment.
You're partially thinking of Dr. Josephus Requa, the dentist who invented an earlier model of the machine gun that never took off. Dr. Gatling (MD, but never practiced) was an inventor by profession.
He's said he thought it'd end all wars, but isn't it just as likely that he built the Gatling gun out of the eternal engineering motivation: because he could? (and because it was cool?)
B-12 is not a meat byproduct, it's only produced by bacteria - in the gut and in the soil. Cows get deficient if they don't eat dirty grass. Vegans get deficient if they don't eat dirty vegetables.
I can see the argument for using cows as machines for converting grass into food, since we haven't really mastered the chemistry involved in converting cellulose to protein. But keeping cows as slaves to eat our dirt for us? Just let the bacteria synthesize it in a lab already.
backup programs running with root privileges assume they may read any file on the system.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a backup tool to handle being denied access to a directory, no matter which user it's running as. How did the code for this tool go? if(fd != -EACCESS || getuid()==0) backup(fd);? GVFS is an ugly hack, but give credit where credit is due.
~/.gvfs doesn't actually need to be backed up, but having to manually exclude it is a PITA and is certain to grow more exceptions over time.
Certainly, but all relevant backup tools support staying within a single fs (rsync -x, rsnapshot -x, tar --one-file-system, even cp -x). Chances are you have a predictable number of mounted devices requiring backup on the system, and thus you just need to include them. That will result in a complete backup of the filesystems, with the obscure exception of contents in dirs with mounts on top of them, which the ability to read ~/.gvfs wouldn't solve.
To summarize, the author thinks that math marketing in the form of contrived examples like "the rate at which the fluid level in a martini glass will go down, assuming, of course, that one sips differentiably" and math evangelism like "math camp" and "family math" is unnecessary. People who aren't interested in math don't need to study it, because "Unlike literature, history, politics and music, math has little relevance to everyday life. "
And as a side note, that is all this is: a guy giving money to an association. This is not Facebook supporting weed. There is no irony in that "Facebook refused to take FireDogLake's 'Just Say Now' pro-cannabis law reform ads."
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The Nokia N900 came factory default with a text editor, xterm and a python runtime with sdl bindings.
Very true. I don't know about Anonymous, but I'm certainly keeping up my anti-Sony campaign.
I bet I could learn their history in a week. In fact I did, in the one week of high school history that wasn't about the world wars.
Time is money, and a penny saved is a penny earned.
But really though, what happens if it backfires, they install Linux, and you become their only contact for questions like "How do I install Counter-Strike on my lainucks?"
It can put Clippy into Eliza mode. "Looks like you find this document upsetting. Would you like me to set the font to Comic Sans?"
It can auto-like/dislike Youtube videos! Just put on a long cat video playlist, and you won't have to lift a mouse finger for the rest of the day.
It can be combined with people recognition and integrated in photo apps, to allow queries like "Find one where my damn ex-wife doesn't have that awful grin on her face".
It could be used by the Windows crash dialog to automatically assign priorities to bugs, based on how pissed off the user is about it!
The possibilities are endless!
For those europeans too lazy to do the math, that's between 2.5 and 4 litres of bum.
Google's cache of the blog
The list you posted is a not a compilation of things she said about anyone, but a list she created of things she would want to put on unspecified people's report cards:
The blog is otherwise a reasonably, fairly well written lamentation about students today.
No, it was not great judgement to post these things about her current class under her identifiable name, but it's not a mad woman posting nasty comments.
Yes, and it's really very clever. They've already done this for firefox.
They have made a way of developing video web sites that work in ~all browsers: MSIE, Firefox and Chrome. This is basically the gold standard for freedom of choice on interoperable web sites -- but now you have to pay the Microsoft tax!
This is the most brilliant licensing trick I've seen since Qt went GPL.
In a way, that's exactly what they did. They picked a number so ridiculously large that you could almost give every person on the planet their own address!
You could have given every single school and library in the country not only their own computer, but a whole computer lab! You never know; some time in the future, many if not all universities may offer computer classes. For future proofing, we'll go one step further and say that every one of them also want to be connected to the internet. And just to make it even more ludicrous: we'll do the same for all high schools _and_ primary schools!
You could have given every computer in the world its own subnet! That's every single computer, not just the ones that could reasonably be expected to find uses for a network connection.
You could have done all of the above, and you're still on the class C networks! You still have the even larger class B and A networks left!
Ideally, yes. But try telling someone that the computer they're entrusting their lives to is almost 100% perfect, killing only 7 people per 1B miles driven*.
Also, people can only relate to human mistakes. If you hit an elk because it jumped into the road and you didn't react fast enough, people understand - even if a computer would have handled it easily.
If the elk was quite obviously standing in the road under a tree, but a computer vision based system interpretted it as a shadow and ran into it, the lawsuits would pile up. Even if the computer is a much better driver on average.
* Down from 11 with humans
No, but then vendors have to compile for and test on 14 different platforms and 3 different kernels. There are definitely diminishing returns there, and the 90% of the configurations with 10% of the users will be left with untested and potentially buggy. "Normal people" want Android to be Android and choose a device based on the sleekness of its ads and cuteness of its logo, rather than based on chipset model numbers.
We'll probably end up in a Wintel type scenario, but it's a noble effort even if it's doomed.
They did release drivers for the latest kernel, and they work great. However, you do need bleeding edge versions of the entire graphics stack to use them. This is a problem when combined with non-free ATI and Nvidia which always lags behind with no way for maintainers to get them up to speed.
In other words, a distro can include "old" kernels/drivers/X-servers with non-free ATI/Nvidia support XOR newer and less tested ones with the latest Intel support.
Either way, it's a reduced user experience and that's what TFA is on about.
Have you read Spell My Name with an S (#7 here)?
According to Wikipedia, the story was inspired by Asimov's frustration with the frequent misspelling of his name as "Azimov".
Wow, this brings a whole new interpretation to Elton John's tribute. It does seem to be about secrets, subversion and crawling worms:
After playing around with it, I get the impression that it's not literary reading level, but technical reading level. Unlike the Fleisch-Kincaid test that uses the lengths of words and sentences, Google's test seems less concerned with long sentences and more with the choice of words. This is arguably a better way to go about it, but it's a luxury Fleisch-Kincaid can't afford in it's single line definition.
For example, searching for random phrases from War and Peace by Tolstoy returns 0% Advanced results. The simple english wikipedia page for dissection, which is readable to excess but contains some technical terms ("To dissect is to cut up a body so as to reveal its structure. The body could be that of a human, an animal, or a plant. ") classifies as Advanced.
I definitely agree with your view on basic grammar, and Google's method ensures that basic grammar about advanced topics will still be classified as advanced.
the insight I gained from reading Jamey Pittman's The Pac-Man Dossier.
FTFY. The article is fantastic and really deserves linkage.
You know, maybe they could have spent some of that development money on outreach for their shelters, so that they wouldn't have to kill 86% of the animals they shelter.
Instead they spent in on a campaign for livestock, 100% of which are killed. PETA don't consider livestock inferior to pets, or any less deserving of ethical treatment.
You're partially thinking of Dr. Josephus Requa, the dentist who invented an earlier model of the machine gun that never took off. Dr. Gatling (MD, but never practiced) was an inventor by profession.
He's said he thought it'd end all wars, but isn't it just as likely that he built the Gatling gun out of the eternal engineering motivation: because he could? (and because it was cool?)
The rationalization probably came later.
Indeed. TFA is about identifying processors, the bit about exploits is just an attention grabber.
B-12 is not a meat byproduct, it's only produced by bacteria - in the gut and in the soil. Cows get deficient if they don't eat dirty grass. Vegans get deficient if they don't eat dirty vegetables.
I can see the argument for using cows as machines for converting grass into food, since we haven't really mastered the chemistry involved in converting cellulose to protein. But keeping cows as slaves to eat our dirt for us? Just let the bacteria synthesize it in a lab already.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a backup tool to handle being denied access to a directory, no matter which user it's running as. How did the code for this tool go? if(fd != -EACCESS || getuid()==0) backup(fd);? GVFS is an ugly hack, but give credit where credit is due.
Certainly, but all relevant backup tools support staying within a single fs (rsync -x, rsnapshot -x, tar --one-file-system, even cp -x). Chances are you have a predictable number of mounted devices requiring backup on the system, and thus you just need to include them. That will result in a complete backup of the filesystems, with the obscure exception of contents in dirs with mounts on top of them, which the ability to read ~/.gvfs wouldn't solve.
Link to parent's article.
To summarize, the author thinks that math marketing in the form of contrived examples like "the rate at which the fluid level in a martini glass will go down, assuming, of course, that one sips differentiably" and math evangelism like "math camp" and "family math" is unnecessary. People who aren't interested in math don't need to study it, because "Unlike literature, history, politics and music, math has little relevance to everyday life. "
They're spraying their DNA over customers, and it shows up under a blacklight?
Oh, come on! This is just too easy.
And satellites are more expensive to operate than helicopters.
Parent's point is that if the helicopter flies around on other business anyways, carrying another few kg of video gear is cheap.
a billionaire gives 70.000 $ to an association
And as a side note, that is all this is: a guy giving money to an association. This is not Facebook supporting weed. There is no irony in that "Facebook refused to take FireDogLake's 'Just Say Now' pro-cannabis law reform ads."