Mozilla would have to add a closed-source component to Firefox for it to be able to work.
Or they could hook into each OS's native codec libraries -- IIRC windows 7 supports h264 out of the box, and most linux distros have a gstreamer-x264 or whatever package easily available ("easy" as in "will prompt to be installed the first time it's required", in ubuntu's case at least)
I had pretty much the same thing, being told that it is impossible to subtract a large number from a small one; after pointing out how it was possible, I was taken to one side and told I was far enough ahead that I could spend the class time doing my own things. That moment in preschool was possibly the highlight of my education, since then the curriculum has pretty much been treated as the definition of truth:-(
If Wired doesn't want Joe Public to visit their site, then they don't have to put content out on the vast internet commons.
They *do* want people to see their content, they just also want to know who's hilighting passages of text on their pages (because apparently this correlates with copy & pasting); as far as they're concerned, the current situation is fine.
I simply cannot understand why anybody would suggest that individuals ought to shut up and let large bodies mistreat them.
I'm not saying "shut up and take the abuse", I'm saying "shut up and stop visiting sites that you know will abuse you".
Btrfs does have a giant list of really cool features; but from what I've seen of google's needs, they're at the complete opposite end of the spectrum (I'm surprised that they're using a filesystem at all, when they could just dump their data structure on the raw disk)
Cool, and utterly annoying, and how do I make that stop?... And Tynt provides no opt outs.
The opt out process is very simple -- if you don't want to view wired's website under wired's conditions, then don't visit their website. Having an internet connection does not automatically entitle you to free access to everything you want on your own terms... (Yes, doing stuff like this might turn their readers away, but that's their choice, not yours)
I hate to read mail at cafes and other places where I'm not certain of the LAN security.
Weird, I love reading mail at insecure cafes... you can sit in the corner and play games like "match the email to the person" and "convince the businessman that you're a replacement representative for his meeting":-)
My point is that it works for google and google allows advanced queries very nicely
Google also has hundreds of the world's best computer scientists working on natural language parsing techniques, and they still need a load of documentation saying "if you want to use this function, please type your query according to this specific format" (which is no better than having separate input boxes IMO; in fact for the advanced search that's exactly what they do)
How is "no information" better than "as much information as we can give without getting our employees killed"?
Pulling out would be a symbolic middle finger to the chinese government, which might make you feel good, but they wouldn't really care about (if anything, they'd be pleased to have the pest gone); the only lasting effect would be less information for the people
I don't think it's really double standards -- when the Chinese have clearly laid down laws, and google can either comply or get out, it's a tricky moral debate; but when they don't even follow their own laws, leading to google's infrastructure (and I suspect employees) being actively harmed, the decision is much clearer
11 projects which are pain in the ass to individually try out, fail to make work, and move on to the next is not better than one project that works out of the box; the developers themselves have finally realised this, hence making "a simple replication system that covers 90% of users out of the box" a release goal for 8.5 (though it was also a top goal for 8.4, and 8.3...)
MySQL as a racehorse, no other horses can compete for speed when running around a short track (IE read-mostly website)
<anecdote>My read-mostly website started out on mysql, and ground to a halt around 500 users; after adding loads of ugly mysql-specific hacks it just about managed 800 -- then I switched to postgres with the original simple elegant queries, and it's run fine, recently breaking 2000 users with the same hardware</anecdote>
It's indecent,... It's attacking the integrity of the human body
Somewhat tangential, but I'm curious -- do you have any scientific, or even logical reasons for these statements? At first glance it seems that they're entirely cultural, and I've never understood why people would follow cultural norms without having logic to back them up:S
why have a technically sophisticated, anti-technical movie
Why should the contents of a fictional story pose any limitations on how the story is told? It's like saying we should only watch scifi stories in zero gravity cinemas, or medievil fantasy stories can only be written on magical scrolls:/
Try EVE to balance it out -- I'm pretty sure that that's more male-filled than slashdot even (in a fleet of 500 there was one girl on voice chat; if there were any more out there on text chat they were at least hiding it...)
Slashdot Mirror
Mozilla would have to add a closed-source component to Firefox for it to be able to work.
Or they could hook into each OS's native codec libraries -- IIRC windows 7 supports h264 out of the box, and most linux distros have a gstreamer-x264 or whatever package easily available ("easy" as in "will prompt to be installed the first time it's required", in ubuntu's case at least)
Modded funny, but actually, I very rarely even view slashdot's ads because the RSS feed tells me enough -- let alone going to TFA...
I had pretty much the same thing, being told that it is impossible to subtract a large number from a small one; after pointing out how it was possible, I was taken to one side and told I was far enough ahead that I could spend the class time doing my own things. That moment in preschool was possibly the highlight of my education, since then the curriculum has pretty much been treated as the definition of truth :-(
If Wired doesn't want Joe Public to visit their site, then they don't have to put content out on the vast internet commons.
They *do* want people to see their content, they just also want to know who's hilighting passages of text on their pages (because apparently this correlates with copy & pasting); as far as they're concerned, the current situation is fine.
I simply cannot understand why anybody would suggest that individuals ought to shut up and let large bodies mistreat them.
I'm not saying "shut up and take the abuse", I'm saying "shut up and stop visiting sites that you know will abuse you".
I never said it was formally written in their legal documents :-P
Btrfs does have a giant list of really cool features; but from what I've seen of google's needs, they're at the complete opposite end of the spectrum (I'm surprised that they're using a filesystem at all, when they could just dump their data structure on the raw disk)
Cool, and utterly annoying, and how do I make that stop? ... And Tynt provides no opt outs.
The opt out process is very simple -- if you don't want to view wired's website under wired's conditions, then don't visit their website. Having an internet connection does not automatically entitle you to free access to everything you want on your own terms... (Yes, doing stuff like this might turn their readers away, but that's their choice, not yours)
China was the source of all anti-logic in the world -- that is, the closer that you get to China, the less things make sense
Visiting China is like dating an angry woman?
Especially the dedicated "back" and "forward" buttons
Those are pretty awesome; my personal favourite use for them is switching virtual desktops
I hate to read mail at cafes and other places where I'm not certain of the LAN security.
Weird, I love reading mail at insecure cafes... you can sit in the corner and play games like "match the email to the person" and "convince the businessman that you're a replacement representative for his meeting" :-)
Is it too technical now to say that encrypting data requires extra calculations
Speaking as someone who has recently been providing tech support for his mother -- yes, that is *far* too technical for the average non-IT person :-(
My point is that it works for google and google allows advanced queries very nicely
Google also has hundreds of the world's best computer scientists working on natural language parsing techniques, and they still need a load of documentation saying "if you want to use this function, please type your query according to this specific format" (which is no better than having separate input boxes IMO; in fact for the advanced search that's exactly what they do)
There's still search differences though
Do note that google.com and google.co.uk give very different results for "football", which implies that they localise search results
exit entirely from that hell-hole known as china.
How is "no information" better than "as much information as we can give without getting our employees killed"?
Pulling out would be a symbolic middle finger to the chinese government, which might make you feel good, but they wouldn't really care about (if anything, they'd be pleased to have the pest gone); the only lasting effect would be less information for the people
I don't think it's really double standards -- when the Chinese have clearly laid down laws, and google can either comply or get out, it's a tricky moral debate; but when they don't even follow their own laws, leading to google's infrastructure (and I suspect employees) being actively harmed, the decision is much clearer
If you think a third-rate email service is perfectly acceptable, I don't want you running my email servers...
You have:
11 projects which are pain in the ass to individually try out, fail to make work, and move on to the next is not better than one project that works out of the box; the developers themselves have finally realised this, hence making "a simple replication system that covers 90% of users out of the box" a release goal for 8.5 (though it was also a top goal for 8.4, and 8.3...)
MySQL as a racehorse, no other horses can compete for speed when running around a short track (IE read-mostly website)
<anecdote>My read-mostly website started out on mysql, and ground to a halt around 500 users; after adding loads of ugly mysql-specific hacks it just about managed 800 -- then I switched to postgres with the original simple elegant queries, and it's run fine, recently breaking 2000 users with the same hardware</anecdote>
It's indecent, ... It's attacking the integrity of the human body
Somewhat tangential, but I'm curious -- do you have any scientific, or even logical reasons for these statements? At first glance it seems that they're entirely cultural, and I've never understood why people would follow cultural norms without having logic to back them up :S
/. is an odd crowd. Many people here seem to ignore reading the post they're responding to.
If ignorance is odd, where are all the normal people hanging out?
why have a technically sophisticated, anti-technical movie
Why should the contents of a fictional story pose any limitations on how the story is told? It's like saying we should only watch scifi stories in zero gravity cinemas, or medievil fantasy stories can only be written on magical scrolls :/
Try EVE to balance it out -- I'm pretty sure that that's more male-filled than slashdot even (in a fleet of 500 there was one girl on voice chat; if there were any more out there on text chat they were at least hiding it...)
We want protocols to be open, so that we can freely use them, but we will keep our own code proprietary.
Fixed that for you.
The older I get, and the more I learn of the world, the more I find myself agreeing with serial killer vigilante justice...
Personally I'd say most of the stories were tripe the first time they were posted...