Here's the/. story from earlier this year. They're discontinuing the standalone Linux plugin, but made a deal with Google to support a new Pepper-API version of it in Chrome. Apparently Chrome-only, because nobody else so far is implementing that API.
If you just want more "batteries included" data structures than libc has, rather than anything else from C++ as an actual language, linking with GLib is a common alternative.
I agree, but I think they used it because it sweeps under the rug the other problem that usernames traditionally have, that people get frustrated that they can't find a username that's not taken. Your site can spend time building username-suggestion generators to try to help people find an unused one. But email addresses as usernames are guaranteed not to be taken by someone who can't access that email account. Also, it's one less thing the person has to make up on the spot, which means one less potential barrier to them bothering to register.
True, I should've said in IPv4. If the IPv6 transition really does happen to the point where most end-users can do IPv6 transport end-to-end, multicast should be a nice side benefit, assuming nobody introduces a new bone-headed way of screwing it up.
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Unfortunately, multicast basically doesn't work on the current internet, at least not for most users, because most networks don't properly forward it. The MBONE, a 1990s overlay/tunnelled network, was probably the closest it's ever gotten to general deployment outside specific controlled contexts. 2001's RFC 3170 on deployment difficulties is largely still accurate, with the exception of its first sentence, "IP Multicast will play a prominent role on the Internet in the coming years."
I dunno, I'd say Obama is more powerful than Roberts overall. The Supreme Court can occasionally overrule the President, but on most days the President has a lot more influence. Roberts ain't got no drones.
With regards to Scandinavia on that list, a plus is that tech jobs are increasingly English, not caring if you can speak Danish/Swedish/Norwegian at all. Different from, say, Germany, where most companies will want you to speak at least passable German.
Google's managed to attract only pretty low-quality reviews via crowdsourcing so far. Check out some random places near you: they're much worse than even Yelp or TripAdvisor on the whole. So either they can try to figure out how to fix that, or they can leave it as a cesspool, or they can give up on the crowdsourcing and buy some editorial reviews. Looks like they took the latter strategy.
It seems reasonably smart to me. In maps/location type stuff Google's advantage is their interfaces and technology, not their ability to compete with someone like Yelp in community-building. So if they can populate their technology with a big batch of purchased content, that's probably a win.
It might be more accurate to say keyboards with mechanical switches.
It's true that keyboards with dome switches are mechanical in the sense of being based on moving parts, but they are essentially a mechanical key put on top of a membrane switches, similar to how the buttons you find on microwaves operate. Switches where the switch action is based on moving rigid parts, rather than a flexing membrane, are usually the ones called "mechanical switches".
I can only answer one of those questions, but as far as how it supported a human population, the Atacama desert is an odd place: almost all of it is extremely dry and uninhabitable, but there are several oases that host some of the earliest sites of advanced civilization in the Americas.
This particular offering seems to be in a more traditional Linux strength: Linux on the Server. OpenStack is intended for computing infrastructure, not for end-user desktop use.
And it's not like this particular fellow, Jamie Dimon, just got involved in the sector. He's got a long history doing all sorts of stuff, some of it more on-the-up and some of it more questionable.
I agree, but I imagine there are some circumstances where it could work, if it's fairly passive on the user's part (no individualized choice to report) and their country agrees to the rollout as part of a treaty. Basically, countries A and B sign a treaty that says that both countries will roll out this WMD app or whatever, and then there are some regular-style inspections to make sure it's actually rolled out. Now both countries have armies of regular citizens who're walking around with the WMD app, and can't do much about it without causing a diplomatic incident. Maybe the citizens would even get paid something to make the overall scheme popular in both countries.
If it's up to individual citizens' initiative, then the plan does lack some plausibility. I think of this as making more sense when both countries genuinely are committed to the treaty but are worried about the other country reneging, so would really sign on to plausible symmetric inspection measures.
I edit in mostly low-profile areas myself, because I don't have the time/energy to edit the high-profile ones. I'm not sure what can be done about the time/energy needed in those cases. If it's a contentious topic that a lot of people have opinions on, it doesn't seem like there's any shortcut to just lengthy discussions where people hash things out, eventually arriving at something that's hopefully good.
In low-profile areas, I haven't had any real trouble with notability police. I think it depends heavily on what you do. I mostly write articles about history, archaeology, and geography. If you write an article with citations to books and journal articles, about an archaeological site in Greece, nobody's going to propose it should be deleted for lack of notability, even if it's a minor archaeological site. At least, I haven't had anyone propose my articles for deletion. It seems like it's mainly pop-culture areas where there's trouble.
You seem to have misread my comment, by arguing against the example I'm already conceding. I do think that very large changes in tax rates may have nonlinear changes in revenue, which is what you seem to also be arguing. One example is that raising the top rate from 33% to 99% would likely not increase revenue.
What I am arguing, however, is that smaller changes generally do in fact change revenue in the way you'd expect. If a rate is currently at 33%, then raising it to 34% will increase revenue, and lowering it to 32% will decrease revenue. The decrease in the rate from 36% to 33% under Bush decreased revenue by essentially all accounts, whether you ask the CBO or independent economists or anyone else.
It's only if you make very large changes that you may see other effects, as in the raise-to-99% hypothetical. But since nobody is proposing that, those aren't the relevant cases. In the case of changing a tax rate by single-digit percentages, there is no Laffer-curve magic.
Incorrect. Any serious budget plan will have to be fully locked in to raising revenues by a lot every fiscal year. It has to be done. And anyone that isn't willing to do it needs to stay out of Washington. Keep your Galt fantasies for the Tea Party rallies and let the adults run the country.
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Here's the /. story from earlier this year. They're discontinuing the standalone Linux plugin, but made a deal with Google to support a new Pepper-API version of it in Chrome. Apparently Chrome-only, because nobody else so far is implementing that API.
If you just want more "batteries included" data structures than libc has, rather than anything else from C++ as an actual language, linking with GLib is a common alternative.
I agree, but I think they used it because it sweeps under the rug the other problem that usernames traditionally have, that people get frustrated that they can't find a username that's not taken. Your site can spend time building username-suggestion generators to try to help people find an unused one. But email addresses as usernames are guaranteed not to be taken by someone who can't access that email account. Also, it's one less thing the person has to make up on the spot, which means one less potential barrier to them bothering to register.
I'd at least be surprised by the FBI emailing me the offer...
True, I should've said in IPv4. If the IPv6 transition really does happen to the point where most end-users can do IPv6 transport end-to-end, multicast should be a nice side benefit, assuming nobody introduces a new bone-headed way of screwing it up.
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Unfortunately, multicast basically doesn't work on the current internet, at least not for most users, because most networks don't properly forward it. The MBONE, a 1990s overlay/tunnelled network, was probably the closest it's ever gotten to general deployment outside specific controlled contexts. 2001's RFC 3170 on deployment difficulties is largely still accurate, with the exception of its first sentence, "IP Multicast will play a prominent role on the Internet in the coming years."
I dunno, I'd say Obama is more powerful than Roberts overall. The Supreme Court can occasionally overrule the President, but on most days the President has a lot more influence. Roberts ain't got no drones.
Hey, it beats the Singapore exile that Facebook cofounder drew the short straw on.
With regards to Scandinavia on that list, a plus is that tech jobs are increasingly English, not caring if you can speak Danish/Swedish/Norwegian at all. Different from, say, Germany, where most companies will want you to speak at least passable German.
Google's managed to attract only pretty low-quality reviews via crowdsourcing so far. Check out some random places near you: they're much worse than even Yelp or TripAdvisor on the whole. So either they can try to figure out how to fix that, or they can leave it as a cesspool, or they can give up on the crowdsourcing and buy some editorial reviews. Looks like they took the latter strategy.
It seems reasonably smart to me. In maps/location type stuff Google's advantage is their interfaces and technology, not their ability to compete with someone like Yelp in community-building. So if they can populate their technology with a big batch of purchased content, that's probably a win.
It might be more accurate to say keyboards with mechanical switches.
It's true that keyboards with dome switches are mechanical in the sense of being based on moving parts, but they are essentially a mechanical key put on top of a membrane switches, similar to how the buttons you find on microwaves operate. Switches where the switch action is based on moving rigid parts, rather than a flexing membrane, are usually the ones called "mechanical switches".
I'm guessing it may save costs also; although touchscreens are initially more expensive, it puts all the UI into software.
Perhaps you should read more of the Founding Fathers before propounding ignorantly on Liberty and Tyranny. May I suggest you start with Benjamin Franklin on taxation and property.
'???' probably involves some kind of hokey religion that uses the mummies to legitimize the rule of the priest/king class
The only catch is that the settlement will be paid out in Trepidicoins.
I can only answer one of those questions, but as far as how it supported a human population, the Atacama desert is an odd place: almost all of it is extremely dry and uninhabitable, but there are several oases that host some of the earliest sites of advanced civilization in the Americas.
This particular offering seems to be in a more traditional Linux strength: Linux on the Server. OpenStack is intended for computing infrastructure, not for end-user desktop use.
And it's not like this particular fellow, Jamie Dimon, just got involved in the sector. He's got a long history doing all sorts of stuff, some of it more on-the-up and some of it more questionable.
I agree, but I imagine there are some circumstances where it could work, if it's fairly passive on the user's part (no individualized choice to report) and their country agrees to the rollout as part of a treaty. Basically, countries A and B sign a treaty that says that both countries will roll out this WMD app or whatever, and then there are some regular-style inspections to make sure it's actually rolled out. Now both countries have armies of regular citizens who're walking around with the WMD app, and can't do much about it without causing a diplomatic incident. Maybe the citizens would even get paid something to make the overall scheme popular in both countries.
If it's up to individual citizens' initiative, then the plan does lack some plausibility. I think of this as making more sense when both countries genuinely are committed to the treaty but are worried about the other country reneging, so would really sign on to plausible symmetric inspection measures.
I edit in mostly low-profile areas myself, because I don't have the time/energy to edit the high-profile ones. I'm not sure what can be done about the time/energy needed in those cases. If it's a contentious topic that a lot of people have opinions on, it doesn't seem like there's any shortcut to just lengthy discussions where people hash things out, eventually arriving at something that's hopefully good.
In low-profile areas, I haven't had any real trouble with notability police. I think it depends heavily on what you do. I mostly write articles about history, archaeology, and geography. If you write an article with citations to books and journal articles, about an archaeological site in Greece, nobody's going to propose it should be deleted for lack of notability, even if it's a minor archaeological site. At least, I haven't had anyone propose my articles for deletion. It seems like it's mainly pop-culture areas where there's trouble.
You seem to have misread my comment, by arguing against the example I'm already conceding. I do think that very large changes in tax rates may have nonlinear changes in revenue, which is what you seem to also be arguing. One example is that raising the top rate from 33% to 99% would likely not increase revenue.
What I am arguing, however, is that smaller changes generally do in fact change revenue in the way you'd expect. If a rate is currently at 33%, then raising it to 34% will increase revenue, and lowering it to 32% will decrease revenue. The decrease in the rate from 36% to 33% under Bush decreased revenue by essentially all accounts, whether you ask the CBO or independent economists or anyone else.
It's only if you make very large changes that you may see other effects, as in the raise-to-99% hypothetical. But since nobody is proposing that, those aren't the relevant cases. In the case of changing a tax rate by single-digit percentages, there is no Laffer-curve magic.
Incorrect. Any serious budget plan will have to be fully locked in to raising revenues by a lot every fiscal year. It has to be done. And anyone that isn't willing to do it needs to stay out of Washington. Keep your Galt fantasies for the Tea Party rallies and let the adults run the country.
Sounds like a plan to me.
AARP now defines their constituency as 50 or older. Wonder if Ryan will have to drop that exclusion by 5 years to keep them happy.