JungleDisk's built-in backup can also keep older versions of files, which is great in case a file gets corrupted and you only discover that after a few days. It's dirt cheap too, $20 for a lifetime license on an unlimited number of machines.
For this to work, you need to be able to run the jungledisk daemon though, which is not an option with some shared hosting plans. Also, to mount the S3 bucket as a disk, you obviously need root access. But if you do, JungleDisk is hard to beat IMHO.
Completely agree. What OS projects need is a UI champion: somebody who is well respected as a coder and who takes it upon him/herself to pick up these UI complaints and makes them a priority. I guess the article describes something similar, but it talks about the project leader. A UI lead could be different from the technical lead though.
The problem is that few such people exist. Most OS programmers are fairly hardcore coders who don't care much about users with a different background (this can also be seen nicely in the discussion here). Folks who can program and are more interested in UI (or UI designers to begin with) aren't typically the people who want to spend day and night coding, and so they don't typically contribute to projects.
Yeah, that's kind of disturbing. It shows pictures of all kinds of people next to hits with my name highlighted. It also finds images that I've made, but associates them with random pages other than the ones they actually appear on. Looks like they need to refine that, because that may be turning people off. But it's not a bad idea in principle.
This whole auto-racing thing is an artifact of a world where energy is plentiful and can be freely squandered.
Well said! I completely agree. It's time we move on to a world where it's cool to be efficient and conserve energy rather than blow it out the exhaust pipe as fast as possible.
The trailer looks cool, but there are tons of problems. This isn't going to look anywhere nearly as exciting in reality.
First of all, they expect people to go there to watch the action on huge TVs? WTF? Why do that when you can stay at home and see it on TV? This is essentially a virtual sport, there's hardly anything to see in the real world (other than the take-off and the unavoidable fly-by).
But the reason this isn't going to be anywhere near what the video shows is safety. These planes will have to keep a significant safety distance so they don't crash into each other. So no high-powered chases or planes flying through overlapping polygons. The other planes will only be tiny specks somewhere in the distance.
Also, do you know how far the safety distance is behind a commercial plane? That's miles of airspace that can't be used due to turbulence in the plane's wake. Now imagine what the wake of a rocket plane is like!
And finally, one word: smoke! These engines don't burn nearly as clean as the nice CGI suggests, ever seen a Shuttle launch? There will be tons of smoke, making it hard to see much, and increasing the safety distances even further.
So apart from this being a hugely wasteful kind of sport (undoubtedly the most wasteful ever), it's also going to be boring as hell. Call me a nay-sayer, but I can't see this take off (no pun intended, haha).
It has a very logical structure. Learning German might actually help you with maths.
It does? I'm a native speaker of German, and I can't say it's very logical. Parts of it are, yes, but it's nowhere near mathematical. And it's a really tough language to learn as a second language because of all those things you have to know (the grammatical sex of every noun, the many irregular verbs, etc.).
Okay, but how does the price floor play into this? If the manufacturer doesn't want the product to be sold below $100, then they can either set a price floor or not sell to Wal-Mart at $75. Both decisions will make Wal-Mart look for another product, so I don't see where the difference is. As long as the product is sold to distributors and retailers at the same price, it's simply a matter of competition on their respective level.
It's the manufacturer that sets the price floor, not the competition. That's also why I don't get why that's even of interest. If I manufacture WonderGizmo3000, and only sell it to retailers at price X, why do I care if they sell it for X/2? It's not my profit that's lost. Well, at least not immediately - I can see how "cheapening" a product can be a bad thing. But there are lots of other factors that will also play into that, minimum price can't be the only one.
I just don't get why manufacturers would want to do this.
If I understand this correctly, the request comes from the user's browser, and so also from the same IP. But a timeout would help (it's just less convenient).
But that makes me wonder if browsers could do something against this. If there's an iframe that is not visible to the user, and that tries to request a page from somewhere else, don't send cookies. Okay, maybe it's a bit more involved, but shouldn't this be doable on the browser side?
Exactly. It's like claiming that having your name and date of birth in your passport is a privacy issue.
This is the kind of reaction that will make the music industry reconsider this whole DRM-free thing, and certainly hurt other companies' moves in that direction. And it shows what's really behind a lot of that anti-DRM rhetoric.
unreported contacts with foreign nationals Heck, I am a foreign national. Am I supposed to turn in all my students now?
unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials How am I supposed to know that? Same as with travel to those evil foreign countries, they're not going to tell me that. Or if they tell me, how do I know it's "unreported" (to whom, anyway?)?
If this is for real, it's McCarthy-style stupidity all over again. And you'd think that wasn't that long ago that people wouldn't remember.
trianglman's point was not about copyright or piracy per se, but about its implications. If Microsoft is not the supplier of Windows if the DVDs are pressed or the harddisks installed by other companies in Asia, then you can argue that Microsoft is not the supplier of the software for people who pirate it, either. Of course, this does not make any sense either, because AT&T wasn't suing Microsoft's customers or people who had pirated Windows. But at least argue against the right argument;)
That sums up the case for AAC really well. The only thing I would like to add is that AAC was developed to use as little power as possible when decoding, so it also gives you better battery life. In the long run, we might see players ditch MP3 completely and only support AAC - no more licensing fees, and it runs longer, too.
You can't choose the color of your skin, but you can choose to dress decently, wash your hair, and invest a though or two into your website. These are different things. What else should I judge you by, if I don't have other information? And I have to judge you when I need to decide whether to do business with you, or go somewhere else. Perfect world or not, you will always be judged. Hopefully only by the things you can do something about, but you better be aware of those things.
This has nothing at all to do with the CIA World Factbook. This is not just about collecting data (which it does, of course, and more data over longer time than the Factbook), but about understanding the world through that data. A collection of data is worthless if it isn't used to figure out how to help people in Africa, for example. Rosling shows very clearly that Africa isn't just starving children, and that development aid therefore must be adapted to the exact population it is for. He also has a lot of interesting things to say about the developments in Asia, how health care and economy are connected, etc.
Don't dismiss this without knowing anything about it.
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Yeah, that never gets old. No wonder nobody wants to go into CS these days. By projecting an image like this, we make the field really attractive.
JungleDisk's built-in backup can also keep older versions of files, which is great in case a file gets corrupted and you only discover that after a few days. It's dirt cheap too, $20 for a lifetime license on an unlimited number of machines.
For this to work, you need to be able to run the jungledisk daemon though, which is not an option with some shared hosting plans. Also, to mount the S3 bucket as a disk, you obviously need root access. But if you do, JungleDisk is hard to beat IMHO.
Completely agree. What OS projects need is a UI champion: somebody who is well respected as a coder and who takes it upon him/herself to pick up these UI complaints and makes them a priority. I guess the article describes something similar, but it talks about the project leader. A UI lead could be different from the technical lead though.
The problem is that few such people exist. Most OS programmers are fairly hardcore coders who don't care much about users with a different background (this can also be seen nicely in the discussion here). Folks who can program and are more interested in UI (or UI designers to begin with) aren't typically the people who want to spend day and night coding, and so they don't typically contribute to projects.
Yeah, that's kind of disturbing. It shows pictures of all kinds of people next to hits with my name highlighted. It also finds images that I've made, but associates them with random pages other than the ones they actually appear on. Looks like they need to refine that, because that may be turning people off. But it's not a bad idea in principle.
Which is exactly what the majority of CMSs do today. They treat the DB as dumb storage, and make very little use of its capabilities.
Look at the packaging for a few screws!
So true!
This whole auto-racing thing is an artifact of a world where energy is plentiful and can be freely squandered.
Well said! I completely agree. It's time we move on to a world where it's cool to be efficient and conserve energy rather than blow it out the exhaust pipe as fast as possible.
The trailer looks cool, but there are tons of problems. This isn't going to look anywhere nearly as exciting in reality.
First of all, they expect people to go there to watch the action on huge TVs? WTF? Why do that when you can stay at home and see it on TV? This is essentially a virtual sport, there's hardly anything to see in the real world (other than the take-off and the unavoidable fly-by).
But the reason this isn't going to be anywhere near what the video shows is safety. These planes will have to keep a significant safety distance so they don't crash into each other. So no high-powered chases or planes flying through overlapping polygons. The other planes will only be tiny specks somewhere in the distance.
Also, do you know how far the safety distance is behind a commercial plane? That's miles of airspace that can't be used due to turbulence in the plane's wake. Now imagine what the wake of a rocket plane is like!
And finally, one word: smoke! These engines don't burn nearly as clean as the nice CGI suggests, ever seen a Shuttle launch? There will be tons of smoke, making it hard to see much, and increasing the safety distances even further.
So apart from this being a hugely wasteful kind of sport (undoubtedly the most wasteful ever), it's also going to be boring as hell. Call me a nay-sayer, but I can't see this take off (no pun intended, haha).
This is the second story today on the Mars Lander. How many more will we see? Sure it's interesting, but Phoenix can't be the only news on this site.
How about German?
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It has a very logical structure. Learning German might actually help you with maths.
It does? I'm a native speaker of German, and I can't say it's very logical. Parts of it are, yes, but it's nowhere near mathematical. And it's a really tough language to learn as a second language because of all those things you have to know (the grammatical sex of every noun, the many irregular verbs, etc.).
Yeah, it seems Taco is having a bit of an identity crisis. Either that, or he's just grumpy about having to work at such an ungodly early hour.
Okay, but how does the price floor play into this? If the manufacturer doesn't want the product to be sold below $100, then they can either set a price floor or not sell to Wal-Mart at $75. Both decisions will make Wal-Mart look for another product, so I don't see where the difference is. As long as the product is sold to distributors and retailers at the same price, it's simply a matter of competition on their respective level.
It's the manufacturer that sets the price floor, not the competition. That's also why I don't get why that's even of interest. If I manufacture WonderGizmo3000, and only sell it to retailers at price X, why do I care if they sell it for X/2? It's not my profit that's lost. Well, at least not immediately - I can see how "cheapening" a product can be a bad thing. But there are lots of other factors that will also play into that, minimum price can't be the only one.
I just don't get why manufacturers would want to do this.
If I understand this correctly, the request comes from the user's browser, and so also from the same IP. But a timeout would help (it's just less convenient).
But that makes me wonder if browsers could do something against this. If there's an iframe that is not visible to the user, and that tries to request a page from somewhere else, don't send cookies. Okay, maybe it's a bit more involved, but shouldn't this be doable on the browser side?
Exactly. It's like claiming that having your name and date of birth in your passport is a privacy issue.
This is the kind of reaction that will make the music industry reconsider this whole DRM-free thing, and certainly hurt other companies' moves in that direction. And it shows what's really behind a lot of that anti-DRM rhetoric.
I couldn't agree more.
unreported contacts with foreign nationals
Heck, I am a foreign national. Am I supposed to turn in all my students now?
unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials
How am I supposed to know that? Same as with travel to those evil foreign countries, they're not going to tell me that. Or if they tell me, how do I know it's "unreported" (to whom, anyway?)?
If this is for real, it's McCarthy-style stupidity all over again. And you'd think that wasn't that long ago that people wouldn't remember.
Martha Stewart would be proud!
Of course it was ScuttleMonkey's point. Sorry for mixing up the editor with the submitter.
trianglman's point was not about copyright or piracy per se, but about its implications. If Microsoft is not the supplier of Windows if the DVDs are pressed or the harddisks installed by other companies in Asia, then you can argue that Microsoft is not the supplier of the software for people who pirate it, either. Of course, this does not make any sense either, because AT&T wasn't suing Microsoft's customers or people who had pirated Windows. But at least argue against the right argument ;)
The Second Civil War? Brilliant movie. But it's Idaho, not Montana ...
That sums up the case for AAC really well. The only thing I would like to add is that AAC was developed to use as little power as possible when decoding, so it also gives you better battery life. In the long run, we might see players ditch MP3 completely and only support AAC - no more licensing fees, and it runs longer, too.
You can't choose the color of your skin, but you can choose to dress decently, wash your hair, and invest a though or two into your website. These are different things. What else should I judge you by, if I don't have other information? And I have to judge you when I need to decide whether to do business with you, or go somewhere else. Perfect world or not, you will always be judged. Hopefully only by the things you can do something about, but you better be aware of those things.
This has nothing at all to do with the CIA World Factbook. This is not just about collecting data (which it does, of course, and more data over longer time than the Factbook), but about understanding the world through that data. A collection of data is worthless if it isn't used to figure out how to help people in Africa, for example. Rosling shows very clearly that Africa isn't just starving children, and that development aid therefore must be adapted to the exact population it is for. He also has a lot of interesting things to say about the developments in Asia, how health care and economy are connected, etc.
Don't dismiss this without knowing anything about it.