I think it sucks that even such draconian measures don't get people to STOP RUNNING THE DAMN RED LIGHT!
There's only one method I'm aware of which has been proven to reduce the number of people running red lights: increasing the duration of the amber light. Red light tickets merely increase accidents on the approach to the light as people slam on the brakes to stop and idiots go into the back of them.
But North American stop lights are a disastrous design anyway.
I hope there are different operating "modes" for Gnome3 because that screenshot displays a huge waste of screen real estate.
Indeed. While that may be OK on a 1920x1080 or larger LCD, it looks like a horrific interface for a laptop or netbook with limited width and even more limited height.
Better yet, use Apparmor or SELinux to stop it accessing anything it shouldn't access. When I created an Apparmor profile for Flash player I was amazed by all the places it tries to read from and write to.
How far does the storage capacity really need to expand? Hard drives are in the terabyte range now, but not many people really use that much.
I have 500GB of games from Steam alone, and some of the recent games I've bought there took up 15+GB.
No matter how much disk space you have, someone will find a way to fill it up. The new low-end Red camera, if it's ever released, is supposed to record gigabytes per minute, for example.
Nickel and Diming can be ok, if it means you don't have to pony up a $20 up front. It's also ok if they charge you a nickel for something which brings you at least a nickel worth of enjoyment.
Except you'll have to pay $60 up front and then a nickel for every bullet or health pack.
Guess I'm not going to be buying many games in future.
Britain controlled 25% of the land area and population of Planet Earth at one point in time. The Romans controlled less land but the same percentage of the population at their peak.
And?
According to a Google search the US military has bases in 100-150 countries; I don't believe that Britain had that many, though it probably depends on how the definition of country has changed in that time.
Something tells me you could have sold it to the American voter on September 12th 2001.
Probably, but at that point there was still the prospect of walking into Afghanistan, grabbing bin Laden and getting out; the US government took a few years to realise what a disaster they'd caused by not doing just that. If they'd been willing to lose enough troops to do the job then it could all have been over in a few weeks, but by using Afghan mercenaries to take most of the casualties they pretty much guaranteed that bin Laden would be allowed to get away.
Y'know what really puts the 300 billion figure in perspective? That the GDP of Afghanistan is ~13 billion. If you can't crush an adversary like a bug for almost a quarter-century's worth of its GDP(and that is comparing your military expenditures vs. their entire economy) there is some part of you technique that you really need to take a hard look at..
To be fair, the US military could trivially crush Afghanistan by pattern-bombing it with nukes. The trouble is that 'destroying the country in order to save it' would be a little difficult to justify to American voters and Afghanistan's neighbours.
The real issue is that Americans really don't care about Afghanistan, but no politico is yet willing to say 'this was a stupid idea and we're leaving'. If 'crushing' the country really mattered they'd have done it long ago, but it doesn't.
Square seems to be annoyed you want to play a game, they just want you to watch it. Fine, fuck them. Get Mass Effect. It is a beautiful game with a very compelling story and good gameplay.
Huh? You complain that Japanese games 'just want you to watch it'... and your solution is to play 'Mass Effect', where you spend more time sitting through unskippable cut-scenes that don't even approach the level of the typical SF B-movie than you do actually playing your character?
IMHO 'Mass Effect' is a glaring example of the demise of gaming. It's not a game, it's a bad B-movie with no fast-forward button and a few interactive parts.
In all my years of coding in Perl, Ruby, and Javascript, I have never encountered a single bug where somebody inserted a string into an array meant for integers, or one where someone tries to compare a float to an array.
I've seen plenty of bugs in interpreted languages where someone meant to call procFoo() but actually wrote procFooo() and therefore the two hour script run failed at 1:58 requiring us to run it again from the start. I've seen plenty of bugs caught because the compiler realised that CustomerId is not the same type as WidgetCount, even though both are wrapped ints. I've seen plenty of bugs where someone meant to write 'f = procFoo()' but actually wrote 'g = procFoo()' and the 'smart' language created a new variable g while the program later used the value of f.
A compiled language like C++ would catch all of those before you actually ran the code. Obviously a strongly typed interpretive language would catch the second, but a 'smart' language would probably convert it for you, leading to a bug that takes a long time to track down.
I'm not saying that 'smart' languages are a bad idea, but there are an awful lot of things they can screw up for you if they try to be too 'smart'.
I don't know if MS now has a Windows 7 build that runs on ARM, or whether they needed this deal to release one, but if this means we'll be seeing netbooks with Windows 7 on ARM chips, it will block Linux from advancing in this space.
Why? People don't buy PCs to run Windows, they buy PCs to run their Windows applications... few of which will run on ARM.
Again, where's Windows' equivalent of Apparmor or SELinux?
Perhaps there is one that I'm not aware of, but if it exists I'm rather surprised that no-one's ever used it to block the huge security holes in Windows.
If you really want an operating system based solution, you could make a separate "acrobat" user (which doesn't have any read/write permissions), run Acrobat as this separate user and do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem.
Giving Acrobat root permission whenever it wants to write to the disk would be rather brave.
In the real world you'd create an Apparmor or SELinux profile which only allowed it to write to a few places and that would be it. Unless you're on an antiquated OS like Windows, anyway.
JavaScript itself is not problem, even if "use strict" would come handy.
Allowing people to execute arbitrary code on your machine has always been a bad idea. When we have to build multiple sandboxes around it to prevent it from doing things that the end user doesn't want it to do then clearly it's broken by design.
What killed real journalism was the concerted attempt by big business to co-opt it as an arm of corporate propaganda. It's the free Internet that's disrupting the strategy.
What killed 'real journalism' was journalists looking for an easy life. Hunter S Thompson was complaining about most political journalism being little more than regurgitated government press conferences back in the 70s.
In fact I'd go as far as to question whether 'real journalism' ever existed. There's been a cosy co-dependency between business, government and media for decades.
They're worried about their content getting copied and pasted all over creation.
So this leaves two options:
1. Someone with a subscription will copy and paste their story all over the web because 99.99999% of the human race can no longer access their web site directly. 2. No-one will care about their stories anymore becasue no-one can copy and paste them and no-one will link to them.
And, I shouldn't just blame blogs. The AP does that crap too.
Every single news story I've been involved with has been seriously misrepresented in the media.
The general argument was low resolution computer text (this was back in the 320x200 days) takes longer for the eyes/brain to correctly recognize as compared to printed text.
If you want to read fast then font resolution is not a major concern. Reading speed seems to be limited by eye movement, I remember a program I used a few years back which would display a text file word by word at a rate of several words per second, and I could read text very fast that way.
Which means that taking dead tree books and displaying them as text on pages on a computer is probably a pretty brain-dead idea.
You know, following a case for months, bribing your way into certain "circles", and so on.
I believe you'll find that most newspapers stopped doing that years ago.
Otherwise newspapers will become mere newswire and blogger aggregators.
I don't know which newspapers you read, but that's precisely what most of them seem to be these days... which is why there's no point in paying for them when you can just read press releases directly rather than wait for some journo to rewrite them in the house style.
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Mind you, it isn't their fault as such, but pissing off all of those using Eclipse is mightily retarded.
I can't help but feel that most Eclipse users won't notice one more source of random crashes on startup.
I think it sucks that even such draconian measures don't get people to STOP RUNNING THE DAMN RED LIGHT!
There's only one method I'm aware of which has been proven to reduce the number of people running red lights: increasing the duration of the amber light. Red light tickets merely increase accidents on the approach to the light as people slam on the brakes to stop and idiots go into the back of them.
But North American stop lights are a disastrous design anyway.
I hope there are different operating "modes" for Gnome3 because that screenshot displays a huge waste of screen real estate.
Indeed. While that may be OK on a 1920x1080 or larger LCD, it looks like a horrific interface for a laptop or netbook with limited width and even more limited height.
In my case there's nothing in .adobe/Flash_Player anyway, it's all in .macromedia/Flash_Player.
Better yet, use Apparmor or SELinux to stop it accessing anything it shouldn't access. When I created an Apparmor profile for Flash player I was amazed by all the places it tries to read from and write to.
How far does the storage capacity really need to expand? Hard drives are in the terabyte range now, but not many people really use that much.
I have 500GB of games from Steam alone, and some of the recent games I've bought there took up 15+GB.
No matter how much disk space you have, someone will find a way to fill it up. The new low-end Red camera, if it's ever released, is supposed to record gigabytes per minute, for example.
Nickel and Diming can be ok, if it means you don't have to pony up a $20 up front. It's also ok if they charge you a nickel for something which brings you at least a nickel worth of enjoyment.
Except you'll have to pay $60 up front and then a nickel for every bullet or health pack.
Guess I'm not going to be buying many games in future.
Britain controlled 25% of the land area and population of Planet Earth at one point in time. The Romans controlled less land but the same percentage of the population at their peak.
And?
According to a Google search the US military has bases in 100-150 countries; I don't believe that Britain had that many, though it probably depends on how the definition of country has changed in that time.
Something tells me you could have sold it to the American voter on September 12th 2001.
Probably, but at that point there was still the prospect of walking into Afghanistan, grabbing bin Laden and getting out; the US government took a few years to realise what a disaster they'd caused by not doing just that. If they'd been willing to lose enough troops to do the job then it could all have been over in a few weeks, but by using Afghan mercenaries to take most of the casualties they pretty much guaranteed that bin Laden would be allowed to get away.
No it's not. Ever hear of Pax Britannia? Pax Romana?
I believe you'll find that Britain and Rome had military bases in far less countries than America does.
Y'know what really puts the 300 billion figure in perspective? That the GDP of Afghanistan is ~13 billion. If you can't crush an adversary like a bug for almost a quarter-century's worth of its GDP(and that is comparing your military expenditures vs. their entire economy) there is some part of you technique that you really need to take a hard look at..
To be fair, the US military could trivially crush Afghanistan by pattern-bombing it with nukes. The trouble is that 'destroying the country in order to save it' would be a little difficult to justify to American voters and Afghanistan's neighbours.
The real issue is that Americans really don't care about Afghanistan, but no politico is yet willing to say 'this was a stupid idea and we're leaving'. If 'crushing' the country really mattered they'd have done it long ago, but it doesn't.
Square seems to be annoyed you want to play a game, they just want you to watch it. Fine, fuck them. Get Mass Effect. It is a beautiful game with a very compelling story and good gameplay.
Huh? You complain that Japanese games 'just want you to watch it'... and your solution is to play 'Mass Effect', where you spend more time sitting through unskippable cut-scenes that don't even approach the level of the typical SF B-movie than you do actually playing your character?
IMHO 'Mass Effect' is a glaring example of the demise of gaming. It's not a game, it's a bad B-movie with no fast-forward button and a few interactive parts.
In all my years of coding in Perl, Ruby, and Javascript, I have never encountered a single bug where somebody inserted a string into an array meant for integers, or one where someone tries to compare a float to an array.
I've seen plenty of bugs in interpreted languages where someone meant to call procFoo() but actually wrote procFooo() and therefore the two hour script run failed at 1:58 requiring us to run it again from the start. I've seen plenty of bugs caught because the compiler realised that CustomerId is not the same type as WidgetCount, even though both are wrapped ints. I've seen plenty of bugs where someone meant to write 'f = procFoo()' but actually wrote 'g = procFoo()' and the 'smart' language created a new variable g while the program later used the value of f.
A compiled language like C++ would catch all of those before you actually ran the code. Obviously a strongly typed interpretive language would catch the second, but a 'smart' language would probably convert it for you, leading to a bug that takes a long time to track down.
I'm not saying that 'smart' languages are a bad idea, but there are an awful lot of things they can screw up for you if they try to be too 'smart'.
I don't know if MS now has a Windows 7 build that runs on ARM, or whether they needed this deal to release one, but if this means we'll be seeing netbooks with Windows 7 on ARM chips, it will block Linux from advancing in this space.
Why? People don't buy PCs to run Windows, they buy PCs to run their Windows applications... few of which will run on ARM.
Atom is just a Xeon with almost everything disabled due to manufacturing issues.
Uh, no it's not.
However, I agree that ARMs probably have a place in low-powered servers in the not too distant future.
I'd rather eat dog food than use a Microsoft phone.
And you can't do it on Windows because...?
Again, where's Windows' equivalent of Apparmor or SELinux?
Perhaps there is one that I'm not aware of, but if it exists I'm rather surprised that no-one's ever used it to block the huge security holes in Windows.
Apparently, I'm using more modern version of Windows, than you've got. It's NT4 and has the feature you've mentioned. Check it out.
NT4 has an equivalent to Apparmor or SELinux which allows me to prevernt Adobe Reader from writing to anywhere other than its own files?
Uh, no one mentioned giving Acrobat root permissions. Where did you get that idea?
Uh, which part of "do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem" did you miss?
If you really want an operating system based solution, you could make a separate "acrobat" user (which doesn't have any read/write permissions), run Acrobat as this separate user and do a "sudo" whenever you want to allow acrobat to read/write to a file on the filesystem.
Giving Acrobat root permission whenever it wants to write to the disk would be rather brave.
In the real world you'd create an Apparmor or SELinux profile which only allowed it to write to a few places and that would be it. Unless you're on an antiquated OS like Windows, anyway.
JavaScript itself is not problem, even if "use strict" would come handy.
Allowing people to execute arbitrary code on your machine has always been a bad idea. When we have to build multiple sandboxes around it to prevent it from doing things that the end user doesn't want it to do then clearly it's broken by design.
What killed real journalism was the concerted attempt by big business to co-opt it as an arm of corporate propaganda. It's the free Internet that's disrupting the strategy.
What killed 'real journalism' was journalists looking for an easy life. Hunter S Thompson was complaining about most political journalism being little more than regurgitated government press conferences back in the 70s.
In fact I'd go as far as to question whether 'real journalism' ever existed. There's been a cosy co-dependency between business, government and media for decades.
They're worried about their content getting copied and pasted all over creation.
So this leaves two options:
1. Someone with a subscription will copy and paste their story all over the web because 99.99999% of the human race can no longer access their web site directly.
2. No-one will care about their stories anymore becasue no-one can copy and paste them and no-one will link to them.
And, I shouldn't just blame blogs. The AP does that crap too.
Every single news story I've been involved with has been seriously misrepresented in the media.
The general argument was low resolution computer text (this was back in the 320x200 days) takes longer for the eyes/brain to correctly recognize as compared to printed text.
If you want to read fast then font resolution is not a major concern. Reading speed seems to be limited by eye movement, I remember a program I used a few years back which would display a text file word by word at a rate of several words per second, and I could read text very fast that way.
Which means that taking dead tree books and displaying them as text on pages on a computer is probably a pretty brain-dead idea.
You know, following a case for months, bribing your way into certain "circles", and so on.
I believe you'll find that most newspapers stopped doing that years ago.
Otherwise newspapers will become mere newswire and blogger aggregators.
I don't know which newspapers you read, but that's precisely what most of them seem to be these days... which is why there's no point in paying for them when you can just read press releases directly rather than wait for some journo to rewrite them in the house style.