Since the U.S. has encouraged patent filing, all tech news is starting to trend toward it.
How about changing the mechanism to:
1. Company doesn't patent some arcane, small mechanism in a product of theirs. 2. You, yourself, file for said patent. You know, just for the hell of it. 3. PRO^H^H^HPost an article online saying how dumb the subject company was for not patenting it first.
It will be the new Rick Roll, or whatever referential point you want to use in this sentence.
A while back I actually wrote a tool for Rickrolling people several months ago: http://brokenthings.org/ based on poisoned link redirection. It works well enough. The only way to avoid redirector tricks is to follow redirectors all the way to The Actual Page and then use *that* as the reference. Then, at least if the link is poisoned, it'll be obvious.
Very good point. I believe that the entire point of FB doing this in the first place was to remove responsibility from their end.
<humor> Not to use an overused and tacky quote, but, "Mission Accomplished." </humor>
That argument comes up frequently and is usually an attempt to justify swap algorithms that aren't aggressive enough at paging out the RAM. The problem is that a lot of things go in and out of RAM frequently and you will notice a significant drop in performance if that's happening regularly.
I remember spending many hours trying to figure out how I could get those last few kb of RAM freed up so that I could run my fancy new DOS game that really had to have either 512kb or 640KB of lowmem RAM. When I wasn't gaming it didn't make any difference, but the program wouldn't load at all without it. Same basic deal here, while it's gotten a lot easier for Windows to manage memory than it was for DOS, there really isn't any good way of the OS taking up ~12% of the RAM when the system is largely idle and dropping back to something reasonable when the resources are in demand. Especially when the demand is short lived.
What you say makes perfect sense. What I've never understood is why the overall "issue", if you want to call it that, hasn't been addressed in years.
Since memory has become virtual and more freely available for allocation, even when it's not ACTIVELY in use, a problem has developed that not many have seemed to resolve.
Okay, program X allocates 50MB of memory. It only actively uses 1-2MB of it. The rest is still considered paged, but allocated. Why don't developers (including the OS developer) just address the issue of "pre-over-allocation"? If your program allocates 2MB and needs an additional 500K, allocate the additional 500K at that time.
I've observed this for years and it drives me crazy. What am I missing here that makes me an idiot for thinking this?
How can we not be surprised when off the shelf tech used as military attack machines are compromised. We must be still the most stupid intelligent race in the universe. When will we learn ?
When we have no choice. And I mean that in the most literal sense.
Guess I'm not the only one that sees a lot of issues with poor security and remote controlled killing robots? If we can't even detect when people infiltrate our networks, what's to say we could figure out who uses our own weapons remotely against us?
I don't think poor cyber security and giant killing robots goes hand in hand.
...or might just be a pre-release of info to cover the future event of random drone misfires or failures. Blame the computers, not the Humans.
Let's face it; this info would NOT have been released unless someone has something to gain from it.
4) The site is very sluggish. When not signed in, the comment system is barely manageable and signing in doesn't take me back to the page from which I decided to sign in... it takes me to the home page!
Problem with metamod, in my head, is that you get a list that has some moderated comments and (usually) the majority of the comments weren't moderated in the first place. What is that supposed to do? It isn't in the FAQ.
Metamod should only get a list of comments that were moderated in the first place. IMHO.
Well... everything except for the massive Flame War he started.
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
I wonder if Apple was expecting a reaction of this magnitude when it initiated this tit-for-tat?
I don't believe they got to that point of 'thought'. Everyone must flex their nu#$, win or lose.
Lose = we'll flex to win more later. Win = power is awesome; sit on laurels for a month or two; wait for next competitor's move to flex in the direction of.
Is this some kind of strategy Samsung and Apple help each other to get more attention and more profit?
Samsung was banned from the countries because of supposed patent issues, so it's a cock length contest. If they aren't allowed in, no one else should be, either.
It's sort of like telling on your neighbor that has tall grass when you were cited a week earlier for grass that was too tall, breaking city ordinance.
3. You don't read emotion from the developers at all and read their code and specifications without it. This is tremendously valuable because you don't make any assumptions about their code (as an a "aspy" I'm always asking developers is THAT what you really meant). As an aspy we know damn well most NTs don't actually mean exactly what they say - so we either apply it and show that the literal application is BUNK or we ask for clarification.
What has been the bane of my existence at most places of work is most peoples' inability to tolerate that. They always want things understood exactly as it comes out of their mouth, no questions, no alternatives. Just crystal clear.
Yeah, that doesn't happen. The alternative is that if they do answer questions and you -do- eventually find the true meaning or statement, their anger levels go up. Since I have the ability to read body language very well (lack of friends as a kid), I can talk with people and sense when their level of anger rises (before it's even a problem). Then, I know I'm getting closer to the "truth" or "heart of the issue". Truth hurts, apparently, but it makes me perfectly happy.
Call me a weirdo that doesn't communicate like all the others or look hot to girls and I'll say, "Yep! That's me!" - no offense taken. Truth is truth:)
I would say that testing your own code is the worst thing to do, as you know how it works and will (possibly subconsciously) input data which will either work, or bomb out gracefully. By all means to some quick debugging yourself, but you need fresh eyes to test your system properly.
It just so happens that aspies seem to perform this task remarkably well.
I found a bug in a Java servlet at a fortune-500 company that a TEAM of over 50 software engineers spent MONTHS of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment to try and find it, in order to fix it. Really, they only allowed a memory leak to last longer until the garbage collect cycled into a non-stop loop.
I found the bug in less than 5 minutes. Guess what happened to me after I found it? Anyone who didn't guess that I was "let go for mysterious reasons" doesn't have Asperger's;)
Yes, I know. My question was whether it was only appropriate for persons with Asperger's syndrome to use the term, much like it is now somewhat only appropriate for black people to use the word "nigger".
I guess so. If others around me call me an "aspie", it bothers the crap out of me. I just hate the term, not because of what it means, but because of the sound of the word. I know, I know. I'm weird. I hate the word "inappropriate", as well. It's because it was overused on me when I was in school. Call me a bad kid or a jerk that isn't following the rules all you want, but don't call me a repetitively used term that isn't necessarily true -OR- fitting of the components.
If someone else wants to be called an "aspie", I grind my teeth when I say it, but application of the term to them doesn't matter. The person is whatever they want to be called as long as it isn't false.
I only have ethical issues with calling people something that they aren't in order to get ahead in life or take advantage of others (e.g. a moron who calls themself "genius" or or a genius that calls themself a "moron").
If you wanna call me "white stuffy-nosed English-German-American Indian mix boy", go for it. It's what I am. lol
Interesting logic, but maybe I should figure out how to start an insurance company of my own, with only one benefit group, and 15 members (family). Then I'm up to the law.
...but is this coincidental or scientifically-correct information? How often do the electron counts rise when there are no earthquake events? How often do the electron counts rise when there is an earthquake in an area on the globe nowhere near yours? Does the electron rate rise because of an impending earthquake or does an electron rise show that something is happening with the sun or other astral body that is sometimes-yes and sometimes-no with an earthquake trigger?
Oh, wait, it says in the article that they are already questioning this.
Yeah, it unfortunately comes installed on many OTS machines, just like a Norton teaser edition does. It's my first uninstall whenever I give a user's machine a "checkup."
You should see AVG. On a Windows XP machine (won't mention whose), the kernel showed a 79MB virtual memory usage before AVG, and a 171MB usage after install and update. This is the "System" process, not all processes, mind ya. The rest took the machine well over the previously good 256MB of RAM limit. And it's DDR, not DDR2/3, so it's less expensive to get a new machine. /ramble
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Since the U.S. has encouraged patent filing, all tech news is starting to trend toward it.
How about changing the mechanism to:
1. Company doesn't patent some arcane, small mechanism in a product of theirs.
2. You, yourself, file for said patent. You know, just for the hell of it.
3. PRO^H^H^HPost an article online saying how dumb the subject company was for not patenting it first.
It will be the new Rick Roll, or whatever referential point you want to use in this sentence.
A while back I actually wrote a tool for Rickrolling people several months ago:
http://brokenthings.org/
based on poisoned link redirection. It works well enough. The only way to avoid redirector tricks is to follow redirectors all the way to The Actual Page and then use *that* as the reference. Then, at least if the link is poisoned, it'll be obvious.
Very good point. I believe that the entire point of FB doing this in the first place was to remove responsibility from their end.
<humor>
Not to use an overused and tacky quote, but, "Mission Accomplished."
</humor>
That argument comes up frequently and is usually an attempt to justify swap algorithms that aren't aggressive enough at paging out the RAM. The problem is that a lot of things go in and out of RAM frequently and you will notice a significant drop in performance if that's happening regularly.
I remember spending many hours trying to figure out how I could get those last few kb of RAM freed up so that I could run my fancy new DOS game that really had to have either 512kb or 640KB of lowmem RAM. When I wasn't gaming it didn't make any difference, but the program wouldn't load at all without it. Same basic deal here, while it's gotten a lot easier for Windows to manage memory than it was for DOS, there really isn't any good way of the OS taking up ~12% of the RAM when the system is largely idle and dropping back to something reasonable when the resources are in demand. Especially when the demand is short lived.
What you say makes perfect sense. What I've never understood is why the overall "issue", if you want to call it that, hasn't been addressed in years.
Since memory has become virtual and more freely available for allocation, even when it's not ACTIVELY in use, a problem has developed that not many have seemed to resolve.
Okay, program X allocates 50MB of memory. It only actively uses 1-2MB of it. The rest is still considered paged, but allocated. Why don't developers (including the OS developer) just address the issue of "pre-over-allocation"? If your program allocates 2MB and needs an additional 500K, allocate the additional 500K at that time.
I've observed this for years and it drives me crazy. What am I missing here that makes me an idiot for thinking this?
Why not build a weapons platform from Lego's.
How can we not be surprised when off the shelf tech used as military attack machines are compromised. We must be still the most stupid intelligent race in the universe. When will we learn ?
When we have no choice. And I mean that in the most literal sense.
Guess I'm not the only one that sees a lot of issues with poor security and remote controlled killing robots? If we can't even detect when people infiltrate our networks, what's to say we could figure out who uses our own weapons remotely against us?
I don't think poor cyber security and giant killing robots goes hand in hand.
...or might just be a pre-release of info to cover the future event of random drone misfires or failures. Blame the computers, not the Humans.
Let's face it; this info would NOT have been released unless someone has something to gain from it.
4) The site is very sluggish. When not signed in, the comment system is barely manageable and signing in doesn't take me back to the page from which I decided to sign in... it takes me to the home page!
Hear, hear. That has kicked my butt many times.
Problem with metamod, in my head, is that you get a list that has some moderated comments and (usually) the majority of the comments weren't moderated in the first place. What is that supposed to do? It isn't in the FAQ.
Metamod should only get a list of comments that were moderated in the first place. IMHO.
I worked it out half way.
Then I worked out half of the remaining math.
Then I...
...died.
Well... everything except for the massive Flame War he started.
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
That "NO CARRIER" thing hasn't been funny in 20 years.
That's why it's funny now! :)
I wonder if Apple was expecting a reaction of this magnitude when it initiated this tit-for-tat?
I don't believe they got to that point of 'thought'. Everyone must flex their nu#$, win or lose.
Lose = we'll flex to win more later.
Win = power is awesome; sit on laurels for a month or two; wait for next competitor's move to flex in the direction of.
Would you both kindly shut the fuck up?
Thank you.
Message from both to you:
Kindly? No.
Forcibly? Meh. Naah.
:->
iPhone is good.
Android is better.
Android > iPhone
Apple is an asshole corporation
Android is sold through different corporations, asshole or not
Android diversity > Apple diversity.
well, now they have higher utilization, so they are actually cheaper
That's enough of beancounter logic for today...
My Statement: Beancounter logic makes my blood boil.
Do their lawyers cover that? Oh, wait, of course they do. Silly me for asking. :->
Is this some kind of strategy Samsung and Apple help each other to get more attention and more profit?
Samsung was banned from the countries because of supposed patent issues, so it's a cock length contest. If they aren't allowed in, no one else should be, either.
It's sort of like telling on your neighbor that has tall grass when you were cited a week earlier for grass that was too tall, breaking city ordinance.
Needs a "popcorn" tag!
Stuff like this keeps Slashdot in business... Way better than discussing the betterment of humanity with Ipen Sources.
Can your stomach hold that much popcorn? Oh, wait, this aren't U.S. cases. Never mind :)
Amen on all of that.
I have something to add on #3, though:
3. You don't read emotion from the developers at all and read their code and specifications without it. This is tremendously valuable because you don't make any assumptions about their code (as an a "aspy" I'm always asking developers is THAT what you really meant). As an aspy we know damn well most NTs don't actually mean exactly what they say - so we either apply it and show that the literal application is BUNK or we ask for clarification.
What has been the bane of my existence at most places of work is most peoples' inability to tolerate that. They always want things understood exactly as it comes out of their mouth, no questions, no alternatives. Just crystal clear.
Yeah, that doesn't happen. The alternative is that if they do answer questions and you -do- eventually find the true meaning or statement, their anger levels go up. Since I have the ability to read body language very well (lack of friends as a kid), I can talk with people and sense when their level of anger rises (before it's even a problem). Then, I know I'm getting closer to the "truth" or "heart of the issue". Truth hurts, apparently, but it makes me perfectly happy.
Call me a weirdo that doesn't communicate like all the others or look hot to girls and I'll say, "Yep! That's me!" - no offense taken. Truth is truth :)
I would say that testing your own code is the worst thing to do, as you know how it works and will (possibly subconsciously) input data which will either work, or bomb out gracefully. By all means to some quick debugging yourself, but you need fresh eyes to test your system properly.
It just so happens that aspies seem to perform this task remarkably well.
I found a bug in a Java servlet at a fortune-500 company that a TEAM of over 50 software engineers spent MONTHS of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment to try and find it, in order to fix it. Really, they only allowed a memory leak to last longer until the garbage collect cycled into a non-stop loop.
I found the bug in less than 5 minutes. Guess what happened to me after I found it? Anyone who didn't guess that I was "let go for mysterious reasons" doesn't have Asperger's ;)
Yes, I know. My question was whether it was only appropriate for persons with Asperger's syndrome to use the term, much like it is now somewhat only appropriate for black people to use the word "nigger".
I guess so. If others around me call me an "aspie", it bothers the crap out of me. I just hate the term, not because of what it means, but because of the sound of the word. I know, I know. I'm weird. I hate the word "inappropriate", as well. It's because it was overused on me when I was in school. Call me a bad kid or a jerk that isn't following the rules all you want, but don't call me a repetitively used term that isn't necessarily true -OR- fitting of the components.
If someone else wants to be called an "aspie", I grind my teeth when I say it, but application of the term to them doesn't matter. The person is whatever they want to be called as long as it isn't false.
I only have ethical issues with calling people something that they aren't in order to get ahead in life or take advantage of others (e.g. a moron who calls themself "genius" or or a genius that calls themself a "moron").
If you wanna call me "white stuffy-nosed English-German-American Indian mix boy", go for it. It's what I am. lol
Interesting logic, but maybe I should figure out how to start an insurance company of my own, with only one benefit group, and 15 members (family). Then I'm up to the law.
...but is this coincidental or scientifically-correct information? How often do the electron counts rise when there are no earthquake events? How often do the electron counts rise when there is an earthquake in an area on the globe nowhere near yours? Does the electron rate rise because of an impending earthquake or does an electron rise show that something is happening with the sun or other astral body that is sometimes-yes and sometimes-no with an earthquake trigger?
Oh, wait, it says in the article that they are already questioning this.
*shakes head*
People are still using McAfee?
Yeah, it unfortunately comes installed on many OTS machines, just like a Norton teaser edition does. It's my first uninstall whenever I give a user's machine a "checkup."
My God, it's full of bloat!
You should see AVG. On a Windows XP machine (won't mention whose), the kernel showed a 79MB virtual memory usage before AVG, and a 171MB usage after install and update. This is the "System" process, not all processes, mind ya. The rest took the machine well over the previously good 256MB of RAM limit. And it's DDR, not DDR2/3, so it's less expensive to get a new machine.
/ramble
I usually get 4 comments when I do that. I'm starting to feel ignored. :(
*pat pat*
Your cool, dude. These thing's always get better.
:>
program, is designed to keep Web surfer's safe
Keep his safe where?
S'erious'ly, do people ju'st put in apo'strophe's around random s's the'se day's?
Nah, you just put apostrophes before EVERY 's' at the end of a word, not other letters. :-}