There are critics from both ends of the spectrum. The grandparent was talking about people like that ex-Britannica editor, you're talking about disgruntled Wikipedia trolls.
I agree with the general point that security whistleblowing should be protected, and I can't deny either that there's a slim chance what you're saying might be true --- as e.g. the Katrina response showed us, it does happen that critical infrastructure is horribly botched. But there's no reason to believe your particular story is true, and I'd have to be a fool to believe tall tales from slashdot ACs.
You're a troll. You provide no evidence, and it would be trivially easy for Sprint to secure the system more than what you're claiming. Why don't you do something productive with your life instead of amusing yourself by spreading lies.
Okay, that it's supported by screenreaders is new to me. Still, looking it up I see extra markup is required to support it, whereas when you use standard HTML you pretty much get it automatically.
And: Your whole argument is a strawman. Flash is usually glitz, not content.
How's it a strawman when I see content inside Flash all the time? I don't really have any problems with Flash for some limited applications (e.g. web games), but any defense of Flash should begin by acknowledging that 80% of the time, Flash is misused.
It's progress to have pages that I can't bookmark or link for others, text I can't resize or cut-and-paste, and that my blind friend can't play in a screen reader? Flash is a step backward because it's not an open standard and it takes away control from the reader, when the web is all about empowering the reader.
You can have hours of work erased just by forgetting that vim has multi-level "undo", and that instead of being able to undo the undo you just accidentally undid, you'll be undoing something else, maybe even an entire paragraph somewhere else in the file.
Ctrl-R to undo undos
Plus, if you count on being able to know where you will start editing a file, vim can be a real surprise when it drops you somewhere into the middle of a file instead of row 1 column 1. If you've not edited that file for months, it is ridiculous for vim to assume that you want to go back to the last place you were.
Put "autocmd BufRead normal gg" in your.vimrc
And colorized editing!?! What a treat for text to show up as dark blue on black when you've set your xterm colors to white on black.
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I'd appreciate a "strict vi mode" command to tell vim not to do all the extra stuff that gets in the way of fingers that learned vi a long time ago.
Not really. If you want something beginner-friendly, try one of the hundreds of other editors, 90% of which are easier to learn to use than Vim. Vim has its target userbase and they're happy with it.
And yes, it is a "simple" fix, but as anyone who understands a complicated manufacturing process knows, it can take a while to implement any change.
I don't know much about manufacturing, but I can't imagine what's so hard about telling your paste-slathering guys to put on less next time. You're going out of your way to give Apple credit when they don't deserve any.
Ironically the picture is hosted on imageshack.us, which has an email address for complaints and would have promptly removed the image without a fuss. Because of the stupidity of Apple's lawyers, now this is all over the Internet and hurting their reputation.
Now look, I hate Norton as much as the next guy, but this is baseless slander. I've never seen any evidence that a major antivirus companies wrote any viruses. Their business model may be rather parasitic but that doesn't mean they are gangster-like scumbags who would stoop to that level. The programmers at Norton and McAfee are just honest programmers like you and me (though possibly less competent:) --- they deserve a little credit.
Why do you think 80% of non-techincal people can't program their VCR's. Despite what techies like to think with their self-inflated egos, it's not because they are unintelligent. It's because the interface sucks.
Hell, I program computers for a living and I can't program my VCR either. There's a good quote on this:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++)
Uh, but nobody actually needs to do that? Casual users should use software like AdAware to flush out crud from their startup queue. And experts should use HijackThis. I haven't touched that registry key in years.
Yeah, I often do something similar: I fix the amount of swap space to a set amount (e.g. 1gb). It seems that Windows wastes a lot of time resizing the swap file and I've seen noticeable reduction in thrashing when you stop it from doing this. A useful alternative when you don't have the large quantities of RAM to prohibit swapping completely.
I think that's partly the point. They want to open up to a new audience and ditch the old image of video games.
I think it's a decent name. It's intentionally jarring: it tells you you're dealing with something entirely different from other game consoles. At the same time it's cute and friendly, which is good for the Japanese and the kids' market. It also has a variety of interesting connotations internationally: "whee" in English, "oui" (yes) in French for example.
Good for you, but I've heard horror stories from friends about attempting to use Linux on PCs for media center purposes. X keeps crashing, you can't use the resolution you want, getting video codecs is a pain... You may have gotten lucky and found your distribution happens to be compatible with your hardware and comes with all the apps you need (or more likely, you spent countless hours tweaking it), but for most people a Mac or Windows makes much more sense for this purpose.
That's overstating the case. I would never have believed it in the days of Windows 98, but we've gotten to the point where hot-swap peripherals "just work"; file sharing and Internet access over a wired network is reliable out of the box; nor is there any difficulty with using files in standard, non-DRMed file formats. You can still find a way to screw these things up if your situation is unusual but I mean, we're getting there.
If we really cared about these postapocalyptic primitives, we'd use nuclear power and leave the oil in the ground to give them an easy power source for redevelopment.
I don't even need to read your silly paper to call bullshit because it's already been proven that it's impossible to compress truly random data in the general case by even 1 bit. Do you also spend your days trying to draw maps that violate the 4-color theorem? Crank.
he's a whole fuckload more qualified to make these kinds of statements than the average living-in-mom's-basement slashdotter.
So he's qualified to make statements about open source because... he has a long history of making statements about open source?
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So, in their "unsureness" about commiting fully to Apple, not only do they have to pay for completely new hardware but also another copy of XP (in most cases). I don't see many "home user" types bothering with that at all.
Or they can call up their friend Bob with the Windows CD and ask him to come install XP on their Mac. You underestimate the casual piracy of many home users. In this particular case many people will tell themselves, "well I only need XP to run this one application once a month, so it's not like Microsoft deserves my money anyway."
Let's lump all the Linux and OS X "home users" into the same group for one moment.
Whaaat? Linux still has a reputation as a hard-to-use OS for hardcore techies. Meanwhile even my grandma knows who Apple is and that they have a reputation for easy GUIs. Joe-Average types can and do switch to Apple.
Stuff like new compression algorithms generally comes out in academic papers, which are then applied in practice by regular programmers. That's what happened with the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm at the core of bzip2. Some company concerned with mostly implementation rather than theory wouldn't come up with a revolutionary advance. The writeup is very vague, but it sounds to me like they're just using a simple LZ type algorithm, and they're only claiming 25x compression if the data is mostly the same already. Well duh.
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There are critics from both ends of the spectrum. The grandparent was talking about people like that ex-Britannica editor, you're talking about disgruntled Wikipedia trolls.
Oh jeez that's much nicer than Taco's favorites. I hope at least I'll be able to choose it as an option in the redesign.
I agree with the general point that security whistleblowing should be protected, and I can't deny either that there's a slim chance what you're saying might be true --- as e.g. the Katrina response showed us, it does happen that critical infrastructure is horribly botched. But there's no reason to believe your particular story is true, and I'd have to be a fool to believe tall tales from slashdot ACs.
You're a troll. You provide no evidence, and it would be trivially easy for Sprint to secure the system more than what you're claiming. Why don't you do something productive with your life instead of amusing yourself by spreading lies.
And: Your whole argument is a strawman. Flash is usually glitz, not content.
How's it a strawman when I see content inside Flash all the time? I don't really have any problems with Flash for some limited applications (e.g. web games), but any defense of Flash should begin by acknowledging that 80% of the time, Flash is misused.
It's progress to have pages that I can't bookmark or link for others, text I can't resize or cut-and-paste, and that my blind friend can't play in a screen reader? Flash is a step backward because it's not an open standard and it takes away control from the reader, when the web is all about empowering the reader.
Ctrl-R to undo undos
Plus, if you count on being able to know where you will start editing a file, vim can be a real surprise when it drops you somewhere into the middle of a file instead of row 1 column 1. If you've not edited that file for months, it is ridiculous for vim to assume that you want to go back to the last place you were.
Put "autocmd BufRead normal gg" in your .vimrc
And colorized editing!?! What a treat for text to show up as dark blue on black when you've set your xterm colors to white on black.
I'd appreciate a "strict vi mode" command to tell vim not to do all the extra stuff that gets in the way of fingers that learned vi a long time ago.
You're welcome :).
Not really. If you want something beginner-friendly, try one of the hundreds of other editors, 90% of which are easier to learn to use than Vim. Vim has its target userbase and they're happy with it.
I don't know much about manufacturing, but I can't imagine what's so hard about telling your paste-slathering guys to put on less next time. You're going out of your way to give Apple credit when they don't deserve any.
Ironically the picture is hosted on imageshack.us, which has an email address for complaints and would have promptly removed the image without a fuss. Because of the stupidity of Apple's lawyers, now this is all over the Internet and hurting their reputation.
Now look, I hate Norton as much as the next guy, but this is baseless slander. I've never seen any evidence that a major antivirus companies wrote any viruses. Their business model may be rather parasitic but that doesn't mean they are gangster-like scumbags who would stoop to that level. The programmers at Norton and McAfee are just honest programmers like you and me (though possibly less competent :) --- they deserve a little credit.
Hell, I program computers for a living and I can't program my VCR either. There's a good quote on this:
Uh, but nobody actually needs to do that? Casual users should use software like AdAware to flush out crud from their startup queue. And experts should use HijackThis. I haven't touched that registry key in years.
Yeah, I often do something similar: I fix the amount of swap space to a set amount (e.g. 1gb). It seems that Windows wastes a lot of time resizing the swap file and I've seen noticeable reduction in thrashing when you stop it from doing this. A useful alternative when you don't have the large quantities of RAM to prohibit swapping completely.
And why would Nintendo care what you think? You're going to buy a Wii anyway, right?
I think that's partly the point. They want to open up to a new audience and ditch the old image of video games.
I think it's a decent name. It's intentionally jarring: it tells you you're dealing with something entirely different from other game consoles. At the same time it's cute and friendly, which is good for the Japanese and the kids' market. It also has a variety of interesting connotations internationally: "whee" in English, "oui" (yes) in French for example.
Good for you, but I've heard horror stories from friends about attempting to use Linux on PCs for media center purposes. X keeps crashing, you can't use the resolution you want, getting video codecs is a pain... You may have gotten lucky and found your distribution happens to be compatible with your hardware and comes with all the apps you need (or more likely, you spent countless hours tweaking it), but for most people a Mac or Windows makes much more sense for this purpose.
That's overstating the case. I would never have believed it in the days of Windows 98, but we've gotten to the point where hot-swap peripherals "just work"; file sharing and Internet access over a wired network is reliable out of the box; nor is there any difficulty with using files in standard, non-DRMed file formats. You can still find a way to screw these things up if your situation is unusual but I mean, we're getting there.
Nonsense; that would only happen if there were great improvements in bandwidth as well.
If we really cared about these postapocalyptic primitives, we'd use nuclear power and leave the oil in the ground to give them an easy power source for redevelopment.
Google has no intention of fixing it, they even offer a special service for domain squatters.
I don't even need to read your silly paper to call bullshit because it's already been proven that it's impossible to compress truly random data in the general case by even 1 bit. Do you also spend your days trying to draw maps that violate the 4-color theorem? Crank.
So he's qualified to make statements about open source because... he has a long history of making statements about open source?
Or they can call up their friend Bob with the Windows CD and ask him to come install XP on their Mac. You underestimate the casual piracy of many home users. In this particular case many people will tell themselves, "well I only need XP to run this one application once a month, so it's not like Microsoft deserves my money anyway."
Let's lump all the Linux and OS X "home users" into the same group for one moment.
Whaaat? Linux still has a reputation as a hard-to-use OS for hardcore techies. Meanwhile even my grandma knows who Apple is and that they have a reputation for easy GUIs. Joe-Average types can and do switch to Apple.
Stuff like new compression algorithms generally comes out in academic papers, which are then applied in practice by regular programmers. That's what happened with the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm at the core of bzip2. Some company concerned with mostly implementation rather than theory wouldn't come up with a revolutionary advance. The writeup is very vague, but it sounds to me like they're just using a simple LZ type algorithm, and they're only claiming 25x compression if the data is mostly the same already. Well duh.