Sounds good, but would be another timescale where seconds are of a variable length, keeps in sync with astronomical time, unix time AND UTC without leap seconds.
I propose the name Simple Universal Computer timeKeeping.
Keeping time at those levels of precission is hard enough.
Keeping irregular earth rotation in sync with some uber-precise caesium oscillations is even harder, but at least connects a high precission timekeeping with the actual meaning of time! (morning, noon, evening, night)
it shouldn't need to bow to some bad unix design descisions.
If we stopped adding leap days, would people notice? would they notice when the equinox was no longer on the correct day? Would they notice when Christmas was eventually actually in July?
They noticed it when christmas was off by 14 days. Which led to the current systemof leap days.
You're free to CHOOSE your timescale! GPS, UTC, UT1, TIA.....
So if leap seconds confuse you, use a timescale without them. Thats what they're for. But keep the timescale that's supposed to be in sync with earth rotation in sync with earth rotation!
Most of European countries have more than 2 ellectable parties unlike the US were the only 2 ellectable parties defend the same vested interests but have 2 different public faces to deceive the plebes.
When you're saying "Europe is...." you're in no way correct from the begining. Europe still consists of independent countries with many different laws. The EU gives mandatory guidelines for laws on certain subjects, but they may still end up in quite different actual laws.
It is not unusual than an employer has some additional protectional duties to fulfill when employing minors.
It's part of the german system that much of your formal education can actually be gained in a company. (you can finish regular school with 15 and continue with an apprenticeship. During those years, you spend 50% in a job related school and 50% in a company. In that company, you're not only in a employee-boss relationship, but also in a pupil-teacher relationship (both with your boss))
Because at this point we all have seen when you design from the start for convenience OF THE DEVELOPER instead of security.
It's rather the convenience of the user, but as he is the one who actually has to buy a gadget this might be the right thing to do, even as you're right with the consequences.
He could have just added the time to his account,but he choose to turn it into a in-game item that carries the risk of beeing lost. The whole purpose of this transformation is tohave it in-game tradeable, in-gamemovable, and in-game stealable.
Which is likely just as true of, oh say, those floods in Pakistan, nothing you value was lost.
But obviously, these PLEX were valuable to quite a few people, not to mention a gaming company.
Oh I'm not sure. I'd rather bet that the OP knows of the value of being able to have shelter and a bed to sleep in. The same goes for food, land... family....
I wouldn't call it double standard, as this is exactly about what MS is doing: Pretending that it's easy.
It's ok to design a cache-db thats only secure behind a firewall. As long as you're informing your users about it. I'd take any bet that it is in the memcachd manuals in bold.
The MS way usually is to pretend that it's easy. The docs consist of a leaflet that explains how to open your cd drive and place the cd the right side up, and how to handle the mouse to make the cursor move to the "Ok" button.
At first glance, making things easier sounds like a good idea. "Hey, installing WinXP is easy! Just insert the CD and hit OK three times. Anyone can do it." Yes, sounds like a way to make everyones life easier. But it's a really bad idea if anyone CAN install an OS if only very few people know about the additional steps needed to finish setting up a reasonybly secure machine. (Antivirus, Firewall/NAT, AdBlocker, Browser, YMMV)
Utterly futile. As DNS-and-BIND sarcastically pointed out, internet anonymity combined with video cameras is a recipe for... this. Chatroulette is not simply flawed; it is fatally flawed. It cannot be anything but what it is.
Yes. And it's so obvious, that I wouldn't even dare call it a 'flaw'. It is SO obvious, that it might be the whole point of starting something like chatroulette.
With "no one" I was referring to all those naysayers on forums like/. and others.
They usually concentrate on one of those 3 fields mentiones by me and say any progress in it is useless, because the other 2 fields don't support it yet.
And I think I could sum it up again as 6-12 months ago....
Going green has three major, independant problems:
Production
Storage/Distribution
Consumption
and we need to tackle all of them.
And I'm sick of those people who don't see that this is a chain that depends on the weakest link. Someone develpps a higher efficiency electric car, and that lot starts to complain that it is useless without greener power production. Some other guy sets up a solar/windpark, and the same people start heckling about its uselessness without a possibility to buffer the rapid output changes. And of course they complain about those fancy smart meters/home automnation like "What is this good for?"
And no one gets the idea of synchronizing the charghing cycles of your car to the output changes of a windpark 100km away... so shortsighted.
Reminds me of the company I did an internship 10yrs ago.
Licencsing practice went as follows: The department had a bunch of CD-R with copied installation media for the volume-licensed software. You (personally) had to keep tabs of your installed software in an Excel sheet and IT would buy licenses based on the number of people using the software.
Worked quite well until we found out that IT didn't even knew about that Excel file.....
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Sounds good, but would be another timescale where seconds are of a variable length, keeps in sync with astronomical time, unix time AND UTC without leap seconds.
I propose the name Simple Universal Computer timeKeeping.
Keeping time at those levels of precission is hard enough.
Keeping irregular earth rotation in sync with some uber-precise caesium oscillations is even harder, but at least connects a high precission timekeeping with the actual meaning of time! (morning, noon, evening, night)
it shouldn't need to bow to some bad unix design descisions.
If we stopped adding leap days, would people notice? would they notice when the equinox was no longer on the correct day? Would they notice when Christmas was eventually actually in July?
They noticed it when christmas was off by 14 days. Which led to the current systemof leap days.
Why abolish it?
You're free to CHOOSE your timescale! GPS, UTC, UT1, TIA.....
So if leap seconds confuse you, use a timescale without them. Thats what they're for. But keep the timescale that's supposed to be in sync with earth rotation in sync with earth rotation!
yes... of course.
But it stems from the "tradition" of leaving home and becoming an apprentice while you were still young enough to need full guardianship.
Situation became better over the last 700 years.
and furthermore...... wouldn't an income of $50 and expenses of $300 + Servercosts result in a net loss that leads to a tax reduction?
Most of European countries have more than 2 ellectable parties unlike the US were the only 2 ellectable parties defend the same vested interests but have 2 different public faces to deceive the plebes.
Don't blame me! I voted for Khodos!
When you're saying "Europe is...." you're in no way correct from the begining. Europe still consists of independent countries with many different laws. The EU gives mandatory guidelines for laws on certain subjects, but they may still end up in quite different actual laws.
Only if an employer is a legal guardian.
It is not unusual than an employer has some additional protectional duties to fulfill when employing minors.
It's part of the german system that much of your formal education can actually be gained in a company. (you can finish regular school with 15 and continue with an apprenticeship. During those years, you spend 50% in a job related school and 50% in a company. In that company, you're not only in a employee-boss relationship, but also in a pupil-teacher relationship (both with your boss))
Sorry, you're WRONG.
This law is against checking the private facebook profiles of applicants/employees.
And more, it allows the use of surveillance cameras as much as their use was allowed before.
This law is a joke as it prohibits 90% things that were prohibited by other laws before and 10% prohipits access to public sources.
Because at this point we all have seen when you design from the start for convenience OF THE DEVELOPER instead of security.
It's rather the convenience of the user, but as he is the one who actually has to buy a gadget this might be the right thing to do, even as you're right with the consequences.
Sounds like a gift card for casino chips.
He could have just added the time to his account,but he choose to turn it into a in-game item that carries the risk of beeing lost. The whole purpose of this transformation is tohave it in-game tradeable, in-gamemovable, and in-game stealable.
These items do have a value which directly translates to a USD amount. So it is definitely arguable that they have a "real world value".
What? the PLEX or USD?
Which is likely just as true of, oh say, those floods in Pakistan, nothing you value was lost.
But obviously, these PLEX were valuable to quite a few people, not to mention a gaming company.
Oh I'm not sure. I'd rather bet that the OP knows of the value of being able to have shelter and a bed to sleep in. The same goes for food, land... family....
I wouldn't call it double standard, as this is exactly about what MS is doing: Pretending that it's easy.
It's ok to design a cache-db thats only secure behind a firewall. As long as you're informing your users about it. I'd take any bet that it is in the memcachd manuals in bold.
The MS way usually is to pretend that it's easy. The docs consist of a leaflet that explains how to open your cd drive and place the cd the right side up, and how to handle the mouse to make the cursor move to the "Ok" button.
At first glance, making things easier sounds like a good idea. "Hey, installing WinXP is easy! Just insert the CD and hit OK three times. Anyone can do it." Yes, sounds like a way to make everyones life easier. But it's a really bad idea if anyone CAN install an OS if only very few people know about the additional steps needed to finish setting up a reasonybly secure machine. (Antivirus, Firewall/NAT, AdBlocker, Browser, YMMV)
maybe +1 inightfull, maybe -1 overrated
But it doesn't change the fact that there still is only one country who used nuclear weapons against another country in a war.
I foolish I was to have thought otherwise.
Utterly futile. As DNS-and-BIND sarcastically pointed out, internet anonymity combined with video cameras is a recipe for ... this. Chatroulette is not simply flawed; it is fatally flawed. It cannot be anything but what it is.
Yes. And it's so obvious, that I wouldn't even dare call it a 'flaw'. It is SO obvious, that it might be the whole point of starting something like chatroulette.
shouldn't there simply be some kind of dickroulette for people who want to show/see them?
Come on.... there's EVERYTHING on the internet!
Proof: http://xkcd.com/305/
she couldn't.....
I know.
With "no one" I was referring to all those naysayers on forums like /. and others.
They usually concentrate on one of those 3 fields mentiones by me and say any progress in it is useless, because the other 2 fields don't support it yet.
And I think I could sum it up again as 6-12 months ago....
Going green has three major, independant problems:
and we need to tackle all of them.
And I'm sick of those people who don't see that this is a chain that depends on the weakest link. Someone develpps a higher efficiency electric car, and that lot starts to complain that it is useless without greener power production. Some other guy sets up a solar/windpark, and the same people start heckling about its uselessness without a possibility to buffer the rapid output changes. And of course they complain about those fancy smart meters/home automnation like "What is this good for?"
And no one gets the idea of synchronizing the charghing cycles of your car to the output changes of a windpark 100km away... so shortsighted.
What always troubled my: How can some company OWN other peoples adresses and even have that counted as an asset?
Reminds me of the company I did an internship 10yrs ago.
Licencsing practice went as follows: The department had a bunch of CD-R with copied installation media for the volume-licensed software. You (personally) had to keep tabs of your installed software in an Excel sheet and IT would buy licenses based on the number of people using the software.
Worked quite well until we found out that IT didn't even knew about that Excel file.....
You just can't go straight for the heart and take their MS Office 2010 + Outlook and Exchange. That's a recipe for disaster.
No need for that. That combination gives at least some added value over the single components.
But how often do you see people insisting on outlook without exchange backend? The only thing they get then is a bloated email client.