Hey if people want to read/. in their birthday suit more power to them but sometimes there really is T.M.I (too much information) as your fetish for others to be nude here:)
The GPL3 exists because a few want to abuse the spirit of the law with a license literalism run-around.
That's the problem with ideology -- it doesn't compromise to pragmaticism.:-(
Each user needs to decide what an "acceptable" compromise is. Still to their ideology and not use any modern hardware, or comprise their freedom and use the latest hardware.
You are spot on with XP, Vista, and Win 7. There are quite a few legacy systems stuck on IE6 because of stupid SAP crap. We only recently upgraded those to IE7 !!! (Classic short-sightedness of selling your soul to MS and we are literally paying the devil his due for not having the wisdom to use open standard but I digress.)
I'll be visiting HQ next week. I'll ask some of the admins what our Win8.1 plans (if any) are.
On the back end some flavor of *nix is obviously used. Allways kind of surprised (and glad) to hear OpenBD pop-up when I least expect it. Rest of *nix boxes are usually Solaris with some sort of Blades.
OSX is become more visible. We even have a few satellite offices running OSX exclusively. I've been converting a few developers to *augment* their Win 7 & 8 boxes over to OSX. With the clusterfuck of Win8 it has been an easy "sell". Most people don't realize just how inconsistent and schizophrensic MS's UI is until they try something different. Everyone agrees OSX isn't perfect but compared to the garbage MS is going OSX looks like a saint. Apple couldn't "pay" for better marketing -- all they have to do is let MS suicide itself: Microsoft has never understood good UI. It took them how many years until they had the start of something decent in 95?! LOL
Win8 is an interesting ball of wax. We already in the progress of migration to it -- mostly new Dell laptops. It is universally hated by everyone I talk to. People hate it for two reasons:
a) sake of change for the sake of change when there was nothing "wrong" with the old UI b) Eveyone agrees Metro makes perfect sense on a tablet but screwing over the desktop users pisses off a lot of people because you are forcing them to waste their time and IT's time to relearn how to do the same thing as before. It is a hindrance from us doing our job and we are already overloaded as it is.
I know that we're definitely going to be staying on Win 7 as long as possible. Hell, we're already running XP in VMs such as VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox. A few of the OSX users are using Bootcamp - both Win7 and Win8.
I haven't heard of one soul asking to use Win 8 (or 8.1) but when you have 100,000 people it probably takes a little but if time for THAT news to travel.:)
"Unlike man-made gears, each gear tooth is asymmetrical and curved towards the point where the cogs interlock - as man-made gears need a symmetric shape to work in both rotational directions, whereas the Issus gears are only powering one way to launch the animal forward."
> anything that removes those ads has not made your content more valuable. It has in fact made that content worth nothing to the provider.
That is an incomplete picture. What value do you put on your community? There are many sites I use because of the _people_ who freely share their knowledge, tips, comradery.
Aside from a few niche markets relying on ads to support your site is short-sighted business sense, as in, half-baked. If a company thinks their "ad business" is what brings me to their site in the first place they are delusional.
> This is why every single user should delete their FB account
Sadly, that will never happen: People have become wussies. Instead of doing something about they will just bitch about it, and keep using it.
But yes that is the proper solution to send the proper message: Critical mass take control back by stopping giving their power away. That is the only way corporations will ever "learn". Unfortunately people, in mass, aren't that smart.:-((
That's the same lame-ass argument those serving ads whine over -- you shouldn't have control over how to present the page or block parts of it which is total bullocks.
When I look at content -- I want it tailored for me -- so I can quickly separate the noise from the signal.
If some company wants to cry that somebody is making their content MORE valuable by providing OPTIONS for how people view then they are being extremely short-sighted and not understanding the value the community brings.
Blizzard learnt this by _allowing_ custom UI mods in World of Warcraft. Years later the best mods have become built into the game./sarcasm Oh noes! "Someone is altering our page rendering" Quick, sue the browser makers!!
Yeah tossing the baby out with the bath water is a "real" sign of maturity.
EVERY tool can be used or abused.
Sticking ones luddite head in the sand doesn't change that fact.
The only thing that makes him different is that he knew himself - his limits - but he also sacrificed learning and interacting with others in a different capacity (Internet / text / video / audio )
> You have to really really fuck something up to have C++ OO code be too slow where you're talking "milliseconds".
The problem is OO tends to over-engineered solutions*. i.e. multiple levels of inheritance, deep and tightly coupled interfaces, virtual functions in the middle of the a performance critical loop, template bloat, etc.:-( The younger programmers haven't learnt the rule-of-thumb:
Just because you can, doesn't imply you should.
The great C++ programmers knows how to balance the simplicity & speed of C with the power & flexibility of C++.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed on all accounts!
> can one make a "counterfit" digital bit?
What, you didn't get the memo about the TCP Evil Bit? :)
> You must be nude here.
Hey if people want to read /. in their birthday suit more power to them but sometimes there really is T.M.I (too much information) as your fetish for others to be nude here :)
The GPL3 exists because a few want to abuse the spirit of the law with a license literalism run-around.
That's the problem with ideology -- it doesn't compromise to pragmaticism. :-(
Each user needs to decide what an "acceptable" compromise is. Still to their ideology and not use any modern hardware, or comprise their freedom and use the latest hardware.
Agreed. Sadly it will probably never get modded up to be visible to get the attention it deserves.
Why do you think Max Planck said:
"Science advances one funeral at a time."
Lots of *great* quotes! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
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Only cowards censor.
That WAS the burger :)
> Monitors just have to draw to a screen, at most at 120Hz.
Incorrect.
Most monitors refresh at 60 Hz.
My Asus VG248 is a 144 Hz monitor
s / prevented / perverted
Because that would real work from the officers. "Best" to just judge everybody us vs them and create division instead of unity.
To Serve And Protect has been prevented to Judge and Extort :(
I work for a fortune 50, yes 50, company.
You are spot on with XP, Vista, and Win 7. There are quite a few legacy systems stuck on IE6 because of stupid SAP crap. We only recently upgraded those to IE7 !!! (Classic short-sightedness of selling your soul to MS and we are literally paying the devil his due for not having the wisdom to use open standard but I digress.)
I'll be visiting HQ next week. I'll ask some of the admins what our Win8.1 plans (if any) are.
On the back end some flavor of *nix is obviously used. Allways kind of surprised (and glad) to hear OpenBD pop-up when I least expect it. Rest of *nix boxes are usually Solaris with some sort of Blades.
OSX is become more visible. We even have a few satellite offices running OSX exclusively. I've been converting a few developers to *augment* their Win 7 & 8 boxes over to OSX. With the clusterfuck of Win8 it has been an easy "sell". Most people don't realize just how inconsistent and schizophrensic MS's UI is until they try something different. Everyone agrees OSX isn't perfect but compared to the garbage MS is going OSX looks like a saint. Apple couldn't "pay" for better marketing -- all they have to do is let MS suicide itself: Microsoft has never understood good UI. It took them how many years until they had the start of something decent in 95?! LOL
Win8 is an interesting ball of wax. We already in the progress of migration to it -- mostly new Dell laptops. It is universally hated by everyone I talk to. People hate it for two reasons:
a) sake of change for the sake of change when there was nothing "wrong" with the old UI
b) Eveyone agrees Metro makes perfect sense on a tablet but screwing over the desktop users pisses off a lot of people because you are forcing them to waste their time and IT's time to relearn how to do the same thing as before. It is a hindrance from us doing our job and we are already overloaded as it is.
I know that we're definitely going to be staying on Win 7 as long as possible. Hell, we're already running XP in VMs such as VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox. A few of the OSX users are using Bootcamp - both Win7 and Win8.
I haven't heard of one soul asking to use Win 8 (or 8.1) but when you have 100,000 people it probably takes a little but if time for THAT news to travel. :)
Indeed. 10 to 12 gears, with a 1:1 gear ratio.
The cool part?
> anything that removes those ads has not made your content more valuable. It has in fact made that content worth nothing to the provider.
That is an incomplete picture. What value do you put on your community? There are many sites I use because of the _people_ who freely share their knowledge, tips, comradery.
Aside from a few niche markets relying on ads to support your site is short-sighted business sense, as in, half-baked. If a company thinks their "ad business" is what brings me to their site in the first place they are delusional.
> It wasn't magic, it was physics
No shit, sherlock. What was the _cause_ ?
The problem is that the UI needs to show BOTH:
ABSOLUTE bytes copied SO FAR (as in the "past)
RELATIVE time left (as in the "future")
Showing one (or the other) is not giving the user all the information they may need / want.
Great list!
You missed the original one:
Geocities
Not sure if
LiveJournal
was before or after Friendster.
I like the way you think! Now if only we could come up with a way to share photos, videos, and talk digitally ...
. /sarcasm Nah, that would never work.
> And go where, Yahoo, G+, Geocities?
Neither. How about old human interaction???
What precisely is so important on Facebook that requires your digital-pseudo-life to over-ride and neglect the physical interaction?
> This is why every single user should delete their FB account
Sadly, that will never happen: People have become wussies. Instead of doing something about they will just bitch about it, and keep using it.
But yes that is the proper solution to send the proper message: Critical mass take control back by stopping giving their power away. That is the only way corporations will ever "learn". Unfortunately people, in mass, aren't that smart. :-((
. /queue next internet fad in 5 years ...
That's the same lame-ass argument those serving ads whine over -- you shouldn't have control over how to present the page or block parts of it which is total bullocks.
When I look at content -- I want it tailored for me -- so I can quickly separate the noise from the signal.
If some company wants to cry that somebody is making their content MORE valuable by providing OPTIONS for how people view then they are being extremely short-sighted and not understanding the value the community brings.
Blizzard learnt this by _allowing_ custom UI mods in World of Warcraft. Years later the best mods have become built into the game. /sarcasm Oh noes! "Someone is altering our page rendering" Quick, sue the browser makers!!
Facebook wants to make money of its spam, not your spam.
> Obama managed to keep the Great Recession from becoming Great Depression II.
Hyperbole - most people have no way of knowing just how good (or bad) Obama handled the situation.
Let's see how he handles the 3rd coming financial crisis when he is about to get re-elected.
Yeah tossing the baby out with the bath water is a "real" sign of maturity.
EVERY tool can be used or abused.
Sticking ones luddite head in the sand doesn't change that fact.
The only thing that makes him different is that he knew himself - his limits - but he also sacrificed learning and interacting with others in a different capacity (Internet / text / video / audio )
Bullshit.
Not everyone likes sports. We have enough other hobbies to "waste" our time with.
Oh please your "proof" that they were terrorists is from where again?
And what is the "official" response for why Building 7 magically collapsed again?
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TSA: groping children since 2001
> You have to really really fuck something up to have C++ OO code be too slow where you're talking "milliseconds".
The problem is OO tends to over-engineered solutions*. i.e. multiple levels of inheritance, deep and tightly coupled interfaces, virtual functions in the middle of the a performance critical loop, template bloat, etc. :-( The younger programmers haven't learnt the rule-of-thumb:
Just because you can, doesn't imply you should.
The great C++ programmers knows how to balance the simplicity & speed of C with the power & flexibility of C++.
* See: See Mike Acton's "Typical C++ bullshit"
http://macton.smugmug.com/gallery/8936708_T6zQX#!i=593426709&k=ZX4pZ
> because the PEBCAK
Agreed: Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.