The only thing I ever use the # of digits for is to get a sense of who is probably-better-informed via a low id (less then 6 digit id) vs who is probably a noob / naive (7+ digit id).
All I'm saying is that the S/N tends to better with low digit vs high digit id. It is always a pleasant surprise to have someone with a high digit post something informative / insightful.
Almost (all) of the trolls with low ids have long been gone.
oh please... Reddit is the bastard step-child of Slashdot and Digg.
That is not to say Reddit is all bad -- at least _some_ of the sub-reddits are great like/r/LucidDreaming . However, others are a just a constant circle-jerk like/r/atheism/r/politics where it is impossible to have a civil discussion without getting down-voted into oblivion simple because you refuse to spout the fan-boi's dogma and want to look at things objectively./. may have jumped the shark a while back but at most of the trolls have moved on from/. to the latest news-fad-site and that only helps/.:-)
You may laugh, but originally that was the only way for Windows NT to get C2 certification.:-)
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/93362 " Microsoft has opted not to include certain components of Windows NT in the evaluation process,... It may be enough to consider networking to be another subsystem,... "
> There is some material in printed/digital form that is illegal and morally reprehensible and should be banned
That's a fallacy for a number of reasons:
What's illegal in one country may not be in another.
Who decides what is "morally reprehensible" ? You?? Moral's are not absolutes -- they are decided upon by each meta-layer of the community. If a community wishes to decide for itself that it won't sell or read certain books that is their choice -- but they don't have the right to shove their man-made dogma down the throats of its inhabitants.
> There is damn good reasons for some forms of censorship Only cowards use censorship.
There is obviously content I have absolutely no interest in reading / watching / listening to. I also realize _my_ morals do NOT over-ride another person's as long as nobody is getting hurt.
If people are offended at a book's content then they need to grow the fuck up. They have a choice -- don't read it !! They also do NOT have the right to tell others what they can or can not read. We're all adults here. It's time to start treating others with respect even if you disagree with them.
What's really sad is that initially Javascript had the following idiotic C keywords reserved but doesn't use them -- even more annoying was that you couldn't use them as property names until recently!
* char * double * float * int * long * short * void// still reserved as it is an operator
> Squandering the potential of MiniDisc through over-zealous DRM, self-interest (and conflict of interest) as well as Sony's general arrogance seems to be its story in a nutshell.
You've hit the nail right on the head! Sony's arrogance will be their down fall. They still haven't gotten over their Apple envy -- here Sony invents one of the most popular music devices -- the Walkman -- and completely fumbles the ball with digital music by allowing Apple to disrupt them! Due to greed one division of Sony was suing another division of Sony!?!? The music division sued the storage division back in 2002! WTF? http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=569 . That article also sums up the problem:
"The industries are in a dysfunctional relationship," says Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff. "They're codependent; they need each other. There is no consumer electronics industry without content, and there is no content industry without devices to play it on."
DVD-Audio failed big time because people couldn't rip and backup their music like they can with CDs.
Sony: If at first you can't get the the masses to literally buy into your proprietary vendor lock in, you try, and try, and try again...
When you have a hardware company that doesn't understand the first clue about "How the frick can a consumer even brick their TV via firmware upgrades in the first place???" it is not hard to see the writing on the wall. Only by understanding the holy trinity: Hardware, Software, User Experience, will Tech companies survive in the 21st century.
Because Microsoft had to justify their purchase of RenderMorphics in 1995 -- the company that made the Reality Lab API that was renamed Direct3D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
Of course Microsoft didn't get it right until version 3. DX1, DX2, DX5.:-/ (DX4 was never publically available.)
At the time there was a petition of game developers telling Microsoft to support OpenGL - but typically Microsoft didn't give a dam -- they have always just wanted vendor lock in with all their technologies. http://www.graphicsgroups.com/6-opengl/c476ebf66db4600a.htm
I was going to post the same but I see you were first.;-)
People need to stop assuming everyone has a legal First and Last name.
Using an auto incremented name is a bad idea.
john.doe.5 I now know that there are at least 4 other John Does out there!
This is one of the reasons Blizzard's Battle.net tag assigns a random 4-digit number instead.
John.Doe.4231 Good luck guessing how many other John Doe's there are and what there numbers are!
Scientists usually have a degree behind their authority so that they have credibility and are recognized as authoritative experts in their domain.
What degree(s) (Bachelor, Masters, Doctoral) do you have? If none, why not?
Newton didn't have a degree in Alchemy yet spent the majority of time researching it. Why is it not "legitimate" research for someone who gave us the basics of Physics (until Einstein came along) to investigate if there is a basis of truth for things outside the domain of Science?
That may be but at least I can track the memory usage of every page via Tools | Task Manager in Chrome.
The about:memory in Firefox is garbage -- forcing the GC (garbage collector) doesn't actually free up the memory on tabs that have been closed !
I hated Chrome when it first came out but with FF's memory leak that has been going on 10+ years (!) and still no end in sight for an actual fix I run both so I can I figure out if it is Flash that is causing the leak or not.
Some of us power users _like_ having control over the bloated window title and dislike its lack of useful functionality such as the inability to "roll up" -- something that EVERY window manager should include out-of-the-box; thankfully some of the *nix Window Managers actually respect power users.
I've given up on Microsoft actually having a clue about useful GUI design after their Metrosexual UI; Apple is slowly heading that way by hiding essential UI elements such as scroll bar arrows. The fact that both companies still group the Close, Minimize, and Maximize buttons together demonstrates they just don't understand UI design to any significant level -- they would rather keep "dumbing down" the UI year after year instead of giving choices to power users and teaching people how to maximize their workflow process. i.e. It took Microsoft how many years to understand the importance of Spatial Positioning of icons on the Taskbar by allowing them to re-arrange running apps??
You don't have pay a license just because you want to implement (fancy) math on a computer, which is ALL a codec is.
If companies want to license their encoder for a fee I don't have a problem with that AS LONG as it becomes free (donated to the public domain for the benefit of everyone) in 5 - 10 years. This "disease of greed and screw the public benefit" needs to stop at some point.
> I can't think of a single thing Windows 7 has that OSX doesn't but better.
More games.
Alt-tabbing in fullscreen mode on OSX is smoother - you can alt-tab all day long on OSX without a hiccup. On Win7 most games "hiccup" due to crappy DX / driver design.
> Company does a bunch of research work, and then says "hey, you can use the research work we did if you pay us".
Patenting and/or charging to do math is idiotic. The point of having a standard is that _anyone_ could read it, and implement a working version. Standards _need_ to be free else society literally pays the price of "progress ransom"
You don't have to pay a fee to write HTML, Javascript, etc. You shouldn't have to pay a fee just to shuffle numbers around - i.e. to encode video.
(3) Universe is deterministic, every choice you make creates parallel realities where every possible choice is played out.
Thomas Campbell's seminal "My Big Toe" trilogy has a VERY interesting perspective on the meta-reality and how it is constructed.
Thankfully humans are still to immature & ignorant to be allowed to understand time travel otherwise they would fuck that up too like they do with everything else on this planet. One day we'll grow up...
> They will feign a slight interest in morality/safety when it makes them money...try to drive down the block with no seat belt...
Actually there ARE certain legal exceptions: Persons with certified phobia of seat belts; occupant of a motor home, other than the front seat passengers ; children under the age of twelve riding in the bed or cargo area of a truck if an adult is present and is supervising the child, etc.
My brother actually went to court over this. The judge recognized the bottom line was: Are the existing exemptions of a higher order than a constitutional right?
Initially he lost, but appealed to the Superior Court: "Public Safety is not applicable to the wearing of a seat belt because there is not one case where not wearing a seat belt has presented a danger to the people"
The Judge dismissed the case.:-)
Usually you are correct though -- tou know the golden rule -- he who has the gold makes the rules!
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds, like you've found the balance point between bleeding edge (things are broken/buggy) and outdated (no longer supported/available).
I wished more people would favor this approach. It would save money and time down the road. i.e. Planned Upgrade Path.
Touchee :-)
While /. certainly has it group-think I find it to be less then reddit ... although maybe that is in part due to the smaller number of topics discussed?
Why though?
The only thing I ever use the # of digits for is to get a sense of who is probably-better-informed via a low id (less then 6 digit id) vs who is probably a noob / naive (7+ digit id).
All I'm saying is that the S/N tends to better with low digit vs high digit id. It is always a pleasant surprise to have someone with a high digit post something informative / insightful.
Almost (all) of the trolls with low ids have long been gone.
oh please ... Reddit is the bastard step-child of Slashdot and Digg.
That is not to say Reddit is all bad -- at least _some_ of the sub-reddits are great like /r/LucidDreaming . However, others are a just a constant circle-jerk like /r/atheism /r/politics where it is impossible to have a civil discussion without getting down-voted into oblivion simple because you refuse to spout the fan-boi's dogma and want to look at things objectively. /. may have jumped the shark a while back but at most of the trolls have moved on from /. to the latest news-fad-site and that only helps /. :-)
Agreed 100% !!
The mis-scrolling and mis-clicking is the most frustrating aspect of the UI.
The _one_ thing I DO like is the lack of margins. There is no sidebar forcing all the comments to be indented wasting whitespace.
You may laugh, but originally that was the only way for Windows NT to get C2 certification. :-)
* http://support.microsoft.com/kb/93362 ... It may be enough to consider networking to be another subsystem, ... "
" Microsoft has opted not to include certain components of Windows NT in the evaluation process,
> There is some material in printed/digital form that is illegal and morally reprehensible and should be banned
That's a fallacy for a number of reasons:
What's illegal in one country may not be in another.
Who decides what is "morally reprehensible" ? You?? Moral's are not absolutes -- they are decided upon by each meta-layer of the community. If a community wishes to decide for itself that it won't sell or read certain books that is their choice -- but they don't have the right to shove their man-made dogma down the throats of its inhabitants.
Governments need to get off their moral high horse and stop (trying) to dictate to others what its citizens can and can't read. Only a person who lives in fear tries to dictate morality to other people. That is never successful in the long run, anybody who says otherwise needs to pay attention to history. i.e.
* http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
> There is damn good reasons for some forms of censorship
Only cowards use censorship.
There is obviously content I have absolutely no interest in reading / watching / listening to. I also realize _my_ morals do NOT over-ride another person's as long as nobody is getting hurt.
If people are offended at a book's content then they need to grow the fuck up. They have a choice -- don't read it !! They also do NOT have the right to tell others what they can or can not read. We're all adults here. It's time to start treating others with respect even if you disagree with them.
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Fashion: fabricated fad.
ALL programming languages suck in some ways. (Same with every text editor.)
The pragmatic engineer knows what the tradeoffs are, understands both the strengths and weaknesses, and picks the right tool for the job.
What's really sad is that initially Javascript had the following idiotic C keywords reserved but doesn't use them -- even more annoying was that you couldn't use them as property names until recently!
* char // still reserved as it is an operator
* double
* float
* int
* long
* short
* void
Reference / See:
* http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5306315/browser-support-for-using-a-reserved-word-as-a-property-name-in-javascript
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Reserved_Words
Javascript is the new Basic -- it encourages sloppy programming with hard to find bugs.
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Only cowards use censorship.
> Squandering the potential of MiniDisc through over-zealous DRM, self-interest (and conflict of interest) as well as Sony's general arrogance seems to be its story in a nutshell.
You've hit the nail right on the head! Sony's arrogance will be their down fall. They still haven't gotten over their Apple envy -- here Sony invents one of the most popular music devices -- the Walkman -- and completely fumbles the ball with digital music by allowing Apple to disrupt them! Due to greed one division of Sony was suing another division of Sony!?!? The music division sued the storage division back in 2002! WTF? http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=569 . That article also sums up the problem:
DVD-Audio failed big time because people couldn't rip and backup their music like they can with CDs.
Sony: If at first you can't get the the masses to literally buy into your proprietary vendor lock in, you try, and try, and try again...
I can't take credit for the following list. ( http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2559450&cid=38276024 )
Failed Sony Formats...
* Betamax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
* MiniDisc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
* HiFD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_HiFD
* SSDS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDDS
* BroadBand eBook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Reader
* Memory Stick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick (almost dead)
* HDV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV dying
* Super Audio CD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD
* Universal Media Disc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc (dying)
Successful Sony Formats...
* CD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
* Blu-ray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
When you have a hardware company that doesn't understand the first clue about "How the frick can a consumer even brick their TV via firmware upgrades in the first place???" it is not hard to see the writing on the wall. Only by understanding the holy trinity: Hardware, Software, User Experience, will Tech companies survive in the 21st century.
Sony constantly refuses to respect its customers.
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Only cowards use censorship.
> I miss the days where Slashdot was populated by actual developers.
We're still here. It is just that the signal (developers) is probably buried under the noise (fanboys) half (most?) of the time.
It is harder to stick to the facts then to go all emo over speculation which sadly /. is becoming more and more.
Because Microsoft had to justify their purchase of RenderMorphics in 1995 -- the company that made the Reality Lab API that was renamed Direct3D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
Of course Microsoft didn't get it right until version 3. DX1, DX2, DX5. :-/ (DX4 was never publically available.)
At the time there was a petition of game developers telling Microsoft to support OpenGL - but typically Microsoft didn't give a dam -- they have always just wanted vendor lock in with all their technologies.
http://www.graphicsgroups.com/6-opengl/c476ebf66db4600a.htm
I would generally agree with you but also don't toss the baby out with the bath water.
Government's grant monopolies all the time -- usually for essential services. i.e. The Government has a monopoly on how the country is run.
Standards are a good thing. It is only when they are abused (and I'll agree that monopolies tend to be abused) is when the problem starts.
I was going to post the same but I see you were first. ;-)
People need to stop assuming everyone has a legal First and Last name.
Using an auto incremented name is a bad idea.
john.doe.5
I now know that there are at least 4 other John Does out there!
This is one of the reasons Blizzard's Battle.net tag assigns a random 4-digit number instead.
John.Doe.4231
Good luck guessing how many other John Doe's there are and what there numbers are!
Microsoft _bought_ One Tree Software in 1994 who originally created SourceSafe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe
Scientists usually have a degree behind their authority so that they have credibility and are recognized as authoritative experts in their domain.
What degree(s) (Bachelor, Masters, Doctoral) do you have? If none, why not?
Newton didn't have a degree in Alchemy yet spent the majority of time researching it. Why is it not "legitimate" research for someone who gave us the basics of Physics (until Einstein came along) to investigate if there is a basis of truth for things outside the domain of Science?
Once I switched to a YouTube downloader for FF ( "Easy YouTube Video Downloader" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/ ) there is almost zero reason to even have flash installed anymore except for the odd Web Game. i.e. These 2 have excellent gameplay:
Gemcraft - Chapter 0
http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0
Desktop Tower Defense
http://www.kongregate.com/games/preecep/desktop-tower-defense-1-5
> Chrome uses a massive amount of RAM.
That may be but at least I can track the memory usage of every page via Tools | Task Manager in Chrome.
The about:memory in Firefox is garbage -- forcing the GC (garbage collector) doesn't actually free up the memory on tabs that have been closed !
I hated Chrome when it first came out but with FF's memory leak that has been going on 10+ years (!) and still no end in sight for an actual fix I run both so I can I figure out if it is Flash that is causing the leak or not.
WindowShadeX
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx
Some of us power users _like_ having control over the bloated window title and dislike its lack of useful functionality such as the inability to "roll up" -- something that EVERY window manager should include out-of-the-box; thankfully some of the *nix Window Managers actually respect power users.
I've given up on Microsoft actually having a clue about useful GUI design after their Metrosexual UI; Apple is slowly heading that way by hiding essential UI elements such as scroll bar arrows. The fact that both companies still group the Close, Minimize, and Maximize buttons together demonstrates they just don't understand UI design to any significant level -- they would rather keep "dumbing down" the UI year after year instead of giving choices to power users and teaching people how to maximize their workflow process. i.e. It took Microsoft how many years to understand the importance of Spatial Positioning of icons on the Taskbar by allowing them to re-arrange running apps??
Codecs aren't rocket science, just basic computer science. (Oblg. "Brain Surgery" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I )
You don't have pay a license just because you want to implement (fancy) math on a computer, which is ALL a codec is.
If companies want to license their encoder for a fee I don't have a problem with that AS LONG as it becomes free (donated to the public domain for the benefit of everyone) in 5 - 10 years. This "disease of greed and screw the public benefit" needs to stop at some point.
That's a decent trade off; maybe a good trade off might be:
Encode at lower quality (lower bitrate) = free
Encode at higher quality (higher bitrate) = $
As soon as you force people to license the codec you just shut a ton of people off from adapting it which is completely counter-intuitive.
> I can't think of a single thing Windows 7 has that OSX doesn't but better.
More games.
Alt-tabbing in fullscreen mode on OSX is smoother - you can alt-tab all day long on OSX without a hiccup. On Win7 most games "hiccup" due to crappy DX / driver design.
> Company does a bunch of research work, and then says "hey, you can use the research work we did if you pay us".
Patenting and/or charging to do math is idiotic. The point of having a standard is that _anyone_ could read it, and implement a working version. Standards _need_ to be free else society literally pays the price of "progress ransom"
You don't have to pay a fee to write HTML, Javascript, etc. You shouldn't have to pay a fee just to shuffle numbers around - i.e. to encode video.
> (2) alternate universe "time-lines"
The concept of the multiverse has been around for some time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
But yeah, everyone seems to mostly ignore that.
Technically there is a 3rd choice:
(3) Universe is deterministic, every choice you make creates parallel realities where every possible choice is played out.
Thomas Campbell's seminal "My Big Toe" trilogy has a VERY interesting perspective on the meta-reality and how it is constructed.
Thankfully humans are still to immature & ignorant to be allowed to understand time travel otherwise they would fuck that up too like they do with everything else on this planet. One day we'll grow up ...
> They will feign a slight interest in morality/safety when it makes them money...try to drive down the block with no seat belt...
Actually there ARE certain legal exceptions: Persons with certified phobia of seat belts; occupant of a motor home, other than the front seat passengers ; children under the age of twelve riding in the bed or cargo area of a truck if an adult is present and is supervising the child, etc.
My brother actually went to court over this. The judge recognized the bottom line was: Are the existing exemptions of a higher order than a constitutional right?
Initially he lost, but appealed to the Superior Court: "Public Safety is not applicable to the wearing of a seat belt because there is not one case where not wearing a seat belt has presented a danger to the people"
The Judge dismissed the case. :-)
Usually you are correct though -- tou know the golden rule -- he who has the gold makes the rules!
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Only cowards use censorship