Firefox has been less and less dependable ever since Firefox 4.x. Every other day it seems like I get some update pushed at me that breaks some or all of my extensions, some of which are actually pretty important to my workflow. On an update all extensions I had loaded should be reloaded if at all possible. Period. Firefox doesn't get to make decisions whether I mean what I already decided in the previous version. That is parternalistic crap to hide the fact they have managed to define an extension API they can manage to keep from breaking almost every release. I have even started using Safari again on my Mac to get away from Firefox. They both get slower and slower the more tabs you have opened and don't recover regardless of how many of them you close. On linux I use chrome when at all possible. Who is making decisions on the Firefox team, Microsoft employees?
I view it as a 99% clue free display of angst and anger. The majority of the protesters mouth slogans without hardly any depth of political, economic or ethical knowledge. Many of those slogans are profoundly anti free-market which is a profound mistake. First because what we have had for a long time is not remotely free-market or capitalism. It is a government run kleptocracy, a fascist economic state. Most of the economic disaster is not from business or even Wall Street but from political attempts to make a Big Lie seem doable. The Big Lie is that government can make a chicken magically appear in every pot, that it can make it so everyone has a nice and easy life whether they do or produce anything or not. Government cannot do this - ever. Yet the demands of the protesters are largely that government do whatever it takes to make the impossible seem real. In this they are idiot children or worse.
We all know that the Apple walled garden has many deleterious effects and quite possibly will have many more in the future. This is not a surprise as as much has been said by many people here and elsewhere, not just or even primarily Richard Stallman. Yes, Steve Jobs and company had bad as well as good effects on personal computing. Does anyone really deny this?
Firefox ever since 3.x something has been sucking more and more on my Mac. It eats tons of CPU after being up even a short while and stops responding. Various addons break on each of the numerous releases. Even Safari now has better characteristics on the Mac. Chrome is working fine and fast becoming my browser of choice. That it is fast until it bloats or otherwise screws up is not an improvement.
1) The problem of finding actual peers. Not everyone on a team is capable of meaningfully, much less efficiently, reviewing the code of everyone else.
2) Our tools for spelunking code and thus for its presentation to another person and ad hoc exploration are generally woefully inadequate. This makes code reviews much much less efficient than they could otherwise be. This is a general complaint with the state of tools. In Symbolics and in Smalltalk in the 80s I had better code walking tools than I have on the supposed state of the art IDEs today. It is quite possible to make much better code exploration tools but it never seems to happen.
3) I have had even very good people miss glaring errors so I am not a big believer in this process for elimination of many errors. It has other useful features but this in my experience is not one of them.
All of that said, review with a true peer can be very useful. It is most useful when reviewing bug fixes as compared to initial code in my experience.
This is a wedge in the door, the biggest so far, to allow the government to control the internet. This bill effectively allows government to close down any website they like almost on whim long before they get around to bringing the case to core, if ever. It is a continuance of precedent from the civil forfeiture laws in drug and other cases. Property is held to be guilty until proved innocent and is seized or shut down without any sort of due process.
Don't just snigger sadly in year beer on this one. Fight for all you are worth as if your relatively free internet life depended on it.
But it is not the fault of the banks. Governments around the world, including in the US, are very committed to spying on all of their citizen's networked interactions whenever they wish. Establishing much more perfect security including near unbreakable encryption is the last thing that governments wish to see. So if the banks had much more perfect security software then it would quite likely be illegal to use in most countries. If it has government back doors then it is that much less secure.
Please tell me how a secondary stream of income, effectively selling the same unit twice, is hurting them more than illegal copies they get nothing at all for. Also please say why the original buyer gets no resale rights or rights to just give it to someone else. What's next? A game console that scans your DNA and destroys the game if you aren't the original purchaser?
Of course it is. Buyer is in one state, Amazon in another, and the goods it transfers may be in any other state or even from abroad. It is just as much interstate commerce as shipping things across state lines by truck. Also note that the government has claimed interstate commerce covers even things like someone growing medical marijuana in their own yard to be consumed by only themselves. So no way the government could get away with claiming this is not interstate commerce because it involves the internet.
Note that the control rods were put in immediately when the quake started which would have dropped over 94% of the heat production immediately. Note that the fuel rods are each a pellet of fuel well separated by zirconium laced material that takes 2300 degrees C to melt. Now it is true heat would build up over time with no water at all but it seems pretty unlikely that that much melting would have happened.
Also please please keep in mind this was an antiquated design a few weeks from end of life facing a once in 300 year disaster. Using it to bash all nuclear power, which we desperately need and all types of reactor design, many of which are three orders of magnitude safer, is inexcusable fear-mongering and intellectual laziness.
Look, without Mono you can't run serveral projects in the cloud without paying Windows stupidity tax. You can run them on anything but windows if mono falls apart. Like it or not C# is at least as good a language as java and arguably better than c++ for many types of projects. We don't want to lose c# from the non-windows open source world.
This is ridiculously stupid. The core control rods have been in since the quake. A BWR cannot go above 250C as long as water flows even without the control rods. The fuel rods take act least 2200C to melt. The reactor vessel would contain it even if somehow you managed to make the control rods disappear completely and there was no water. Is this the same reactor as the original brouhaha was over over or a different one. Can't be the same one since its core was exposed on purpose to sea water which would make in non-operational. So what is claimed is not possible.
There was some circumstantial evidence of some melting shortly after shutdown at quake time due to residual heat of secondary reaction products. But those decay very very rapidly and drop temperature. Also coolant was restored and the reactor was flooded with cold water which would remove all heat. So this article is pure bullshit FUD and any geek that pushes such to slashdot should have their geek card revoked. I have had enough of this crap.
Has this dude heard of parallels, vmware and other virtual machines? It is not an either or. Use you mac tools and goodness and linux or windows bit at the same time as needed. Not that you couldn't use the bits mentioned from OS X but it does not matter so much when you can also use whatever native from other OSes you need to when you need to.
iPads don't use anymore bandwidth than any other device will that you can watch over the air video on. iPads cannot in principle do anything at all any other computer cannot do. This is pure gouging. Note that it is the cellular carriers themselves that have pushed video on command. The goal is good enough broadband that these and many many other applications can run for everyone everywhere. This is not achieved by nickel and dime-ing us.
Glenn Beck is a government shill pretending to be anti-government. Check out his rolling over on FEMA camps and using as his expert guest the very same Popular Mechanics mouthpiece that gave the worthless purported rebuttal of all 911 truth positions years ago. The man has no credibility even with those of us who agree the government is up to a ton of no good. Beck is an opportunistic hypocrite who will do anything for a buck and a pat on the head from government. The day I take his word on anything is the day I get a permanent medical marijuana license, a trailer in the middle of nowhere and do my damnedest to stay well drugged for the rest of my life. For it would mean my mind had obviously deteriorated beyond hope of recovery.
This is pure gouging. My mobile platform is just that, a platform, a computer in my hand for interacting with the rest of the internet. To insist that if I right an app for my mobile platform I have to get Apple's permission to offer it to anyone else and that I give Apple a cut of 30% if I charge for it was bad enough. To now insist that if my app interfaces with anything else for sale whatsoever that it must be sold through Apple as well for another 30% is absolutely beyond belief. Tell Apple to Stuff It in no uncertain terms. Buy Android phones, jailbreak your phone, do whatever it takes to show Apple who owns what and who is just a provider of tools, not the robber barons we must all pay tribute to at every turn. I love Apple products. But I will not pay through the nose at every turn or be coerced in what I can do on my own devices.
What happened to you Steve? You started with the rest of us homebrew folks believing in computer power to the people. Now you are just a stuck up, greedy suit out to squeeze your customers every way you can. Screw you.
Read http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/01/the-kindle-kerfuffle-update/. The only thing that has really changed is that IF the app offers purchase by tossing you in the browser *on the device* THEN it has to sell to offer the same content through the app store. It is is no wise the case that the Kindle App is threaten or that you aren't going to be able to read your kindle books bought through the web normally on the iPad or iPhone. Only one path, in app purchase outside apple store, is in the least affected. I don't know about you but I always buy my books on the Amazon web site, not from within this or any other iApp.
This is FUD. There is no way Apple is going to kill the iPad as the best Kindle out there. There is no way the book marketplace would agree to a 30% Apple tax either.
DHS is a much greater threat to the freedom and security of the American people than any number of terrorist that have surfaced so far or who are ever likely to surface. This anal tyrannical behavior can only succeed when we the people say "oh, well this next extra annoyance isn't so bad. So I have to be scanned down to my privates to get on the city bus?" It is time to say "HELL NO" consistently and loudly. Otherwise expect more and more of the same. Of course most people have zero backbone and will go along with whatever until it is far too late to refuse or far too costly.
You can't remain a "non-techie" and learn how to be proficient in a techie area like programming. You have to chose whether you want to give up being a non-techie. If you do then roll up your sleeves and learn it like anyone else. I would recommend downloading python, getting the online freebie, "Dive Into Python" and work your way through it. Then read a book on Data Structures and one Algorithms. Next work your way through a few of the problems on Project Euler. By that time you will no longer be a "non-techie". I hope that is OK with you.
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Firefox has been less and less dependable ever since Firefox 4.x. Every other day it seems like I get some update pushed at me that breaks some or all of my extensions, some of which are actually pretty important to my workflow. On an update all extensions I had loaded should be reloaded if at all possible. Period. Firefox doesn't get to make decisions whether I mean what I already decided in the previous version. That is parternalistic crap to hide the fact they have managed to define an extension API they can manage to keep from breaking almost every release. I have even started using Safari again on my Mac to get away from Firefox. They both get slower and slower the more tabs you have opened and don't recover regardless of how many of them you close. On linux I use chrome when at all possible. Who is making decisions on the Firefox team, Microsoft employees?
I view it as a 99% clue free display of angst and anger. The majority of the protesters mouth slogans without hardly any depth of political, economic or ethical knowledge. Many of those slogans are profoundly anti free-market which is a profound mistake. First because what we have had for a long time is not remotely free-market or capitalism. It is a government run kleptocracy, a fascist economic state. Most of the economic disaster is not from business or even Wall Street but from political attempts to make a Big Lie seem doable. The Big Lie is that government can make a chicken magically appear in every pot, that it can make it so everyone has a nice and easy life whether they do or produce anything or not. Government cannot do this - ever. Yet the demands of the protesters are largely that government do whatever it takes to make the impossible seem real. In this they are idiot children or worse.
We all know that the Apple walled garden has many deleterious effects and quite possibly will have many more in the future. This is not a surprise as as much has been said by many people here and elsewhere, not just or even primarily Richard Stallman. Yes, Steve Jobs and company had bad as well as good effects on personal computing. Does anyone really deny this?
I signed up for unlimited back years ago. Not for unlimited with limits that reduce speed. This is an arbitrary change of contract.
It requires Mathematica 8 (very expensive for non-students) to create such a document. So I doubt it is going to be real popular.
Firefox ever since 3.x something has been sucking more and more on my Mac. It eats tons of CPU after being up even a short while and stops responding. Various addons break on each of the numerous releases. Even Safari now has better characteristics on the Mac. Chrome is working fine and fast becoming my browser of choice. That it is fast until it bloats or otherwise screws up is not an improvement.
1) The problem of finding actual peers. Not everyone on a team is capable of meaningfully, much less efficiently, reviewing the code of everyone else.
2) Our tools for spelunking code and thus for its presentation to another person and ad hoc exploration are generally woefully inadequate. This makes code reviews much much less efficient than they could otherwise be. This is a general complaint with the state of tools. In Symbolics and in Smalltalk in the 80s I had better code walking tools than I have on the supposed state of the art IDEs today. It is quite possible to make much better code exploration tools but it never seems to happen.
3) I have had even very good people miss glaring errors so I am not a big believer in this process for elimination of many errors. It has other useful features but this in my experience is not one of them.
All of that said, review with a true peer can be very useful. It is most useful when reviewing bug fixes as compared to initial code in my experience.
This is a wedge in the door, the biggest so far, to allow the government to control the internet. This bill effectively allows government to close down any website they like almost on whim long before they get around to bringing the case to core, if ever. It is a continuance of precedent from the civil forfeiture laws in drug and other cases. Property is held to be guilty until proved innocent and is seized or shut down without any sort of due process.
Don't just snigger sadly in year beer on this one. Fight for all you are worth as if your relatively free internet life depended on it.
But it is not the fault of the banks. Governments around the world, including in the US, are very committed to spying on all of their citizen's networked interactions whenever they wish. Establishing much more perfect security including near unbreakable encryption is the last thing that governments wish to see. So if the banks had much more perfect security software then it would quite likely be illegal to use in most countries. If it has government back doors then it is that much less secure.
Please tell me how a secondary stream of income, effectively selling the same unit twice, is hurting them more than illegal copies they get nothing at all for. Also please say why the original buyer gets no resale rights or rights to just give it to someone else. What's next? A game console that scans your DNA and destroys the game if you aren't the original purchaser?
Of course it is. Buyer is in one state, Amazon in another, and the goods it transfers may be in any other state or even from abroad. It is just as much interstate commerce as shipping things across state lines by truck. Also note that the government has claimed interstate commerce covers even things like someone growing medical marijuana in their own yard to be consumed by only themselves. So no way the government could get away with claiming this is not interstate commerce because it involves the internet.
I agree. The government has turned millions into unpaid government tax collectors. It is disgusting. I am glad Bezos is pushing back.
Note that the control rods were put in immediately when the quake started which would have dropped over 94% of the heat production immediately. Note that the fuel rods are each a pellet of fuel well separated by zirconium laced material that takes 2300 degrees C to melt. Now it is true heat would build up over time with no water at all but it seems pretty unlikely that that much melting would have happened.
Also please please keep in mind this was an antiquated design a few weeks from end of life facing a once in 300 year disaster. Using it to bash all nuclear power, which we desperately need and all types of reactor design, many of which are three orders of magnitude safer, is inexcusable fear-mongering and intellectual laziness.
Look, without Mono you can't run serveral projects in the cloud without paying Windows stupidity tax. You can run them on anything but windows if mono falls apart. Like it or not C# is at least as good a language as java and arguably better than c++ for many types of projects. We don't want to lose c# from the non-windows open source world.
As C# is the basis for some very important to me projects this is not in the slightest good news to me.
Starting today I am plotting my escape from Amerika. It is no longer the country of freedom.
This is ridiculously stupid. The core control rods have been in since the quake. A BWR cannot go above 250C as long as water flows even without the control rods. The fuel rods take act least 2200C to melt. The reactor vessel would contain it even if somehow you managed to make the control rods disappear completely and there was no water. Is this the same reactor as the original brouhaha was over over or a different one. Can't be the same one since its core was exposed on purpose to sea water which would make in non-operational. So what is claimed is not possible.
There was some circumstantial evidence of some melting shortly after shutdown at quake time due to residual heat of secondary reaction products. But those decay very very rapidly and drop temperature. Also coolant was restored and the reactor was flooded with cold water which would remove all heat. So this article is pure bullshit FUD and any geek that pushes such to slashdot should have their geek card revoked. I have had enough of this crap.
Has this dude heard of parallels, vmware and other virtual machines? It is not an either or. Use you mac tools and goodness and linux or windows bit at the same time as needed. Not that you couldn't use the bits mentioned from OS X but it does not matter so much when you can also use whatever native from other OSes you need to when you need to.
iPads don't use anymore bandwidth than any other device will that you can watch over the air video on. iPads cannot in principle do anything at all any other computer cannot do. This is pure gouging. Note that it is the cellular carriers themselves that have pushed video on command. The goal is good enough broadband that these and many many other applications can run for everyone everywhere. This is not achieved by nickel and dime-ing us.
Glenn Beck is a government shill pretending to be anti-government. Check out his rolling over on FEMA camps and using as his expert guest the very same Popular Mechanics mouthpiece that gave the worthless purported rebuttal of all 911 truth positions years ago. The man has no credibility even with those of us who agree the government is up to a ton of no good. Beck is an opportunistic hypocrite who will do anything for a buck and a pat on the head from government. The day I take his word on anything is the day I get a permanent medical marijuana license, a trailer in the middle of nowhere and do my damnedest to stay well drugged for the rest of my life. For it would mean my mind had obviously deteriorated beyond hope of recovery.
This is pure gouging. My mobile platform is just that, a platform, a computer in my hand for interacting with the rest of the internet. To insist that if I right an app for my mobile platform I have to get Apple's permission to offer it to anyone else and that I give Apple a cut of 30% if I charge for it was bad enough. To now insist that if my app interfaces with anything else for sale whatsoever that it must be sold through Apple as well for another 30% is absolutely beyond belief. Tell Apple to Stuff It in no uncertain terms. Buy Android phones, jailbreak your phone, do whatever it takes to show Apple who owns what and who is just a provider of tools, not the robber barons we must all pay tribute to at every turn. I love Apple products. But I will not pay through the nose at every turn or be coerced in what I can do on my own devices.
What happened to you Steve? You started with the rest of us homebrew folks believing in computer power to the people. Now you are just a stuck up, greedy suit out to squeeze your customers every way you can. Screw you.
Read http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/01/the-kindle-kerfuffle-update/. The only thing that has really changed is that IF the app offers purchase by tossing you in the browser *on the device* THEN it has to sell to offer the same content through the app store. It is is no wise the case that the Kindle App is threaten or that you aren't going to be able to read your kindle books bought through the web normally on the iPad or iPhone. Only one path, in app purchase outside apple store, is in the least affected. I don't know about you but I always buy my books on the Amazon web site, not from within this or any other iApp.
This is FUD. There is no way Apple is going to kill the iPad as the best Kindle out there. There is no way the book marketplace would agree to a 30% Apple tax either.
DHS is a much greater threat to the freedom and security of the American people than any number of terrorist that have surfaced so far or who are ever likely to surface. This anal tyrannical behavior can only succeed when we the people say "oh, well this next extra annoyance isn't so bad. So I have to be scanned down to my privates to get on the city bus?" It is time to say "HELL NO" consistently and loudly. Otherwise expect more and more of the same. Of course most people have zero backbone and will go along with whatever until it is far too late to refuse or far too costly.
You can't remain a "non-techie" and learn how to be proficient in a techie area like programming. You have to chose whether you want to give up being a non-techie. If you do then roll up your sleeves and learn it like anyone else. I would recommend downloading python, getting the online freebie, "Dive Into Python" and work your way through it. Then read a book on Data Structures and one Algorithms. Next work your way through a few of the problems on Project Euler. By that time you will no longer be a "non-techie". I hope that is OK with you.