Two groups that are so utterly disconnected from the real world that they both have no idea why their favorite toy hasn't taken over the world even those its the simplest, most efficient, easiest to use, most feature rich (insert whatever here) on the planet.
Most of both groups probably think grandma knows assembly as well.
There are far easier ways to commit click fraud than actually looking at the screen to do it. The ad companies tend to ignore the same request multiple times from the same IP so this changes nothing.
People who commit 'click fraud' aren't writing crappy little screen scrapers to do it, its far easier and faster to write a plugin for firefox to do what you're say and just find the text of your ad on the page and trigger the link. No need to futz with whats displayed or 'moving the mouse' to the right spot, you just tell Firefox to find the link and trigger it.
A relatively simple WebKit wrapper would work equally well.
Why is it that we can put something in orbit to avoid the atmosphere losses, but then beam it down through the same atmosphere they are avoiding in order to use it on the ground.
Seems to me like you're going to have the same parasitic losses.
It was a wearable computer. Had an address book, calculator, alarms, timers, and whatever else I'm forgetting.
It was cool as shit for a kid, but it was a rather big pain in the ass to use, and all in all not real useful since the screen was the size of a postage stamp.
'Because we can' is the answer you are looking for I think.
Considering what they've done (most of it anyway) can be accomplished with a few flags to make.conf anyway, its not exactly impressive. Tell the system to use glibc instead of its native libc, then rebuild world (to rebuild the built in GNU tools with glibc) and build the ports for other GNU tools you want and you've got what they made.
You could probably write a fairly trivial sh script to do this on a generic FBSD install.
This is just a typical 'We did it because we can and we wanted to' type of thing the way I see it.
You use the FBSD kernel because its going to have the largest driver base compared to the other two for hardware that people care about, although NetBSD can't be far behind it. OpenBSD is just a bitch thats not worth the effort to deal with for any reason since it has no real advantage over a FBSD 'Minimal' install, possibly with some config tweaks but it won't be many.
The one shining thing you can get, is a native ZFS implementation, though by using an old kernel they've kinda killed that idea since the version in that kernel is not really production ready. You get jails, which are nice for some purposes, but with paravirtualized linux on linux and enough ram its really not that big of a deal. They also claim that you get the advantage of the debian package system, but other than a gui I see no outstanding advantage over the FBSD package system, with the exception that I think they still don't make a screen package due to some kernel interface issues that break it when used with a kernel compiled with slightly different options, its never been a problem for me, I build and distribute screen internally to our BSD boxes without 'noticing' a problem.
TFA has more reasons why you might want to do it, but they all seem pretty weak to me, but I'm a FBSD person, and don't care for Linux that much, so my bias is probably not helping.
As a general rule, as soon as someone starts talking about general relativity or quantum mechanics, its a load of bullshit.
The guys who have the best understanding of this stuff will stand right up and say 'we really don't have any idea, but this is our current best guess based on what we see.'.
When you get someone who says 'this is how it works, I know' then its a sure sign they have no idea whats going on.
I on the other hand, really know very little, not meaning that I fall into that first group, I don't:) I just know that most of the time the problem with these sort of things is that the experiment failed to separate the observers perspective from the equation.
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Or, you could save yourself a shitload of time and just realize that...
NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR SEARCHES OR WHAT YOU DO ONLINE.
Seriously, give it a try, trust me, no one gives a shit about you so all the crap you suggest someone setup is just a waste of time.
You realize you just quoted the way it works in pretty much every job in existence right?
IT isn't unique in this aspect, sorry to burst your bubble.
Part of your job is to know how to educate your customers (internal or external) on how it works, how long it will take, what can delay it, and how much it will cost.
You aren't experiencing anything that isn't experienced in just about every other profession in the world. You just aren't good at the business aspect of your job from the sound of it.
All that is really easy to solve and in fact is solved by any accountant with half a clue, perhaps even as little as a 1/4 of a clue.
IT Bills the rest of the company for its work and services.
Thats all it takes. IT is no longer a cost center, its now an internal profit center. No money actually has to change hands of course, but it puts real value on the services that they provide and gives everyone a little perspective.
If they decide they don't want to spend the money on IT because they see how much you bill out to other divisions, then you know what? They were going to cut IT anyway.
Of course, the real problem is that this discussion is not being done by professionals, but rather a bunch of guys who think because they have a tax id number that they are professionals and know what they are doing.
The only thing I can see is Google would use their leverage over Firefox to get Firefox to switch from the Gecko to WebKit.
Doing so would require a 100% rewrite of Firefox, WebKit does not do what Gecko does. WebKit is a rendering engine, Gecko is an application toolkit that is focused around rendering markup languages (XUL, HTML, ect).
If you rewrite Firefox with Gecko... you've got Chrome or Safari, which is pretty pointless. Every addon and every extension would need to be reworked. This wouldn't happen, and if it did, I'd be the first to stop using a software package produced by such an amazingly dumb group of developers (which they would be if they 'switched to webkit')
It would be annoying if they switched to a different default, because that would be one more customization step every time I install Firefox.
WTF is with you people? How damn often are you installing Firefox? Do you destroy machines that often or do you do it as part of an IT job, in which case you should have customized your own installer by now.
Perhaps your university students need a little real world education in retarded investing then? College students do stupid shit all the time, this is a great example of such. They spend more time worrying about 'the cause' than they do thinking about it, and as a general rule, end up facilitating 'the problem' rather than helping 'the cause'.
Yours is a great example. 'Lets help the underdog!', when 'the underdog' needed no help what so ever.
What makes me sick to my stomach is that the idiot professors encourage them on this sort of shit because they are so disconnected from reality that they haven't got a clue whats actually going on in the real world.
While you were getting sick to your stomach, you should have consider maybe enlightening your students about these sort of events rather than watching them. You've pretty much admitted fault for their actions. Good job teach, you stood by and watched them donate time and money of their own and didn't do anything to stop them did you? Probably a good plan. If you made them think about what people are actually worth at their jobs, they'd probably realize they were wasting a lot of money in your class listening to you ramble on.
An editor that compares to the Flash Authoring tools.
Thats it.
There isn't anything special in Flash that can't be done with Batik or Opera's latest SVG implementations except sound and video, which you can handle in HTML5.
The only thing thats needed is a good authoring toolset so that graphics gimps can produce their warez without having to use notepad.
DoABC means execute a precompiled script. I've been converting a BUNCH of flash to SVG recently and I've yet to come across a flash file that used precompiled script.
Second, 'ActionScript 3' is still JavaScript, it really isn't any different, and there is already code out there to execute it.
You should probably stop reading marketing garbage and read the file format specs a little closer.
If you look at the changes to flash since the beginning, the format has't changed a lot over the years. Once you get the base down for v1, the rest is mostly trivial changes like adding support for new image formats or more efficient use of various tags by passing in new/more vars.
Why gnash doesn't have support for the recent formats is beyond me, the newer formats change less and less. Somewhere between 6-8, the only change was a single modification to an existing tag. Most of the time its just things like 'this tags now support 32bit color instead of 24 or 15'
What you get on that outside wall wouldn't be a spot generated by the laser, at that point the 'spot' would appear (if you were on the wall, and not at the sun) as a line due to the beam being spread out by your turning around in circles.
This is all just a matter of perspective and is otherwise nothing new. The laser beam isn't projecting a 'dot' when its moving, even though most of the time it is perceived as such.
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Two groups that are so utterly disconnected from the real world that they both have no idea why their favorite toy hasn't taken over the world even those its the simplest, most efficient, easiest to use, most feature rich (insert whatever here) on the planet.
Most of both groups probably think grandma knows assembly as well.
There are far easier ways to commit click fraud than actually looking at the screen to do it. The ad companies tend to ignore the same request multiple times from the same IP so this changes nothing.
People who commit 'click fraud' aren't writing crappy little screen scrapers to do it, its far easier and faster to write a plugin for firefox to do what you're say and just find the text of your ad on the page and trigger the link. No need to futz with whats displayed or 'moving the mouse' to the right spot, you just tell Firefox to find the link and trigger it.
A relatively simple WebKit wrapper would work equally well.
I can think of at least 3 ways of doing (scripting gui apps that aren't scriptable) already that have been around for years.
Why is it that we can put something in orbit to avoid the atmosphere losses, but then beam it down through the same atmosphere they are avoiding in order to use it on the ground.
Seems to me like you're going to have the same parasitic losses.
It was a wearable computer. Had an address book, calculator, alarms, timers, and whatever else I'm forgetting.
It was cool as shit for a kid, but it was a rather big pain in the ass to use, and all in all not real useful since the screen was the size of a postage stamp.
We're trying to fix our exploited MacBooks so we can post, now sod off!
No, but when they bring in external contributors to entropy they can be as sufficiently random as any source you can come up with.
Interestingly enough, I just started Win7 on mine and the boot camp drivers were ready for patching :/
'Because we can' is the answer you are looking for I think.
Considering what they've done (most of it anyway) can be accomplished with a few flags to make.conf anyway, its not exactly impressive. Tell the system to use glibc instead of its native libc, then rebuild world (to rebuild the built in GNU tools with glibc) and build the ports for other GNU tools you want and you've got what they made.
You could probably write a fairly trivial sh script to do this on a generic FBSD install.
This is just a typical 'We did it because we can and we wanted to' type of thing the way I see it.
You use the FBSD kernel because its going to have the largest driver base compared to the other two for hardware that people care about, although NetBSD can't be far behind it. OpenBSD is just a bitch thats not worth the effort to deal with for any reason since it has no real advantage over a FBSD 'Minimal' install, possibly with some config tweaks but it won't be many.
The one shining thing you can get, is a native ZFS implementation, though by using an old kernel they've kinda killed that idea since the version in that kernel is not really production ready. You get jails, which are nice for some purposes, but with paravirtualized linux on linux and enough ram its really not that big of a deal. They also claim that you get the advantage of the debian package system, but other than a gui I see no outstanding advantage over the FBSD package system, with the exception that I think they still don't make a screen package due to some kernel interface issues that break it when used with a kernel compiled with slightly different options, its never been a problem for me, I build and distribute screen internally to our BSD boxes without 'noticing' a problem.
TFA has more reasons why you might want to do it, but they all seem pretty weak to me, but I'm a FBSD person, and don't care for Linux that much, so my bias is probably not helping.
That obvious eh? :)
As a general rule, as soon as someone starts talking about general relativity or quantum mechanics, its a load of bullshit.
The guys who have the best understanding of this stuff will stand right up and say 'we really don't have any idea, but this is our current best guess based on what we see.'.
When you get someone who says 'this is how it works, I know' then its a sure sign they have no idea whats going on.
I on the other hand, really know very little, not meaning that I fall into that first group, I don't :) I just know that most of the time the problem with these sort of things is that the experiment failed to separate the observers perspective from the equation.
Or, you could save yourself a shitload of time and just realize that ...
NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR SEARCHES OR WHAT YOU DO ONLINE.
Seriously, give it a try, trust me, no one gives a shit about you so all the crap you suggest someone setup is just a waste of time.
Sure you would, and you'd pay for all your software if it was reasonably priced as well I'm sure.
I can go to Walmart and get a better machine with Windows already on it for half the price.
For the second time I ask, who do I have to suck off to get my shitty product slashvertised?
You realize you just quoted the way it works in pretty much every job in existence right?
IT isn't unique in this aspect, sorry to burst your bubble.
Part of your job is to know how to educate your customers (internal or external) on how it works, how long it will take, what can delay it, and how much it will cost.
You aren't experiencing anything that isn't experienced in just about every other profession in the world. You just aren't good at the business aspect of your job from the sound of it.
All that is really easy to solve and in fact is solved by any accountant with half a clue, perhaps even as little as a 1/4 of a clue.
IT Bills the rest of the company for its work and services.
Thats all it takes. IT is no longer a cost center, its now an internal profit center. No money actually has to change hands of course, but it puts real value on the services that they provide and gives everyone a little perspective.
If they decide they don't want to spend the money on IT because they see how much you bill out to other divisions, then you know what? They were going to cut IT anyway.
Of course, the real problem is that this discussion is not being done by professionals, but rather a bunch of guys who think because they have a tax id number that they are professionals and know what they are doing.
Doing so would require a 100% rewrite of Firefox, WebKit does not do what Gecko does. WebKit is a rendering engine, Gecko is an application toolkit that is focused around rendering markup languages (XUL, HTML, ect).
If you rewrite Firefox with Gecko ... you've got Chrome or Safari, which is pretty pointless. Every addon and every extension would need to be reworked. This wouldn't happen, and if it did, I'd be the first to stop using a software package produced by such an amazingly dumb group of developers (which they would be if they 'switched to webkit')
WTF is with you people? How damn often are you installing Firefox? Do you destroy machines that often or do you do it as part of an IT job, in which case you should have customized your own installer by now.
Perhaps your university students need a little real world education in retarded investing then? College students do stupid shit all the time, this is a great example of such. They spend more time worrying about 'the cause' than they do thinking about it, and as a general rule, end up facilitating 'the problem' rather than helping 'the cause'.
Yours is a great example. 'Lets help the underdog!', when 'the underdog' needed no help what so ever.
What makes me sick to my stomach is that the idiot professors encourage them on this sort of shit because they are so disconnected from reality that they haven't got a clue whats actually going on in the real world.
While you were getting sick to your stomach, you should have consider maybe enlightening your students about these sort of events rather than watching them. You've pretty much admitted fault for their actions. Good job teach, you stood by and watched them donate time and money of their own and didn't do anything to stop them did you? Probably a good plan. If you made them think about what people are actually worth at their jobs, they'd probably realize they were wasting a lot of money in your class listening to you ramble on.
An editor that compares to the Flash Authoring tools.
Thats it.
There isn't anything special in Flash that can't be done with Batik or Opera's latest SVG implementations except sound and video, which you can handle in HTML5.
The only thing thats needed is a good authoring toolset so that graphics gimps can produce their warez without having to use notepad.
DoABC means execute a precompiled script. I've been converting a BUNCH of flash to SVG recently and I've yet to come across a flash file that used precompiled script.
Second, 'ActionScript 3' is still JavaScript, it really isn't any different, and there is already code out there to execute it.
You should probably stop reading marketing garbage and read the file format specs a little closer.
If you look at the changes to flash since the beginning, the format has't changed a lot over the years. Once you get the base down for v1, the rest is mostly trivial changes like adding support for new image formats or more efficient use of various tags by passing in new/more vars.
Why gnash doesn't have support for the recent formats is beyond me, the newer formats change less and less. Somewhere between 6-8, the only change was a single modification to an existing tag. Most of the time its just things like 'this tags now support 32bit color instead of 24 or 15'
Or better still, we could just stop using PDFs on the web.
Better STILL would be to stop using PDFs and stick with a standard document format ... like I don't know ... H T M L.
What you get on that outside wall wouldn't be a spot generated by the laser, at that point the 'spot' would appear (if you were on the wall, and not at the sun) as a line due to the beam being spread out by your turning around in circles.
This is all just a matter of perspective and is otherwise nothing new. The laser beam isn't projecting a 'dot' when its moving, even though most of the time it is perceived as such.
The spots won't be moving faster than light, they will actually be a blur or line spread across the surfaces they hit.
You're confusing perception with reality, and they are two very different things.