Actually, this isn't true. If you work for a company as a W2 employee, half of the social security payment is deducted from your stated salary, and half is paid for by the company. If you're a 1099 consultant, you're responsible for the full payment. The only difference is that if you're 1099'd, the payment is calculated based on your "entire" salary, not your salary minus healthcare and 1/2 social security. Although for many people with this type of problem they've already hit the cap on social security payments (IIRC its reached at around $90k salary per year), so the issue is moot anyway.
Personally, I'd love to see all standard paystubs include the tax and healthcare payments made by the corporation on behalf of the employee as additional line items. Maybe then people would understand, for example, just how expensive "free" corporate-provided healthcare actually is...
The pictures of the articles with and without Reader - that show up very nicely when reading with Reader, FWIW - don't exactly help his case, either. The google ad on the top-left dramatically interferes with reading comprehension, especially since it takes up approximately half of the usable width in the middle of an unordered list. The fact that Reader mutes his garishly colored repeating background isn't exactly a bad thing, either.
Here you go then: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ - works through a bookmarklet and its the code that the Safari Reader was itself based on (Apache license, credit given by Apple in their notes).
It wasn't so much "wrong" as it was OUTDATED. That doesn't make it a troll exactly.
Considering that the comment was made on a thread talking, specifically, about the newly released Mini, complaining about it by using the current price and the older model design is, indeed, "wrong"... and pretty trollish.
Of course, when Knuth was writing, there was no disk-backed memory and, IIRC, no processor cache (unless you happen to count leftover register values as cache)... 46 years is a long time in CS. I dare say that if he was writing his seminal works today, he might either expand on the subject or preface it with a series of provisos.
You're not forced to run those services as root. You can have something open the port then drop root privileges.
From an exploit standpoint, once its running as root, even for "just a little bit", you're vulnerable.
Or you can set up firewall rules or a proxy of some sort to forward everything from the lower-numbered port onto a higher port, and not need the server software to ever be root at all.
This is a bit better, assuming you can trust your proxy:)
Because spraying crap onto a page is pretty imprecise, relatively speaking?
That, and because people are impressed by numbers even when meaningless. Some of our wedding photos were taking (back in '03) on a low megapixel camera by todays standards - ~3mp IIRC. They make great 18x24 prints - far better than the crap you get from a normal $100 12mp "OMG" brand camera. But guess where mass manufacturers are focusing? Yup, purely on resolution, because its the only area where theres a number that can be compared to (and thus "better than") the competition.
Actually a pretty interesting case. It wasn't that the game was hard, but it was hard enough to be considered a game of luck, rather than skill, which therefore counted as gambling rather than whatever it was not-permitted as. And, of course, running a gambling game requires rather more in the way of permits and rules. Well ruled, that judge!
Actually, that's not the case - I don't believe that PCI mandates "good" encryption, just encryption. Besides, one thing that it absolutely does mandate, at least for service providers (the portion of PCI I'm most familiar with), is that your database be in a different, firewalled, network segment than your application server. So even if GP is creating accounts on the DB server, nobody other than the application should be able to just connect to it anyway. Of course, having just gone through our audit, I'd guess that an awful lot of people are probably failing PCI in one way or another... still worth crossing the Ts and dotting the Is.
You need to be moving a lot more than $50,000 a month to get that kind of pricing for card-not-present, even as a well-established business. That's generally the "teaser" rate and doesn't include amex, rewards cards, international cards, etc etc. A blended rate of 2.25%-2.5% at the end of the day is actually pretty good.
Typically, the way that this is resolved in code is that the code will dictate requirements. Shortly after the code is updated, one or more people will submit various details to the city (or whatever org owns the code) to confirm that they meet code. Sometimes the city will do this itself. Once "blessed", they may be incorporated by reference as standard details, and the reviewer/contractor/engineer/etc all know that that part has been independently verified to meet code when used in the manner for which it was approved. So the examples are there for all to use, but not part of the code itself. Anyone with a novel solution will weigh the costs (additional approval time/money) verses the benefits, and decide whether or not to use them.
Its not exactly regex. Its ed syntax (also used by sed and vi, amongst many other things)... a very basic form.
Think "command/parameters" where command is "s" (substitute) and parameters will be in the form "from/to"
A lot of common regex parsers use much of the same root syntax that ed does, but ed commands build from there to create modifications based on those patterns.
I wouldn't call it sabotage, just incompetence. Apple's been telling them to fix it for quite a few years, but it seems that they can't be bothered to learn the rudiments of how to write threaded code.
-jcr
But if it works on Linux and Windows, on the exact same hardware, how is this entirely Adobe's problem?
Because it's not the exact same software. And that part, including the totally borked idle loop, is written by Adobe. Or did you miss the fact that none of the other OSX apps seem to share this idle-loop-until-killed stupidity?
Adobe would bend over backwards to make flash work in the iPhone or iPad to Steve Job's satisfaction.
Really? Then why is the Adobe-provided Flash VM for OSX such a complete piece of crap? Trivial flash applications often consume 100% of a core when they run just fine in the Windows VM. And since its a very common issue with that combination, but most other cross-platform systems perform within a few percentage points (+/-) on Windows vs OSX on the same hardware, I have to point the finger at the Adobe developers.
Now either their just incompetent, or there's malicious intent somewhere. I have no idea which. But that's the reason that Flash has such a bad rep in the Apple domain.
If flash/flex apps sucked on iPhone or iPad then it would not be a problem for Apple because no one would bother to use them.
Unless they ran every time someone visited a webpage in Safari with a flash ad, and drained the users' batteries...
It's (void *)0 in C, and 0 or 0L in C++. Also, there were architectures way back where memory address 0 wasn't a guaranteed segfault. It had a different value there.
0 had a different value? Like, uh, 7? Wow... that must have made life complicated.
Unless you think that the Citicards' website (which just recently started to allow FF from Windows, but still bugs out with Linux),... are somehow irrelevant, such sites are pretty commonplace.
Hmm. I use the Citicards website, haven't had a Windows PC in many years, generally use Safari, sometimes use FF, and never had a problem. With them, or with pretty much anyone in fact. The last place I remember - and this was years ago - was having to switch into FF rather than Safari to deal with the MSDN Universal license key generating webpage.
People love complaining about this, but I'm really not sure that its a significant problem any more.
I've had objectionable stuff pop up through ad-blockers before when randomly surfing as well that I'd like to report (not even sure if it was legit or not, closed windows fast)... but haven't, for that very fear. Sad, but what can you do? I'm certainly not going to incur thousands of dollars of legal fees to try to figure out the "right" way to report something that would probably either be ignored, on a jurisdiction that the police are unable to do anything about, or might get me accused of a felony. If it turns out its even illegal.
To make the gen ed students sit through 15 pages of background material when all they need to pass the class is F=ma is a giant waste of their time, and that time could be better used to cover additional (basic-level) material.
Actually, I'd argue that learning about the process of discovery - something that is applicable to just about every discipline - is far more important than learning F=ma, which is something that's a) not very useful for most people, and b) easily found in publicly available reference material. Learning that Newton didn't just discover everything because he was hit by an apple should have been far more valuable.
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Actually, this isn't true. If you work for a company as a W2 employee, half of the social security payment is deducted from your stated salary, and half is paid for by the company. If you're a 1099 consultant, you're responsible for the full payment. The only difference is that if you're 1099'd, the payment is calculated based on your "entire" salary, not your salary minus healthcare and 1/2 social security. Although for many people with this type of problem they've already hit the cap on social security payments (IIRC its reached at around $90k salary per year), so the issue is moot anyway.
Personally, I'd love to see all standard paystubs include the tax and healthcare payments made by the corporation on behalf of the employee as additional line items. Maybe then people would understand, for example, just how expensive "free" corporate-provided healthcare actually is...
The pictures of the articles with and without Reader - that show up very nicely when reading with Reader, FWIW - don't exactly help his case, either. The google ad on the top-left dramatically interferes with reading comprehension, especially since it takes up approximately half of the usable width in the middle of an unordered list. The fact that Reader mutes his garishly colored repeating background isn't exactly a bad thing, either.
Here you go then: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ - works through a bookmarklet and its the code that the Safari Reader was itself based on (Apache license, credit given by Apple in their notes).
Almost exactly how...
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It wasn't so much "wrong" as it was OUTDATED. That doesn't make it a troll exactly.
Considering that the comment was made on a thread talking, specifically, about the newly released Mini, complaining about it by using the current price and the older model design is, indeed, "wrong"... and pretty trollish.
Of course, when Knuth was writing, there was no disk-backed memory and, IIRC, no processor cache (unless you happen to count leftover register values as cache)... 46 years is a long time in CS. I dare say that if he was writing his seminal works today, he might either expand on the subject or preface it with a series of provisos.
You're not forced to run those services as root. You can have something open the port then drop root privileges.
From an exploit standpoint, once its running as root, even for "just a little bit", you're vulnerable.
Or you can set up firewall rules or a proxy of some sort to forward everything from the lower-numbered port onto a higher port, and not need the server software to ever be root at all.
This is a bit better, assuming you can trust your proxy :)
Although in most fields, 1 arc minute is considered a "realistic" (as opposed to theoretically possible) angular resolution for real people...
Because spraying crap onto a page is pretty imprecise, relatively speaking?
That, and because people are impressed by numbers even when meaningless. Some of our wedding photos were taking (back in '03) on a low megapixel camera by todays standards - ~3mp IIRC. They make great 18x24 prints - far better than the crap you get from a normal $100 12mp "OMG" brand camera. But guess where mass manufacturers are focusing? Yup, purely on resolution, because its the only area where theres a number that can be compared to (and thus "better than") the competition.
Yes, but most people keep their monitors further from their faces than they do their celphones.
Actually a pretty interesting case. It wasn't that the game was hard, but it was hard enough to be considered a game of luck, rather than skill, which therefore counted as gambling rather than whatever it was not-permitted as. And, of course, running a gambling game requires rather more in the way of permits and rules. Well ruled, that judge!
Actually, that's not the case - I don't believe that PCI mandates "good" encryption, just encryption. Besides, one thing that it absolutely does mandate, at least for service providers (the portion of PCI I'm most familiar with), is that your database be in a different, firewalled, network segment than your application server. So even if GP is creating accounts on the DB server, nobody other than the application should be able to just connect to it anyway. Of course, having just gone through our audit, I'd guess that an awful lot of people are probably failing PCI in one way or another... still worth crossing the Ts and dotting the Is.
Have you ever written an FTP client? Its about the least friendly protocol to just hack something together with.
You need to be moving a lot more than $50,000 a month to get that kind of pricing for card-not-present, even as a well-established business. That's generally the "teaser" rate and doesn't include amex, rewards cards, international cards, etc etc. A blended rate of 2.25%-2.5% at the end of the day is actually pretty good.
Its hard to go wrong with Dreamhost. Not perfect, of course, but very good value for very little money, and they've been around forever.
And even after all that, we still had to use a holepuncher before we could flip it over. I don't know, kids today with their double side...
Huh? DVDs are single sided again? Hmm... lemme get my holepuncher back out...
Typically, the way that this is resolved in code is that the code will dictate requirements. Shortly after the code is updated, one or more people will submit various details to the city (or whatever org owns the code) to confirm that they meet code. Sometimes the city will do this itself. Once "blessed", they may be incorporated by reference as standard details, and the reviewer/contractor/engineer/etc all know that that part has been independently verified to meet code when used in the manner for which it was approved. So the examples are there for all to use, but not part of the code itself. Anyone with a novel solution will weigh the costs (additional approval time/money) verses the benefits, and decide whether or not to use them.
Its not exactly regex. Its ed syntax (also used by sed and vi, amongst many other things)... a very basic form.
Think "command/parameters" where command is "s" (substitute) and parameters will be in the form "from/to"
A lot of common regex parsers use much of the same root syntax that ed does, but ed commands build from there to create modifications based on those patterns.
I wouldn't call it sabotage, just incompetence. Apple's been telling them to fix it for quite a few years, but it seems that they can't be bothered to learn the rudiments of how to write threaded code.
-jcr
But if it works on Linux and Windows, on the exact same hardware, how is this entirely Adobe's problem?
Because it's not the exact same software. And that part, including the totally borked idle loop, is written by Adobe. Or did you miss the fact that none of the other OSX apps seem to share this idle-loop-until-killed stupidity?
Adobe would bend over backwards to make flash work in the iPhone or iPad to Steve Job's satisfaction.
Really? Then why is the Adobe-provided Flash VM for OSX such a complete piece of crap? Trivial flash applications often consume 100% of a core when they run just fine in the Windows VM. And since its a very common issue with that combination, but most other cross-platform systems perform within a few percentage points (+/-) on Windows vs OSX on the same hardware, I have to point the finger at the Adobe developers.
Now either their just incompetent, or there's malicious intent somewhere. I have no idea which. But that's the reason that Flash has such a bad rep in the Apple domain.
If flash/flex apps sucked on iPhone or iPad then it would not be a problem for Apple because no one would bother to use them.
Unless they ran every time someone visited a webpage in Safari with a flash ad, and drained the users' batteries...
It's (void *)0 in C, and 0 or 0L in C++. Also, there were architectures way back where memory address 0 wasn't a guaranteed segfault. It had a different value there.
0 had a different value? Like, uh, 7? Wow... that must have made life complicated.
Unless you think that the Citicards' website (which just recently started to allow FF from Windows, but still bugs out with Linux),... are somehow irrelevant, such sites are pretty commonplace.
Hmm. I use the Citicards website, haven't had a Windows PC in many years, generally use Safari, sometimes use FF, and never had a problem. With them, or with pretty much anyone in fact. The last place I remember - and this was years ago - was having to switch into FF rather than Safari to deal with the MSDN Universal license key generating webpage.
People love complaining about this, but I'm really not sure that its a significant problem any more.
I've had objectionable stuff pop up through ad-blockers before when randomly surfing as well that I'd like to report (not even sure if it was legit or not, closed windows fast) ... but haven't, for that very fear. Sad, but what can you do? I'm certainly not going to incur thousands of dollars of legal fees to try to figure out the "right" way to report something that would probably either be ignored, on a jurisdiction that the police are unable to do anything about, or might get me accused of a felony. If it turns out its even illegal.
They didn't lay the fiber--they bought it. Before YouTube came into existence.
Fine. Let me rephrase the GP: "The cost involved in buying fiber is far from free."
Actually, I'd argue that learning about the process of discovery - something that is applicable to just about every discipline - is far more important than learning F=ma, which is something that's a) not very useful for most people, and b) easily found in publicly available reference material. Learning that Newton didn't just discover everything because he was hit by an apple should have been far more valuable.