Since Mac OS 10.4 and later come with Xgrid already installed, it's very easy for your spare processor cycles to be
donated to science. A few clicks in your System Preferences, and you're done.
And if you still want to use jQuery for other JavaScript interface joy, it can handle JSON natively. (Other frameworks probably do too, I just happen to be a fan of jQuery.)
Are there any large speed difference in Safari, Opera and Firefox?
One test is to run SlickSpeed on different browsers. It tests the processing speed of various JavaScript frameworks (like jQuery, MooTools, etc.). Run this under IE, then under Firefox, then Safari. Try different platforms if you can. You'll see odd speed differences; for example, jQuery typically wins when using IE, while it loses terribly on Firefox.
Unfortunately, in rural areas, RFC 1149 datagram carriers may be actively destroyed for human sustenance. This would further increase latency, and could pose a significant security hole. In such network regions, packet sniffers tend to be numerous and very active, working on four-pronged mobility structures, and may occasionally carry fleas.
However, within this modality, the risk of VoIP being unscrupulously wiretapped is already very low, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
...an ever increasing number of people getting their information bought and sold and revealed all over the place until they finally demand to be in on the "knowing whats going on" like everyone else...
And then they will have to buy their own information just to find out what it is. Doesn't matter that you gave it up for free; if you want to know how it is being used or presented, it will cost you.
It will be kind of like the credit bureaus: you can get a free credit report from them (once a year) but if you want your All-Powerful Credit Score, you gotta pay. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but it's still You Paying For Your Own Info.
Seriously, years ago I saw a graduate project at Parsons School of Design in their Design & Technology department that was a video game in a urinal, sort of like the space aliens version mentioned in this article. For the public exhibit, they put out squirt guns so that men could play the game without being obscene, and women could play as well. I am pretty sure it was just water in the squirt guns....
I can easily see this being an issue, if perhaps, someone attacked your router and destroyed it in the middle of a counter-strike match or a WoW arena matchup, for example.
Umm... I'd see it as even more of an issue if you were a telecommuter and your VPN died. Corporate or government, there are many such staff.
Of course, this will be on the new list of "dog ate my homework" excuses: "Really boss, somebody bricked my router!"
"It is important to highlight that all systems used in the research pool were at the very least running PC Tool's ThreatFire and that because the technology is behavioral-based, the data refers to threats that actually executed and triggered our behavioral detection on the client machine", said PC Tools' CEO, Simon Clausen.
I don't use ThreatFire, but "behavioral-based" and "threats that actually executed" doesn't sound like a cookie. They could mean it, but it doesn't sound like it.
If American history is any indication, they will fail eventually even if it involves gunfire.
On the other hand, we didn't have television during any of the internal battles over our nation and its states... we might all rather sit on our butts and vote for the next American Idol instead.
Let's quote Carson herself: "No responsible person contends that insect-borne disease should be ignored.... Practical advice should be 'Spray as little as you possibly can' rather than 'Spray to the limit of your capacity'... Pressure on the pest population should always be as slight as possible."
Doesn't sound like she wanted to eliminate DDT, does it? Rather, she wanted its use scaled back from what she saw as excessive.
Did anyone else read where these ants kill fire ants?
Yeah, and "the ants also like to suck the sweet juices from plants, feed on such beneficial insects as ladybugs, and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken." So while I am all for eliminating fire ants, maybe not at the expense of ladybugs and endangered animals? (well, ok, it's just a prairie chicken)
I liked this part the best: "And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide." We're in trouble now.
How would you account for the millions of people through time who claim to have had visions, dreams, etc., from God? Some are shysters, but some claim it genuinely. Are they crazy?
At least one organization I work with uses Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS. It is based on XML/XSL and is arguable the most configuration, extendable, flexible CMS I have ever used (and I've used several, including Joomla, Typo3, and a few that were home-grown). The only downside is that you REALLY need to know XML/XSL if you expect to do anything nice with it. In any case, with proper setup, it can do all of the things you mentioned, and much more. E.g. it has a nice "data definitions" feature where you use XML to describe the interface that content editors see for a specific bit of content: put a date here, plain text here, WYSIWYG text there, select a file to link to, and an image file to display. Then you create some XSL to format all that into nice XHTML for when it gets published up to your web server as an HTML file (or PHP or JSP or whatever you want).
This is kind of promotional, I guess, but I am happy with it. It is overkill for small sites, but dang, the XML aspects of it are just beautiful.
You can run Windows in VMWare on a Mac intel system. Can you run Mac OS X in VMWare on a Windows system? Could you spoof the EFI, etc., within the virtual machine?
I have no idea if this is even feasible, or desirable... just curious.
You are absolutely right -- I was thinking stupid. (I could make some excuse like "I was thinking 900 and missed a zero" but actually I just wasn't thinking.)
I've seen billboards at 90mph too. Or even 120mph.
Agreed. I have used Verizon's EVDO service for years during my daily train commute along the Hudson River, to and from Manhattan. (In fact, I am typing this from the train. Beautiful sunny morning on the river today....) It is common and well-tested knowledge among regular riders that Verizon has the best signal strength and throughput on my particular route. AT&T works in places, Sprint works in places, and Verizon certainly cuts out in places, but overall, Verizon is definitely most reliable.
Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451, where the speed limit on highways has been raised really high (90 miles an hour?). In the story, billboards are stretched out double-width so that you can still read them at high speeds.
Well, let's look at the snippet from Microsoft's letter:
A good user experience of Blender on Windows is good for your
project/community and good for Microsoft. What we are trying to
understand is what file formats, which are not open or not fully open,
are impeding the optimal experience with your community. If this is an
important issue to your users then it also accrues to the experience in
Windows. I would like to know what feedback you might have received
regarding the files your users most often import and those they might
be having a sub-optimal experience with. Please also include in that
list any Microsoft files that you might have trouble with.
Suppose you are not Microsoft, but you were interested in this topic. What would you do? You would join the community, read the forums, look at the source code. You would e-mail the support lists with your question, instead of just specific programmers. "Hi, I'm new to this project, but I'm a really experienced Windows programmer and would like to help make Blender work better under Windows, do you have any auggestions?" That's how open source works. They should have approached this differently.
I agree that they might possibly be asking about improving the OS, but that seems to be a stretch -- are they really going to patch Windows just so Blender can work better?
Exactly so. If Microsoft really wants to improve the software... then commit your own programmers to the project and put your improvements back into the community.
Of course you have to keep it alive. In fact, now that you are brainless and lack sensing ability, you now have a great career ahead of you in government work!
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Since Mac OS 10.4 and later come with Xgrid already installed, it's very easy for your spare processor cycles to be donated to science. A few clicks in your System Preferences, and you're done.
Actually this is a better example.
And if you still want to use jQuery for other JavaScript interface joy, it can handle JSON natively. (Other frameworks probably do too, I just happen to be a fan of jQuery.)
One test is to run SlickSpeed on different browsers. It tests the processing speed of various JavaScript frameworks (like jQuery, MooTools, etc.). Run this under IE, then under Firefox, then Safari. Try different platforms if you can. You'll see odd speed differences; for example, jQuery typically wins when using IE, while it loses terribly on Firefox.
Unfortunately, in rural areas, RFC 1149 datagram carriers may be actively destroyed for human sustenance. This would further increase latency, and could pose a significant security hole. In such network regions, packet sniffers tend to be numerous and very active, working on four-pronged mobility structures, and may occasionally carry fleas.
However, within this modality, the risk of VoIP being unscrupulously wiretapped is already very low, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
And then they will have to buy their own information just to find out what it is. Doesn't matter that you gave it up for free; if you want to know how it is being used or presented, it will cost you.
It will be kind of like the credit bureaus: you can get a free credit report from them (once a year) but if you want your All-Powerful Credit Score, you gotta pay. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but it's still You Paying For Your Own Info.
Seriously, years ago I saw a graduate project at Parsons School of Design in their Design & Technology department that was a video game in a urinal, sort of like the space aliens version mentioned in this article. For the public exhibit, they put out squirt guns so that men could play the game without being obscene, and women could play as well. I am pretty sure it was just water in the squirt guns....
I can easily see this being an issue, if perhaps, someone attacked your router and destroyed it in the middle of a counter-strike match or a WoW arena matchup, for example.
Umm... I'd see it as even more of an issue if you were a telecommuter and your VPN died. Corporate or government, there are many such staff.
Of course, this will be on the new list of "dog ate my homework" excuses: "Really boss, somebody bricked my router!"
To quote TFA:
"It is important to highlight that all systems used in the research pool were at the very least running PC Tool's ThreatFire and that because the technology is behavioral-based, the data refers to threats that actually executed and triggered our behavioral detection on the client machine", said PC Tools' CEO, Simon Clausen.
I don't use ThreatFire, but "behavioral-based" and "threats that actually executed" doesn't sound like a cookie. They could mean it, but it doesn't sound like it.
Are you saying that Slashdot isn't an MMORPG?
If American history is any indication, they will fail eventually even if it involves gunfire.
On the other hand, we didn't have television during any of the internal battles over our nation and its states... we might all rather sit on our butts and vote for the next American Idol instead.
Let's quote Carson herself: "No responsible person contends that insect-borne disease should be ignored.... Practical advice should be 'Spray as little as you possibly can' rather than 'Spray to the limit of your capacity' ... Pressure on the pest population should always be as slight as possible."
Doesn't sound like she wanted to eliminate DDT, does it? Rather, she wanted its use scaled back from what she saw as excessive.
Right, because Rachel Carson must be a witch from hell itself for wanting to reduce pesticides that cause birth defects and death?
Did anyone else read where these ants kill fire ants?
Yeah, and "the ants also like to suck the sweet juices from plants, feed on such beneficial insects as ladybugs, and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken." So while I am all for eliminating fire ants, maybe not at the expense of ladybugs and endangered animals? (well, ok, it's just a prairie chicken)
I liked this part the best: "And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide." We're in trouble now.
Fair enough.
How would you account for the millions of people through time who claim to have had visions, dreams, etc., from God? Some are shysters, but some claim it genuinely. Are they crazy?
At least one organization I work with uses Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS. It is based on XML/XSL and is arguable the most configuration, extendable, flexible CMS I have ever used (and I've used several, including Joomla, Typo3, and a few that were home-grown). The only downside is that you REALLY need to know XML/XSL if you expect to do anything nice with it. In any case, with proper setup, it can do all of the things you mentioned, and much more. E.g. it has a nice "data definitions" feature where you use XML to describe the interface that content editors see for a specific bit of content: put a date here, plain text here, WYSIWYG text there, select a file to link to, and an image file to display. Then you create some XSL to format all that into nice XHTML for when it gets published up to your web server as an HTML file (or PHP or JSP or whatever you want).
This is kind of promotional, I guess, but I am happy with it. It is overkill for small sites, but dang, the XML aspects of it are just beautiful.
You can run Windows in VMWare on a Mac intel system. Can you run Mac OS X in VMWare on a Windows system? Could you spoof the EFI, etc., within the virtual machine?
I have no idea if this is even feasible, or desirable... just curious.
You are absolutely right -- I was thinking stupid. (I could make some excuse like "I was thinking 900 and missed a zero" but actually I just wasn't thinking.)
I've seen billboards at 90mph too. Or even 120mph.
Agreed. I have used Verizon's EVDO service for years during my daily train commute along the Hudson River, to and from Manhattan. (In fact, I am typing this from the train. Beautiful sunny morning on the river today....) It is common and well-tested knowledge among regular riders that Verizon has the best signal strength and throughput on my particular route. AT&T works in places, Sprint works in places, and Verizon certainly cuts out in places, but overall, Verizon is definitely most reliable.
I recently renewed my Verizon BroadbandAccess subscription, and the contract said 10gb in the fine print.
Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451, where the speed limit on highways has been raised really high (90 miles an hour?). In the story, billboards are stretched out double-width so that you can still read them at high speeds.
Well, let's look at the snippet from Microsoft's letter:
Suppose you are not Microsoft, but you were interested in this topic. What would you do? You would join the community, read the forums, look at the source code. You would e-mail the support lists with your question, instead of just specific programmers. "Hi, I'm new to this project, but I'm a really experienced Windows programmer and would like to help make Blender work better under Windows, do you have any auggestions?" That's how open source works. They should have approached this differently.
I agree that they might possibly be asking about improving the OS, but that seems to be a stretch -- are they really going to patch Windows just so Blender can work better?
Exactly so. If Microsoft really wants to improve the software... then commit your own programmers to the project and put your improvements back into the community.
Exactly what I was thinking. But it could be interpreted multiple ways: (a) it was criminals; (b) it was terrorists; (c) it was Microsoft.
Of course you have to keep it alive. In fact, now that you are brainless and lack sensing ability, you now have a great career ahead of you in government work!