Actually, they keep messing with OS X. 10.6 just saw few user-facing changes; most of the new stuff was only of interest to developers. Of course Apple has announced virtually nothing new for 10.7 but then again that's SOP for them until shortly before the launch. I expect new features to be announced later.
As with any sufficiently large project, some parts of OS X are in developent mode, some are in support mode and some are only in support mode becuse they aren't quite old enough yet to drop outright. I don't doubt that KDE is similar in that regard.
It interleaves. It plays the left channel for 1 ms, then the right channel for 1 ms, then it repeats. Of course this means that the audio takes twice as long to play so each chunk is played back at twice the normal speed.
Right now upon hearing "primitive photographic process" and "imprints the rough silhouette of a human onto fabric", the only thing I can think of is a nuclear explosion. I don't know why but for some reason I think the bible would have been more awesome if the Romans had nuked Jesus.
27 And Pontius Pilatus said: 28 "I say we shall smite him with nuclear weapons from atop the Mount Zion. 29 It is the only way to be sure."
CSI 1850: "Constable, use the power of science in conjunction with this here microscrope to enhance the daguerrotype to henceforth unknown levels of detail!" - "Certainly, sir!"
CSI 2000: "Give me a 2000x magnification on that 320x240 low-quality JPEG. Now zoom in on his finger and run what you see through our fingerprint database."
CSI 2150: "The perpetrator has left no traces. We have nothing." - "Let's just ride our unicorns through the heliosheath until they sweat liquid justice!" - "Huzzah!"
No. A solution that isn't 100% effective with no downsides whatsoever is not a solution. This is plain to see from just about any discussion on any topic ever.
I recommend Ghostery. Detects and optionally blocks tracking sites and receives updates every once in a while to keep up with new ones. I just had a look and sure enough they already know about Demandbase.
The info page reveals that Demandbase offers to track "all Web site visitors in your target market, including those who do not submit their contact information" and allow you to "integrate them with your direct marketing programs - from email campaigns to telesales". So yeah, they advertise knowing uncomfortably much (from the trackee's perspective) about your visitors.
Note that at the same time Mozilla is still pushing out features nobody else has. Firefox 4 will have native support for tab groups, a feature no other browser supports even through add-ons. For those of us who have to juggle large numbers of tabs that's a killer feature right there.
That's the nice thing about an active, unencumbered market: Everyone forces everyone else to innovate. Sandboxing is on its way to Firefox and mabe other browsers will see the appeal of tab groups and incorporate those. And people don't sue each other over technology they had first...
Actually, the news is less "woo, Firefox is faster than the rest" but more "woo, Firefox is no longer abysmally slow". There's a reason why Mozilla called the website where they compare the speed of their current JavaScript engine build with other browsers' engines "Are we fast yet?", not "Are we faster yet?".
Firefox 4.0.1 is actually a release I'm really looking forward to. Yes, 4.0.1; there's a missing feature that ruins Fx4's implementation of tab groups for me but I submitted the request after 4.0 underwent feature freeze. Should be small enough to make it into.0.1 though.
I use a Mac and not because of Apple-only software. In my case it's because the MBP is price-competitive (other lines have a heavy Apple tax but the MacBook and more so the MBP don't), well-built and has a great operating system. OS X behaves the way I expect it to, offers me the full power of Unix and has little gimmicks like flawlessly working hibernate out of the box.
Could I do what I do on Linux? Yes. In fact, I did. OS X just has the best GUI on the market (YMMV, of course) and offers other notebook-friendly things that you rarely see elsewhere. Multitouch, for instance, is not exactly a killer feaure but very convenient.
You need to be aware of some things with Apple. Never buy a hard drive/SSD or RAM from them; they'll rob you blind. If you're a student you might want to go through a certified partner who offers better discounts than Apple (at least in Germany there is someone like that) and you'll still want to buy component upgrades elsewhere. Beyond that, though, I found Apple to be pleasant to deal with and their notebooks to be reasonably-priced. And since the switch to Intel they have improved their build quality big time.
Man, I hate those barbaric countries where they still have death penalty. Why can't we all just respawn at the nearest graveyeard, run over and loot our own corpse? Much more civilized.
But what if they suddenly decide that only App Store applications can run on OS X? I mean, besides destroying a good chunk of their technical user base, generating a shitload of bad press and annoying even their casual users as their favourite freeware apps won't be available anymore? Oh, right. Microsoft sending them a nice thank-you letter is what would happen.
Didn't Voyager enjoy conditions that made it really easy to quickly slingshot it towards the outer planets and out of the solar system? Your new extrasolar probe will probably require a longer time to get out there than Voyager 1 and 2 (cf. New Horizons).
Plus, we already have more than one mission examining the edge of the solar system; missions inside the solar system might produce more useful data in less time on a smaller budget.
If you're a hobbyist developer MySQL has a couple advantages. It's the usual database in ready-to-go web server packages for Windows, which means it's much more convenient on that platform. Also, many of the tutorials you find online assume MySQL. Last but not least, most cheap hosters give you a couple MySQL databases but if you want Postgres you'll often have to get a root server and install it yourself.
Yes, this boils down to "the network effects are on MySQL's side" but for people who don't need anything beyond an entry-level hosting package, who are new to databases or who want to develop locally on their Windows box with a minimum of hassle those are important arguments.
I'm dragging around a couple MySQL databases. Some I could move to Postgres but some would require me to move websites to new, more expensive hosters, transfer the domain over and generally spend time and money on nothing but the reassurance of not using an Oracle product. Is Postgres superior to MySQL? Probably. But no amount of superiority will make a difference to me (I don't even get close to putting a strain on my badly-configured MySQL servers) and thus inertia wins.
If you want to get people off MySQL you'll have to do something about the network effects. That means convincing more entry-level hosters to offer Postgres along with or instead of MySQL, convincing more LAMP packages to offer (and favor) Postgres and generally pushing Postgres as the database. MySQL wins because it's everywhere. For casual developers, there is no competition on the technological level; it's solely on brand recognition.
Unless you can largely displace MySQL from the public's eye casual developers will always flock to MySQL and stay there because Postgres doesn't offer any advantage to them. MySQL may be a toy but if a toy is all you need for the moment and the more powerful alternatives have next to zero shelf space the toy is what you're going to get.
Aren't most surveys anonymous to prevent exactly what you alleged? Do you have any evidence for this survey having been conducted in an inappropriate manner?
Well, yeah, I meant to imply "apart from TFA". This is Slashdot but I haven't progressed to a stage where I can't even be arsed to read the summary anymore.
Details? I mean, apart from the usual stories we hear about the Roman Catholic Church? Are there specific instances of the Finnish state church being out of sync with modern morals?
Depending on the game harassment can be fairly easy to acheive. I occasionally play Age of Empires 2 with a friend. While perhaps not by design, the AI does occasionally comes up with really annoying strategies. For example sending a bunch of militias into my base relatively early, accompanying a number of builders who immediately proceed to build a stone wall straight through my base. If you're playing on a space-constrained map that can really distract you and cost you a few minutes to completely get sorted out.
This kind of technique is difficult for a human player as it requires you to independently control a dozen builders at once while semi-effectively using the other units to distract the player.
AOE2 in general is a game where micromanagement can make a difference. For example, computer players usually harvest more lumber than humans unless the humans really emphasize lumber. Why? Because there are a lot of individual trees, each of which holds only a little bit of lumber. By micromanaging the builders assigned to harvesting wood you can ensure that they will always go for the trees closest to a lumber camp. Player-controlled builders tend to dig tunnels through the forest instead (they choose the tree closest to the one they just chopped down), which can be useful at times but makes them rather inefficient unless you keep building new lumber camps or spend a lot of time micromanaging them.
Of course this is offset by the computer's lack of tactial skill but in the early-to-mid game computer players can actually become threatening simply because the computer can efficiently build up his base while simultaneously harassing you.
Ask any Chiropractor, Naturopath or Homoeopath and they will all tell you the same thing: MODERN MEDICINE IS POISON
Ask any pharmacist and they will say the same. It's the whole point of modern medicine: You introduce a poison into the human body that is more effective at killing off certain germs than it is at causing damage to the human body. Or, in other cases, you introduce a poison in such low dosages that it counters something unwanted (such as high blood pressure) without causing more harm than good.
If you want to argue that introducing any poison in any dosage is bad I'll remind you that even tap water is lethal if ingested in sufficient quantities. Paracelsus had a point.
it's well-known that things taste less intensive in flying airplanes, not because the spices disappear but because our ability to taste them does. One side effect of that is that tomato juice is more popular on flights than elsewhere; it's one thing that doesn't taste completely bland.
This study tries to link the difference in taste to ambient noise; the usual other explanation is that it's altitude dependent. Of course both may be true.
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Actually, they keep messing with OS X. 10.6 just saw few user-facing changes; most of the new stuff was only of interest to developers. Of course Apple has announced virtually nothing new for 10.7 but then again that's SOP for them until shortly before the launch. I expect new features to be announced later.
As with any sufficiently large project, some parts of OS X are in developent mode, some are in support mode and some are only in support mode becuse they aren't quite old enough yet to drop outright. I don't doubt that KDE is similar in that regard.
It interleaves. It plays the left channel for 1 ms, then the right channel for 1 ms, then it repeats. Of course this means that the audio takes twice as long to play so each chunk is played back at twice the normal speed.
Or allowed bnetd-style local servers.
Right now upon hearing "primitive photographic process" and "imprints the rough silhouette of a human onto fabric", the only thing I can think of is a nuclear explosion. I don't know why but for some reason I think the bible would have been more awesome if the Romans had nuked Jesus.
27 And Pontius Pilatus said: 28 "I say we shall smite him with nuclear weapons from atop the Mount Zion. 29 It is the only way to be sure."
CSI 1850: "Constable, use the power of science in conjunction with this here microscrope to enhance the daguerrotype to henceforth unknown levels of detail!" - "Certainly, sir!"
CSI 2000: "Give me a 2000x magnification on that 320x240 low-quality JPEG. Now zoom in on his finger and run what you see through our fingerprint database."
CSI 2150: "The perpetrator has left no traces. We have nothing." - "Let's just ride our unicorns through the heliosheath until they sweat liquid justice!" - "Huzzah!"
No. A solution that isn't 100% effective with no downsides whatsoever is not a solution. This is plain to see from just about any discussion on any topic ever.
I recommend Ghostery. Detects and optionally blocks tracking sites and receives updates every once in a while to keep up with new ones. I just had a look and sure enough they already know about Demandbase.
The info page reveals that Demandbase offers to track "all Web site visitors in your target market, including those who do not submit their contact information" and allow you to "integrate them with your direct marketing programs - from email campaigns to telesales". So yeah, they advertise knowing uncomfortably much (from the trackee's perspective) about your visitors.
Ability to "tear out" a tab into its own window, and to re-combine tabs into existing windows (Opera, Chrome, IE9).
Has been supported for ages. Since 3.0, if I remember correctly, but at least since 3.5. And yes, it behaves exactly as you describe.
Note that at the same time Mozilla is still pushing out features nobody else has. Firefox 4 will have native support for tab groups, a feature no other browser supports even through add-ons. For those of us who have to juggle large numbers of tabs that's a killer feature right there.
That's the nice thing about an active, unencumbered market: Everyone forces everyone else to innovate. Sandboxing is on its way to Firefox and mabe other browsers will see the appeal of tab groups and incorporate those. And people don't sue each other over technology they had first...
Actually, the news is less "woo, Firefox is faster than the rest" but more "woo, Firefox is no longer abysmally slow". There's a reason why Mozilla called the website where they compare the speed of their current JavaScript engine build with other browsers' engines "Are we fast yet?", not "Are we faster yet?".
.0.1 though.
Firefox 4.0.1 is actually a release I'm really looking forward to. Yes, 4.0.1; there's a missing feature that ruins Fx4's implementation of tab groups for me but I submitted the request after 4.0 underwent feature freeze. Should be small enough to make it into
I use a Mac and not because of Apple-only software. In my case it's because the MBP is price-competitive (other lines have a heavy Apple tax but the MacBook and more so the MBP don't), well-built and has a great operating system. OS X behaves the way I expect it to, offers me the full power of Unix and has little gimmicks like flawlessly working hibernate out of the box.
Could I do what I do on Linux? Yes. In fact, I did. OS X just has the best GUI on the market (YMMV, of course) and offers other notebook-friendly things that you rarely see elsewhere. Multitouch, for instance, is not exactly a killer feaure but very convenient.
You need to be aware of some things with Apple. Never buy a hard drive/SSD or RAM from them; they'll rob you blind. If you're a student you might want to go through a certified partner who offers better discounts than Apple (at least in Germany there is someone like that) and you'll still want to buy component upgrades elsewhere. Beyond that, though, I found Apple to be pleasant to deal with and their notebooks to be reasonably-priced. And since the switch to Intel they have improved their build quality big time.
Man, I hate those barbaric countries where they still have death penalty. Why can't we all just respawn at the nearest graveyeard, run over and loot our own corpse? Much more civilized.
Huh. I guessed it was name, rank, organisation and mission. So close...
But what if they suddenly decide that only App Store applications can run on OS X? I mean, besides destroying a good chunk of their technical user base, generating a shitload of bad press and annoying even their casual users as their favourite freeware apps won't be available anymore? Oh, right. Microsoft sending them a nice thank-you letter is what would happen.
Didn't Voyager enjoy conditions that made it really easy to quickly slingshot it towards the outer planets and out of the solar system? Your new extrasolar probe will probably require a longer time to get out there than Voyager 1 and 2 (cf. New Horizons).
Plus, we already have more than one mission examining the edge of the solar system; missions inside the solar system might produce more useful data in less time on a smaller budget.
Both parts are down in Germany. "This video contains content form UMG. It is unavailable in your country."
The lack of real expertise on some (many?) subjects, the petty squabbles to protect inconsequential fiefdoms, zero accountability.
That seems to describe Wikipedia pretty well.
If you're a hobbyist developer MySQL has a couple advantages. It's the usual database in ready-to-go web server packages for Windows, which means it's much more convenient on that platform. Also, many of the tutorials you find online assume MySQL. Last but not least, most cheap hosters give you a couple MySQL databases but if you want Postgres you'll often have to get a root server and install it yourself.
Yes, this boils down to "the network effects are on MySQL's side" but for people who don't need anything beyond an entry-level hosting package, who are new to databases or who want to develop locally on their Windows box with a minimum of hassle those are important arguments.
I'm dragging around a couple MySQL databases. Some I could move to Postgres but some would require me to move websites to new, more expensive hosters, transfer the domain over and generally spend time and money on nothing but the reassurance of not using an Oracle product. Is Postgres superior to MySQL? Probably. But no amount of superiority will make a difference to me (I don't even get close to putting a strain on my badly-configured MySQL servers) and thus inertia wins.
If you want to get people off MySQL you'll have to do something about the network effects. That means convincing more entry-level hosters to offer Postgres along with or instead of MySQL, convincing more LAMP packages to offer (and favor) Postgres and generally pushing Postgres as the database. MySQL wins because it's everywhere. For casual developers, there is no competition on the technological level; it's solely on brand recognition.
Unless you can largely displace MySQL from the public's eye casual developers will always flock to MySQL and stay there because Postgres doesn't offer any advantage to them. MySQL may be a toy but if a toy is all you need for the moment and the more powerful alternatives have next to zero shelf space the toy is what you're going to get.
Aren't most surveys anonymous to prevent exactly what you alleged? Do you have any evidence for this survey having been conducted in an inappropriate manner?
Well, yeah, I meant to imply "apart from TFA". This is Slashdot but I haven't progressed to a stage where I can't even be arsed to read the summary anymore.
Details? I mean, apart from the usual stories we hear about the Roman Catholic Church? Are there specific instances of the Finnish state church being out of sync with modern morals?
Does playing Minecraft count? In that case I'm already on it.
Depending on the game harassment can be fairly easy to acheive. I occasionally play Age of Empires 2 with a friend. While perhaps not by design, the AI does occasionally comes up with really annoying strategies. For example sending a bunch of militias into my base relatively early, accompanying a number of builders who immediately proceed to build a stone wall straight through my base. If you're playing on a space-constrained map that can really distract you and cost you a few minutes to completely get sorted out.
This kind of technique is difficult for a human player as it requires you to independently control a dozen builders at once while semi-effectively using the other units to distract the player.
AOE2 in general is a game where micromanagement can make a difference. For example, computer players usually harvest more lumber than humans unless the humans really emphasize lumber. Why? Because there are a lot of individual trees, each of which holds only a little bit of lumber. By micromanaging the builders assigned to harvesting wood you can ensure that they will always go for the trees closest to a lumber camp. Player-controlled builders tend to dig tunnels through the forest instead (they choose the tree closest to the one they just chopped down), which can be useful at times but makes them rather inefficient unless you keep building new lumber camps or spend a lot of time micromanaging them.
Of course this is offset by the computer's lack of tactial skill but in the early-to-mid game computer players can actually become threatening simply because the computer can efficiently build up his base while simultaneously harassing you.
Ask any Chiropractor, Naturopath or Homoeopath and they will all tell you the same thing: MODERN MEDICINE IS POISON
Ask any pharmacist and they will say the same. It's the whole point of modern medicine: You introduce a poison into the human body that is more effective at killing off certain germs than it is at causing damage to the human body. Or, in other cases, you introduce a poison in such low dosages that it counters something unwanted (such as high blood pressure) without causing more harm than good.
If you want to argue that introducing any poison in any dosage is bad I'll remind you that even tap water is lethal if ingested in sufficient quantities. Paracelsus had a point.
it's well-known that things taste less intensive in flying airplanes, not because the spices disappear but because our ability to taste them does. One side effect of that is that tomato juice is more popular on flights than elsewhere; it's one thing that doesn't taste completely bland.
This study tries to link the difference in taste to ambient noise; the usual other explanation is that it's altitude dependent. Of course both may be true.