You're suggesting that they pulled the ol' Turing act on him. I don't suspect this to be the case, as there were already reports of him seeking psychological care for gender identity disorder before even joining the military.
When I started at my current job, I began pair-programming with the system architect. Seeing him work before being expected to contribute helped me gain understanding of the state of the system, things that need to be done, and things that must be postponed due to complexity. Eventually, the architect moved on to a better job, and it became my task to fill the void - in part by emulating the actions of the former architect.
Complain all you want about how the developer left something unfinished. Realistically, he inspired the community while providing direction on a nascent project in an innovative fashion. Maybe he grew weary from all the input into his idea, maybe he genuinely felt his contribution had maxed out. Sometimes a developer has to move on to more inspiring work.
Oh no! Something has transcended the limits with which it was initially conceived! Quick, stuff it back in the bag! Only evil "profiteers" would ever want anything other than a text-only web.
My statement was specifically in regard to throwing out the baby with the bathwater by dropping backward compatibility, not whether the web should support text vs. graphics vs. video. It should certainly support additional media, but not at the expense of dropping support for established media.
Because nothing says "innovation!" like a thousand incompatible proprietary protocols - apart from maybe drawing some nebulous, unarticulated distinction between "apps" and "applications".
Ok, I'll refine my definitions: Application, before the iPhone, referred to software specifically compiled for an operating system. App, as defined by modern innovation, refers to anything you can do with a web browser and/or mobile phone (if I'm not mistaken). So I guess that helps with "unarticulated". Not so sure about "nebulous" other than to say the latter definition certainly is.
The proliferation of protocols argument seems more like a straw-man, but I'll comment that open standards and APIs help with this, and that I don't hear too many people complaining about the variety of video game console systems out there; competition and variety can be good when approached properly. On a side note, component-based software engineering attempts to solve the problems of "too many protocols", it's just that there are too few true universal components readily available to the developer.
Web applications using HTTP *are* using the client/server model, just an established special case. People forget this because the majority of effort goes into building upon abstractions of other abstractions. Developers that flock to the new model get easier deployment at the expense of programs efficiency. Then stackoverflow blows up with new users of PHP5 asking really basic questions, and it becomes impossible to sift through the bullshit to find anything pertaining to the less trendy yet established models, or find solutions for problems in mature applications. Then Google decides that searching for the word "right" should return results for the word "left". Then slashdot gets inundated with know-it-all ACs who fail at reading comprehension.
There's an entire universe of places to inject code, why must it always be on the very top of an already overburdened stack? Someone please invent something original at one of the lower layers that improves efficiency, or prevents bloat by addressing an underserved use-case, so that we don't end up with a swiss army knife that claims to be able to change your car's oil automatically.
Well, I wouldn't say "mostly". The bulk of the development centers around the engine implementations that exploit hardware such as DirectMedia. It's not like the Steam developers are using Javascript/HTML/CSS to provide actual gameplay, and it's certainly not the case that these developers are trying to transform the web browser to support a gaming engine. To clarify, I'm saying that the reason gamers use steam isn't because it's "in a web browser" or even "browser-oriented", they use it because it's an easy way to download and run native desktop games efficiently. Thus, Steam is mostly a desktop gaming platform, not a web "app".
You know what would really suck? If we decided to drop backwards compatibility simply because what was originally intended as a document sourcing and navigation solution has ended up in the hands of profiteers who want this document-oriented system to be used for 3D rendering. Yeah, HTML/CSS/Javascript can do that, but why use a screwdriver when a jackhammer is more appropriate?
Instead of saying "oh the web sucks because it's old, let's make it new", why not look at what the desktop environment has yet to deliver due to market fragmentation and misguided creative direction? There is much more to the Internet than what traverses ports 80 and 443, and it boggles my mind to think that instead of inventing new protocols and applications (not "apps") to get the job done in a better way - Steam is a great example of this - the popular idea is to say "well everyone has a web browser, let's find new ways to exploit it". It's lazy, uncreative thinking, like standing on the shoulders of giants and then deciding the giants need to be put to sleep because their clothes are no longer fashionable.
So, because there are multiple problems to solve, you call one of those problems "bullshit farcical propaganda"? While I certainly agree that the average voter needs to think critically, I don't think a defeatist attitude will solve anything.
Agreed. Mod me down all you want, but it won't change the fact that an incomprehensible comment with a link to salon.com somehow got modded insightful.
Just because you've hacked RAID into part of a backup strategy does not mean that backup is a standard use-case for RAID. It's far too easy for the wrong disk to get overwritten because of all the things RAID is set up to do by default. With rsync, you're telling the disks exactly which direction the data needs to flow.
In a production environment, there's also a greater chance of failure using RAID because of the whole "plugging / unplugging drives" thing. Sure, it's rare, but your operating system and/or motherboard may or may not enjoy having drives attached and detached from its SATA bus.
Hearing the above, a systems administrator would assume you're confused between the terms "backup" and "mirror". It's a non-standard use-case, so the admin that arrives after you've moved on to another job will have to deal with that confusion.
I think if anything, Thom Yorke is seeing the big picture, in which the labels still ultimately control everything, with or without facades such as Pandora or Spotify. It seems like the removal of their albums is more to provoke discussion than to promote a boycott.
With all due respect, fuck his political career. He cheated by committing voter fraud. If anything, we need fewer politicians who try to pull shit like this.
Ok, valid point. Why not implement these changes at the transport layer then? I'd venture a guess it's the same reasons security was pushed to the application layer (SSL, SSH, etc). It irks me to see the open web being destroyed by governments, so this news makes me think it'd be easier to embed backdoors, going from plaintext to binary.
Calling bullshit on your "bullshit" argument. You can't equate Indian culture with Korean culture just because they share deference and hierarchy. The two cultures are based around different ideology, language, and social norms. In Korea for example, age plays a significant role where one falls on the hierarchy, and language is often indirect. Think about how we speak English, or how Latin is spoken and you get a feel for how the Indic side of the Indo-Europoean spectrum works. Korean however, doesn't translate as directly, partially because politeness is much more important in the spoken language, but mostly because it's not directly related to our language, so they figure out different ways to solve the problem of communication. Reading the article, I've learned that the problems experienced arose because the co-pilots weren't acting as equals - sounds like a communications problem to me, possibly unique (but not limited to) Korean culture.
"Korean culture" does not equate to "East Asian culture". The cultures in that region share a common influence, but there are subtle yet important differences.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, same here. Ain't got no mod points, sorry.
There wouldn't be a "gay agenda" (as a concept, not an actual agenda) if there weren't bigots running about with an [actual] anti-gay agenda.
I think you'll find Chelsea merely has different supporters than Bradley, not fewer.
You're suggesting that they pulled the ol' Turing act on him. I don't suspect this to be the case, as there were already reports of him seeking psychological care for gender identity disorder before even joining the military.
Ummm... last I checked, that show isn't a documentary, it's an original fiction series.
When I started at my current job, I began pair-programming with the system architect. Seeing him work before being expected to contribute helped me gain understanding of the state of the system, things that need to be done, and things that must be postponed due to complexity. Eventually, the architect moved on to a better job, and it became my task to fill the void - in part by emulating the actions of the former architect. Complain all you want about how the developer left something unfinished. Realistically, he inspired the community while providing direction on a nascent project in an innovative fashion. Maybe he grew weary from all the input into his idea, maybe he genuinely felt his contribution had maxed out. Sometimes a developer has to move on to more inspiring work.
Oh no! Something has transcended the limits with which it was initially conceived! Quick, stuff it back in the bag! Only evil "profiteers" would ever want anything other than a text-only web.
My statement was specifically in regard to throwing out the baby with the bathwater by dropping backward compatibility, not whether the web should support text vs. graphics vs. video. It should certainly support additional media, but not at the expense of dropping support for established media.
Because nothing says "innovation!" like a thousand incompatible proprietary protocols - apart from maybe drawing some nebulous, unarticulated distinction between "apps" and "applications".
Ok, I'll refine my definitions: Application, before the iPhone, referred to software specifically compiled for an operating system. App, as defined by modern innovation, refers to anything you can do with a web browser and/or mobile phone (if I'm not mistaken). So I guess that helps with "unarticulated". Not so sure about "nebulous" other than to say the latter definition certainly is.
The proliferation of protocols argument seems more like a straw-man, but I'll comment that open standards and APIs help with this, and that I don't hear too many people complaining about the variety of video game console systems out there; competition and variety can be good when approached properly. On a side note, component-based software engineering attempts to solve the problems of "too many protocols", it's just that there are too few true universal components readily available to the developer.
Web applications using HTTP *are* using the client/server model, just an established special case. People forget this because the majority of effort goes into building upon abstractions of other abstractions. Developers that flock to the new model get easier deployment at the expense of programs efficiency. Then stackoverflow blows up with new users of PHP5 asking really basic questions, and it becomes impossible to sift through the bullshit to find anything pertaining to the less trendy yet established models, or find solutions for problems in mature applications. Then Google decides that searching for the word "right" should return results for the word "left". Then slashdot gets inundated with know-it-all ACs who fail at reading comprehension.
There's an entire universe of places to inject code, why must it always be on the very top of an already overburdened stack? Someone please invent something original at one of the lower layers that improves efficiency, or prevents bloat by addressing an underserved use-case, so that we don't end up with a swiss army knife that claims to be able to change your car's oil automatically.
MS Word in a browser
I'd rather see a browser in MS Word so I can use Google docs from there. That would be actual progress /sarcasm>
Well, I wouldn't say "mostly". The bulk of the development centers around the engine implementations that exploit hardware such as DirectMedia. It's not like the Steam developers are using Javascript/HTML/CSS to provide actual gameplay, and it's certainly not the case that these developers are trying to transform the web browser to support a gaming engine. To clarify, I'm saying that the reason gamers use steam isn't because it's "in a web browser" or even "browser-oriented", they use it because it's an easy way to download and run native desktop games efficiently. Thus, Steam is mostly a desktop gaming platform, not a web "app".
You know what would really suck? If we decided to drop backwards compatibility simply because what was originally intended as a document sourcing and navigation solution has ended up in the hands of profiteers who want this document-oriented system to be used for 3D rendering. Yeah, HTML/CSS/Javascript can do that, but why use a screwdriver when a jackhammer is more appropriate?
Instead of saying "oh the web sucks because it's old, let's make it new", why not look at what the desktop environment has yet to deliver due to market fragmentation and misguided creative direction? There is much more to the Internet than what traverses ports 80 and 443, and it boggles my mind to think that instead of inventing new protocols and applications (not "apps") to get the job done in a better way - Steam is a great example of this - the popular idea is to say "well everyone has a web browser, let's find new ways to exploit it". It's lazy, uncreative thinking, like standing on the shoulders of giants and then deciding the giants need to be put to sleep because their clothes are no longer fashionable.
So, because there are multiple problems to solve, you call one of those problems "bullshit farcical propaganda"? While I certainly agree that the average voter needs to think critically, I don't think a defeatist attitude will solve anything.
More like a ban on Korean pilots
Agreed. Mod me down all you want, but it won't change the fact that an incomprehensible comment with a link to salon.com somehow got modded insightful.
Just because you've hacked RAID into part of a backup strategy does not mean that backup is a standard use-case for RAID. It's far too easy for the wrong disk to get overwritten because of all the things RAID is set up to do by default. With rsync, you're telling the disks exactly which direction the data needs to flow. In a production environment, there's also a greater chance of failure using RAID because of the whole "plugging / unplugging drives" thing. Sure, it's rare, but your operating system and/or motherboard may or may not enjoy having drives attached and detached from its SATA bus. Hearing the above, a systems administrator would assume you're confused between the terms "backup" and "mirror". It's a non-standard use-case, so the admin that arrives after you've moved on to another job will have to deal with that confusion.
rather than as a defensive/offensive mechanism?
Yes, they are called patent trolls.
I think you missed half of the question there. Patent trolls by definition use patents as an offensive mechanism.
I think if anything, Thom Yorke is seeing the big picture, in which the labels still ultimately control everything, with or without facades such as Pandora or Spotify. It seems like the removal of their albums is more to provoke discussion than to promote a boycott.
Do you find any consolation in the fact that with good behavior, he could be out in six months or less?
With all due respect, fuck his political career. He cheated by committing voter fraud. If anything, we need fewer politicians who try to pull shit like this.
"Literally"? Care to back that up?
No, ancient authors get a pass because the sales of their works don't benefit them or any foundation that promotes the bigotry agenda.
Ok, valid point. Why not implement these changes at the transport layer then? I'd venture a guess it's the same reasons security was pushed to the application layer (SSL, SSH, etc). It irks me to see the open web being destroyed by governments, so this news makes me think it'd be easier to embed backdoors, going from plaintext to binary.
Calling bullshit on your "bullshit" argument. You can't equate Indian culture with Korean culture just because they share deference and hierarchy. The two cultures are based around different ideology, language, and social norms. In Korea for example, age plays a significant role where one falls on the hierarchy, and language is often indirect. Think about how we speak English, or how Latin is spoken and you get a feel for how the Indic side of the Indo-Europoean spectrum works. Korean however, doesn't translate as directly, partially because politeness is much more important in the spoken language, but mostly because it's not directly related to our language, so they figure out different ways to solve the problem of communication. Reading the article, I've learned that the problems experienced arose because the co-pilots weren't acting as equals - sounds like a communications problem to me, possibly unique (but not limited to) Korean culture.
"Korean culture" does not equate to "East Asian culture". The cultures in that region share a common influence, but there are subtle yet important differences.
With a bigger monitor and a more modern IDE, you would've been more productive still.
Yeah, and if Tesla had the Internet, he'd might have been better at combatting Edison.