that's just a cabinet... with game consoles in it... how could that be ultimate ?
When I think of Ultimate (with capital U) DIY Gamer's Cabinet, I think of neon-lights, plasma flow around the cabinet, totally useless smoke coming out from behind the cabinet in at least 4 different colors, actuators that move the cabinet around when you're playing a game - just for the fun of it ! - , smoke-glass that changes state electrically so while gaming, you can light up the console you're playing with (ofcourse with light in the cabinet to accentuate them).
But this ? This is just IKEA's idea of a gamer's cabinet (with the blue fans as only discerning feature) !
...is on this site (sadly translated from dutch to english), you only have to look at the dreadfull, horrible pictures to experience the pain and agony the writer must have felt when he tried to open a bag of peanuts using his own, special way and the reactions he gets from the company that sells these bags just out in the open !
...because that never is going to happen. This article is specific to the iPod, but in Europe plans are already made to introduce a generic tax for all devices that include storage, whether that's an iPod or a DVD-recorder or a generic mp3-player : the tax would go to the likes of RIAA and the MPAA in Europe.
It would be very naive to think that once this tax is introduced, you can freely copy stuff. It's a simple game : he who has the most marbles at the end wins, and that's that.
Just to take away the surprise: you are not the one that will have the most marbles at the end if this tax is introduced.
...about the actual defective blocks that are *found* ? I mean, if 18 per million are defective, and all 18 are removed from the process, isn't this effectively better than 3.4 ppm of which all 3 are *not* removed from the process ?
...snakeoil: a properly selected semiconducting thermoelectric fluid which is thick enough to support a significant temperature differential between the emitter and the collector in order to achieve efficiencies of practical interest - ie. snake oil
I tried signing up once, I immediately got pulled on my arm by Linden to get FREE CREDITS! After I installed it, it proved utter crap (crash-crap), and isn't worth a dime. But you must get the FREE CREDITS, and get YOUR FRIENDS TO SIGN UP!
I wonder when they will give me FREE V1AGRA when I sign up ? And I take it that the first Nigerian money scam will also be in effect real soon...:
Dear sir, I write to you this letter on behalf of Prince Mumbaga of island 123. He has recently been wrongfully imprisoned, but left behind a sum of 10,000,000 Linden dollars. The money is however locked behind a password protected vault somewhere in Second Life, and I need your help to get it out. Please send me 10,000 Linden dollars so I can release the money. Ofcourse, his royal highness will reward you graciously and has already promised to give you 1,000,000 as a reward once the money is freed.
Your best friend,
Ubrantu Kumulu
It ofcourse does depend on what type of projects you are in, I would not recommend this if you make critical applications that could endanger lives - but seeing your post I think you don't have that restriction:)
Voting machines can be constructed in any way possible, but never completely exclude the fact that you can commit fraud with them.
One solution often presented is the XBOX-type of security - encrypted links between hardware, redundancy etc etc - but as *we* know this type of security is breakable. You only have to do this once to break the security of all voting machines.
Apart from this, some people mention the use of a paper trail. This trail itself has to be counted fully then, irrespectful of the outcome that the machines themselves produce, to verify a correct vote has been cast:
The voting machine in itself can still not accurately or thrustworthingly tell the outcome of the elections and becomes a nice "exit-poll".
Voting also brings with it the right for secrecy: this is something that does NOT occur in your examples. While the data is compartimentalized to certain groups of people, the data is still available on multiple sites and can be cross-verified. Voting machines store the data on 1 place (with or without redundancy) and when the vote has been changed, you can no longer cross-verify whether the voter actually did vote what he appeared to have voted...
What I know from my own experience is that a big number of memory leaks end up in places with linked lists, used by many different parts of the system. Even if your own part is programmed well (and cleans up after it is done), it could be that the stuff ends up floating around the program by parts that have no idea how to use it, but simply want the information contained therein.
As Mozilla is built up of many parts, built by different people at different times, chances this is happening currently are high. But I guess that is as much as you said;)
(taken from here) 1. Not true. The theme is perhaps not consistent, but this does not matter to the casual user who downloads Firefox for use on 1 platform.
2. Not true. Antiphishing technology privacy issues are clearly noted when the user ENABLES the (by default DISABLED) feature. This makes it completely by users' choice, and defeats this issue completely.
3. Little bit true. There are certain options hidden which should be visible. But it's a choice made towards new users, not towards old users that still remember releases such as Firefox 0.9. So it's actually a good thing. And user interfaces tend to address the most common denominator anyway, which is also a proper thing to do.
4. Little bit true, but to be expected ! Extensions access XPCOM-exported functionality. It is by default that many of the XPCOM interfaces are not stable - this is known to developers and this is clearly noted next to the interfaces you want to develop upon. If extensions use unstable interfaces they know that it could break in future releases. Short story: this issue is no issue at all.
5. 50% True. But this is a bug that could just as well be fixed in Firefox 2.0.1. Memory leaks are however not easy to fix, and it is by no means sure that it would be even fixed in 3.0, so pure speculation to make this an issue not to upgrade to 2.0.
6. True. But this also represents a transitional problem that will most likely be fixed (or worked around) in the 2.0-branch
7. Unverifyable. The author refers to some blog that mentions presumably a Firefox 2.0 RC3-version. But there are no details on the setup of the person's Firefox, nor on the extensions he had installed (see 4). This makes this issue unverifyable and strikes it off this list.
8. True. Again not something major that couldn't be fixed in the 2.0 branch - have patience.
9. Untrue. The article author states that RSS feed handling takes a step backwards - in the linked article there is no mention of this: it says that RSS feed handling has never been so good in Firefox as it is in IE7. This is a feature that Firefox may be lacking, but as it has never been present in earlier releases this is NO REASON not to upgrade. Stricken, your honour.
My judgement from the issues he stated ? He mentions 2 issues that would qualify as a "no-go" for upgrade, the history bar and the CSS issues. But both these issues are minor in that they could be fixed in the 2.0 branch. I clearly show why the other issues are not so true, and sometimes clearly dead-wrong. In my eyes, the author is writing a big fat troll, and slashdot should know better than to post this. Now the damage has been done, this discussion can quickly be silenced, hopefully.
...is what they said in the article: "To a first order approximation, you couldn't have had a biosphere that was anything like the one on Earth," Greenwood says.
Maybe there was life that created phosphorus instead of converting it, that's what they are saying.
...to it, even when I put the GPL on the installer of one of the programs I work on, as a click through.
I see EULA's not as legal agreements, as I come from The Netherlands - we do ofcourse have contracts, but all are governed by law, and some of the things that are in a contract thus don't necessarily have to apply to you as a user - you also have to sign a contract to accept it.
I see EULA's much more as an understanding between the user and the developer - an expectation. In the case of GPL, the click through must actually not read "click yes if you agree", but "click yes if you have read this" (regardless whether you agree). I don't say that what it reads is not legal, I say that of some other EULA's that are (and have been) out there. I do say that it doesn't really matter if you put the GPL on a click through page, because it's nature is that of an understanding ("...provide the program 'as is'..."), not of a right to only use the program if you agree to the things set forward - unless, of course, you decide to redistribute or modify the program.
I know 'independent' is not quite the same as 'open', but for a thing like the public voting process, doesn't it make sense to make these findings public ?
Apparently, they found some errors in the past - as they have tested the voting machines for years ! - but did not reveal them.
So, if "independent" stands for "TNO", as a Dutch voter I'm afraid - very afraid - that those voting machines will not be checked thorougly.
...of the group is that they are simply replacing eproms with proms, while the group demonstrated that the chips could be replaced, not just 'reprogrammed'. This is probably still something some politicians 'fail' to see over here: we can buy these chips in any electronics store, so why reprogram them - apart from the fact that reprogramming would take much more time than simply replacing.
It (the prom instead of eprom) is probably a failing idea of the company Nedap, which makes these monsters. Heck, they need to change their own software too, from time to time.
That's the actual experiment ! It's not about hugging vests, it's about the difference between the two groups. It compares mildly to the Stanford prison experiment in that way.
Where Will Riker meets his former self. I believe season 7 or 6. In that episode, the "transport beam bounced off the atmosphere", leaving a copy behind.
OMG, I just realised why I am still here and single...
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that's just a cabinet... with game consoles in it... how could that be ultimate ?
When I think of Ultimate (with capital U) DIY Gamer's Cabinet, I think of neon-lights, plasma flow around the cabinet, totally useless smoke coming out from behind the cabinet in at least 4 different colors, actuators that move the cabinet around when you're playing a game - just for the fun of it ! - , smoke-glass that changes state electrically so while gaming, you can light up the console you're playing with (ofcourse with light in the cabinet to accentuate them).
But this ? This is just IKEA's idea of a gamer's cabinet (with the blue fans as only discerning feature) !
...is on this site (sadly translated from dutch to english), you only have to look at the dreadfull, horrible pictures to experience the pain and agony the writer must have felt when he tried to open a bag of peanuts using his own, special way and the reactions he gets from the company that sells these bags just out in the open !
...because that never is going to happen. This article is specific to the iPod, but in Europe plans are already made to introduce a generic tax for all devices that include storage, whether that's an iPod or a DVD-recorder or a generic mp3-player : the tax would go to the likes of RIAA and the MPAA in Europe.
It would be very naive to think that once this tax is introduced, you can freely copy stuff. It's a simple game : he who has the most marbles at the end wins, and that's that.
Just to take away the surprise: you are not the one that will have the most marbles at the end if this tax is introduced.
...about the actual defective blocks that are *found* ? I mean, if 18 per million are defective, and all 18 are removed from the process, isn't this effectively better than 3.4 ppm of which all 3 are *not* removed from the process ?
1. Make hybrid car with less carbon-exhaust
:) (smug mode off) Prrrt... snifff... ah...
2. Promote hybrid car, get people interested
3. Lobby for law that taxes carbon-exhaust
4. ???
5. Profit !
(smug mode on)Lucky I already drive one
made by data display, a UK based company. I used to work on these displays. They also specifically mention the short lifespan of the plasma displays.
Google is evil, and we all know it - this is not the action of a "good" company.
burn... - would be my humble reply without reading the body of this terrible question.
...snakeoil:
a properly selected semiconducting thermoelectric fluid which is thick enough to support a significant temperature differential between the emitter and the collector in order to achieve efficiencies of practical interest -
ie. snake oil
I like to use it when I'm near such a urinal to lower it down, especially when people are peeing ;=)
I tried signing up once, I immediately got pulled on my arm by Linden to get FREE CREDITS!
After I installed it, it proved utter crap (crash-crap), and isn't worth a dime. But you must get the FREE CREDITS, and get YOUR FRIENDS TO SIGN UP!
I wonder when they will give me FREE V1AGRA when I sign up ? And I take it that the first Nigerian money scam will also be in effect real soon...:
Dear sir, I write to you this letter on behalf of Prince Mumbaga of island 123. He has recently been wrongfully imprisoned, but left behind a sum of 10,000,000 Linden dollars. The money is however locked behind a password protected vault somewhere in Second Life, and I need your help to get it out. Please send me 10,000 Linden dollars so I can release the money. Ofcourse, his royal highness will reward you graciously and has already promised to give you 1,000,000 as a reward once the money is freed.
Your best friend,
Ubrantu Kumulu
Seems that could be an interesting solution to your problem. More info here:
:)
http://www.agilealliance.com/ (see the article library and the Agile Manifesto for more info).
It ofcourse does depend on what type of projects you are in, I would not recommend this if you make critical applications that could endanger lives - but seeing your post I think you don't have that restriction
That's the wisest thing I heard today.
Voting machines can be constructed in any way possible, but never completely exclude the fact that you can commit fraud with them.
One solution often presented is the XBOX-type of security - encrypted links between hardware, redundancy etc etc - but as *we* know this type of security is breakable. You only have to do this once to break the security of all voting machines.
Apart from this, some people mention the use of a paper trail. This trail itself has to be counted fully then, irrespectful of the outcome that the machines themselves produce, to verify a correct vote has been cast:
The voting machine in itself can still not accurately or thrustworthingly tell the outcome of the elections and becomes a nice "exit-poll".
Voting also brings with it the right for secrecy: this is something that does NOT occur in your examples. While the data is compartimentalized to certain groups of people, the data is still available on multiple sites and can be cross-verified. Voting machines store the data on 1 place (with or without redundancy) and when the vote has been changed, you can no longer cross-verify whether the voter actually did vote what he appeared to have voted...
What I know from my own experience is that a big number of memory leaks end up in places with linked lists, used by many different parts of the system. Even if your own part is programmed well (and cleans up after it is done), it could be that the stuff ends up floating around the program by parts that have no idea how to use it, but simply want the information contained therein.
;)
As Mozilla is built up of many parts, built by different people at different times, chances this is happening currently are high.
But I guess that is as much as you said
(taken from here)
1. Not true. The theme is perhaps not consistent, but this does not matter to the casual user who downloads Firefox for use on 1 platform.
2. Not true. Antiphishing technology privacy issues are clearly noted when the user ENABLES the (by default DISABLED) feature. This makes it completely by users' choice, and defeats this issue completely.
3. Little bit true. There are certain options hidden which should be visible. But it's a choice made towards new users, not towards old users that still remember releases such as Firefox 0.9. So it's actually a good thing. And user interfaces tend to address the most common denominator anyway, which is also a proper thing to do.
4. Little bit true, but to be expected ! Extensions access XPCOM-exported functionality. It is by default that many of the XPCOM interfaces are not stable - this is known to developers and this is clearly noted next to the interfaces you want to develop upon. If extensions use unstable interfaces they know that it could break in future releases. Short story: this issue is no issue at all.
5. 50% True. But this is a bug that could just as well be fixed in Firefox 2.0.1. Memory leaks are however not easy to fix, and it is by no means sure that it would be even fixed in 3.0, so pure speculation to make this an issue not to upgrade to 2.0.
6. True. But this also represents a transitional problem that will most likely be fixed (or worked around) in the 2.0-branch
7. Unverifyable. The author refers to some blog that mentions presumably a Firefox 2.0 RC3-version. But there are no details on the setup of the person's Firefox, nor on the extensions he had installed (see 4). This makes this issue unverifyable and strikes it off this list.
8. True. Again not something major that couldn't be fixed in the 2.0 branch - have patience.
9. Untrue. The article author states that RSS feed handling takes a step backwards - in the linked article there is no mention of this: it says that RSS feed handling has never been so good in Firefox as it is in IE7. This is a feature that Firefox may be lacking, but as it has never been present in earlier releases this is NO REASON not to upgrade. Stricken, your honour.
My judgement from the issues he stated ? He mentions 2 issues that would qualify as a "no-go" for upgrade, the history bar and the CSS issues. But both these issues are minor in that they could be fixed in the 2.0 branch. I clearly show why the other issues are not so true, and sometimes clearly dead-wrong. In my eyes, the author is writing a big fat troll, and slashdot should know better than to post this. Now the damage has been done, this discussion can quickly be silenced, hopefully.
If there once were large pools of water on Mars, it's not the question why did it go, but much more one of why did it even form/exist ?
Was there an atmosphere once ?
...is what they said in the article:
"To a first order approximation, you couldn't have had a biosphere that was anything like the one on Earth," Greenwood says.
Maybe there was life that created phosphorus instead of converting it, that's what they are saying.
To the submitter: RTFA
...in my home.
Only funny thing about it is.... I can't find it.
I bet if I could find it though, I'd win the Nobel prize.
...to it, even when I put the GPL on the installer of one of the programs I work on, as a click through.
I see EULA's not as legal agreements, as I come from The Netherlands - we do ofcourse have contracts, but all are governed by law, and some of the things that are in a contract thus don't necessarily have to apply to you as a user - you also have to sign a contract to accept it.
I see EULA's much more as an understanding between the user and the developer - an expectation. In the case of GPL, the click through must actually not read "click yes if you agree", but "click yes if you have read this" (regardless whether you agree). I don't say that what it reads is not legal, I say that of some other EULA's that are (and have been) out there.
I do say that it doesn't really matter if you put the GPL on a click through page, because it's nature is that of an understanding ("...provide the program 'as is'..."), not of a right to only use the program if you agree to the things set forward - unless, of course, you decide to redistribute or modify the program.
...TNO stands for "Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research", but one of the major concerns - also pointed forward by the wedontrustvotingcomputers organization - is that TNO refuses to publically state its findings on the NEDAP voting computers.
I know 'independent' is not quite the same as 'open', but for a thing like the public voting process, doesn't it make sense to make these findings public ?
Apparently, they found some errors in the past - as they have tested the voting machines for years ! - but did not reveal them.
So, if "independent" stands for "TNO", as a Dutch voter I'm afraid - very afraid - that those voting machines will not be checked thorougly.
...of the group is that they are simply replacing eproms with proms, while the group demonstrated that the chips could be replaced, not just 'reprogrammed'.
This is probably still something some politicians 'fail' to see over here: we can buy these chips in any electronics store, so why reprogram them - apart from the fact that reprogramming would take much more time than simply replacing.
It (the prom instead of eprom) is probably a failing idea of the company Nedap, which makes these monsters. Heck, they need to change their own software too, from time to time.
That's the actual experiment ! It's not about hugging vests, it's about the difference between the two groups. It compares mildly to the Stanford prison experiment in that way.
...we find out that actually, the movie business is quitting Han So... erm George Lucas.
Where Will Riker meets his former self. I believe season 7 or 6.
In that episode, the "transport beam bounced off the atmosphere", leaving a copy behind.
OMG, I just realised why I am still here and single...