How annoying that would be? Being a developer 90%+ of the web sites I browse are in English which is not my native language. Hopefully it will respect the browser language settings (I use an English browser) or it can be switched off.
Don't know on other OSes but hibernate on Linux stores all the RAM on disk. I've got 4 GB of RAM and restoring them takes about the same time as booting (some 35-40s to login), getting through Gnome/Nautilus startup (so slow) and restarting the apps I need. The real boot time to a useful desktop is about three minutes. Hibernate is not faster than that and a shutdown is much faster than writing those 4 GB to disk.
Furthermore hibernate doesn't work well on my laptop. I think it's the video driver not restoring the video card state correctly (the radeon open source driver).
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I've got a google account for using analytics and other stuff but I'm not using it for email. That means that I seldom need to log into google and in turn that means that buzz basically doesn't exist for me. I don't think I'm alone. Furthermore I can search tweets even without logging it to twitter. That's much more convenient.
They allowed the KERS to store only 80 HP and it could be used for at most 6 seconds per lap.
Add to this that none of the teams that planned to use KERS designed a car with a double diffuser, an aerodinamical device allowed by a loophole in the rules initially exploited by only three teams. The double diffuser turned out to be far more important than the KERS for the performances of the car. Brawn GP got an expecially good implementation of the device and won 6 of the first 7 races. After that they coasted to win the championship as the other teams struggled to catch up. KERS teams got on par only on the last races of the season.
By the way, BMW abandoned KERS quite early in the season and it used it only on one of its cars.
3 introduced the first locked phones in Italy in 2003. That operator was launching its business and was looking for ways to be competitive on price and build a decent customer base quickly. The other three operators followed suit soon. I bought my current phone in 2006 and it's unlocked with a prepaid SIM. I think that the division between locked and unlocked phones is about 50/50. Low end phones are mostly unlocked because (I think) there is little to subsidize in a 30 euro phone. The high end smartphones are usually locked because they cost a lot and are useless without a data plan. But the Italian law allows customers to buy their way out from locked plans.
If most of your 900 controllers are just replicas of the standard restful controller (but... 900 different resources!?) you might be interested in the approach discussed at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/202398#881349
Basically you move all the restful code in one "global restful controller" and derive all the restful controllers from it, much like we derive models from ActiveRecord. Most controllers are reduced to a def/end two-liner and the application is much more maintainable because you don't have to create all the index/show/edit/update/new/create methods in every single controller. You add methods or replace the default ones only where you need to implement special logic . The code is at http://gist.github.com/280611
I don't think that the real issue is privacy. After all, DNA is so easy to obtain that if someone is determined to do it, it's a simple task.
What's difficult is obtaining the DNA of millions of adults and associating each sample with the name of the person it comes from. So it's an issue of privacy when you can do that on such a large scale by sampling babies. You build a database and if in the future we get the technology to sequence all those DNA cheaply we'll get a searchable db of everybody in the US. That's probably a valuable asset so my concerns about privacy are big.
Obviously, Linux undermines the capitalist way of life.
Not more than any attempt at turning other goods or services into cheap commodities or making companies work on the development of common platforms or giving away something to sell something else. We might say that Linux is the very essence of capitalism.
But I got your point about this idea of the UK government.
The real concern, broadly speaking, is what happens to the kids whose parents don't know/care.
People who don't thinker (or don't think at all) turn out to be wonderful consumers. Basically you can sell them anything, no questions asked. IMHO that's at the core of Diesel's Be Stupid commercials. The only smart people a company needs are its employees and its partners. The dumber the rest of the world is, the better it is for its revenues. Dumbing down products is a virtuous circle: you sell more of them because they are undeniably easier to use, you dumb down people, you get customers more likely to buy your products. Reiterate.
So, if you can't use more than at a time, what use is it to display all those menu bars at once?
Less mouse travel. The Mac menu system was good on the original Mac's small screen back in the '80s but it doesn't scale to today's large displays. It will be ok again on the new small screen mobile devices but you don't have a mouse there. Furthermore Apple solved the problem in another way: they forbid multitasking on their mobile appliances (I don't dare call them computers) so there is no reason for having two menus on the screen.
I'm no PHP fan but I won't be surprised if FB decided that optimizing the interpreter and investing resources in new functionality is a better business decision than investing in a giant rewrite of what they have now. That would effectively stop them for many months in the best case, or double their costs as a team keeps adding features to the PHP architecture and another one plays catch-up in another language. But maybe they also have some plan to rewrite some core components in a faster language, like twitter did porting the backend tasks from Ruby to Scala.
We could say that they started with the wrong technology but using PHP Zuckerberg was able to deliver what turned out to be a successful product back in 2004. Had he wrote it in Java he could have missed a window of opportunity and people could be using some different social network now. Same logic applies to twitter's choice of Ruby, which by the way they still use for the frontend. Many recent interpreted languages (I'm thinking about Ruby) trade execution speed for speed of coding and delivering products. Many products totally fail and many others don't get so successful to need optimizations so IMHO speed of delivery is the key factor: deliver, get customers, get money and only then we'll think about making our servers run fast.
Ah... If only FB's new interpreter could access instance variables without that redundant $this-> construct that clutters all OO PHP code...
So everybody in those pubs have to wear 3D glasses. If they don't they'll see double images of the players even before drinking a beer. A theatre is a very different environment, far more controlled. This ManU vs Arsenal game is an interesting experiment in how freely moving crowds can (and are willing to) watch 3D broadcasts.
I just wish KGS would open up the protocol and let third parties create clients.
We could just wish that Apple opens up its products and let people run whatever they want on the iPhone and the iPad. KGS is very applish in its approach and Apple is very kgs-ish: both want total control on the user experience; you gain some polish but you lose flexibility and integration is often impossible.
It would be a very small board and there could be a lot of misclicks (mistouches?). A pen would help but we'll have to wait until the iPad gets its first client for a go server. Too bad it doesn't run Java: there would be a KGS client out of the box.
On the read-only side, based on my experience a 2" phone screen is large enough for studying games.
A 10" board game is definitely not feasible. Not today's board games anyway, which require all players sitting around the same table and be able to study the board and move pieces around. It's too small. Maybe somebody will start designing board games for a 10" screen and remote players. But those won't be like what we use to play now with our friends. Conclusion: not a platform to replace board games as we know them. Maybe a competitor for PC games.
This post of NoScript's author Giorgio Maone dates back to one year ago and goes into the details of X-Frame-Options. His point seems to be that if you have JavaScript enabled, there are well-known ways to achieve the same result, unless you use IE (they can be circumvented). If you don't have JS enabled, NoScript on Firefox is already giving you the same degree of protection. Anyway (this is me) adding that level of protection by default on all browsers looks a nice thing to have.
Nope. It sounds odd in many ways but the meme should be: in Soviet Russia China removes censorships from Google!
It's in the real word that China was censoring Google (with Google's active consent)
I thought it did happen to images? Aren't JPEG/GIF - the most widely used formats online - patent encumbered? I don't recall anything apocalyptic happening with them,
Apparently it didn't happen to JPEG and all the GIF patents expired between 2003 and 2004. PNG was born a free alternative to GIF in 1996 because of those patents.
but I have a feeling MPEG-LA will be more pushy. After all, they want money so they can work on H.265.
I smell sarcasm here and I agree. I sincerely doubt that they're going to invest all the money they get into new technologies. I think they'll want some profit, which is OK, but why should I be happy to give them the money and to others the control of Internet video?
... pay to create and distribute video content or having to upload it on the few big sites that have enough money to pay the royalties to MPEG-LA.
We might decide to use h.264 anyway because it's technically better but what I expect is that customers and content creators should be happier to see a totally free codec succeed over one that will cost them money.
Youtube, Vimeo & Co are trying to use h.264 to become the new majors. I understand why those companies don't want a free codec to succeed: that would lead to more competition and less ways to profit from their position. I'm afraid that in this case their best interests are our worst interests.
Think if it happened to images. You could only legally upload graphics to Flickr, Facebook and a few dozens of other big sites with the money to pay royalties. All vacation pictures and UI buttons would have to go there. Figuring out what the web would look like is left as an exercise to the reader.
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How annoying that would be? Being a developer 90%+ of the web sites I browse are in English which is not my native language. Hopefully it will respect the browser language settings (I use an English browser) or it can be switched off.
Answering to your question, maybe this is what you're looking for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/918
...luckily the game still comes before the programming language.
Don't know on other OSes but hibernate on Linux stores all the RAM on disk. I've got 4 GB of RAM and restoring them takes about the same time as booting (some 35-40s to login), getting through Gnome/Nautilus startup (so slow) and restarting the apps I need. The real boot time to a useful desktop is about three minutes. Hibernate is not faster than that and a shutdown is much faster than writing those 4 GB to disk. Furthermore hibernate doesn't work well on my laptop. I think it's the video driver not restoring the video card state correctly (the radeon open source driver).
I've got a google account for using analytics and other stuff but I'm not using it for email. That means that I seldom need to log into google and in turn that means that buzz basically doesn't exist for me. I don't think I'm alone. Furthermore I can search tweets even without logging it to twitter. That's much more convenient.
That was a case of braken English :-)
They allowed the KERS to store only 80 HP and it could be used for at most 6 seconds per lap.
Add to this that none of the teams that planned to use KERS designed a car with a double diffuser, an aerodinamical device allowed by a loophole in the rules initially exploited by only three teams. The double diffuser turned out to be far more important than the KERS for the performances of the car. Brawn GP got an expecially good implementation of the device and won 6 of the first 7 races. After that they coasted to win the championship as the other teams struggled to catch up. KERS teams got on par only on the last races of the season.
By the way, BMW abandoned KERS quite early in the season and it used it only on one of its cars.
I 100% agree with you. Dumping "Intelligent Save" is not smart but it seems that they're doing it.
3 introduced the first locked phones in Italy in 2003. That operator was launching its business and was looking for ways to be competitive on price and build a decent customer base quickly. The other three operators followed suit soon. I bought my current phone in 2006 and it's unlocked with a prepaid SIM. I think that the division between locked and unlocked phones is about 50/50. Low end phones are mostly unlocked because (I think) there is little to subsidize in a 30 euro phone. The high end smartphones are usually locked because they cost a lot and are useless without a data plan. But the Italian law allows customers to buy their way out from locked plans.
If most of your 900 controllers are just replicas of the standard restful controller (but... 900 different resources!?) you might be interested in the approach discussed at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/202398#881349 Basically you move all the restful code in one "global restful controller" and derive all the restful controllers from it, much like we derive models from ActiveRecord. Most controllers are reduced to a def/end two-liner and the application is much more maintainable because you don't have to create all the index/show/edit/update/new/create methods in every single controller. You add methods or replace the default ones only where you need to implement special logic . The code is at http://gist.github.com/280611
I don't think that the real issue is privacy. After all, DNA is so easy to obtain that if someone is determined to do it, it's a simple task.
What's difficult is obtaining the DNA of millions of adults and associating each sample with the name of the person it comes from. So it's an issue of privacy when you can do that on such a large scale by sampling babies. You build a database and if in the future we get the technology to sequence all those DNA cheaply we'll get a searchable db of everybody in the US. That's probably a valuable asset so my concerns about privacy are big.
Obviously, Linux undermines the capitalist way of life.
Not more than any attempt at turning other goods or services into cheap commodities or making companies work on the development of common platforms or giving away something to sell something else. We might say that Linux is the very essence of capitalism.
But I got your point about this idea of the UK government.
The real concern, broadly speaking, is what happens to the kids whose parents don't know/care.
People who don't thinker (or don't think at all) turn out to be wonderful consumers. Basically you can sell them anything, no questions asked. IMHO that's at the core of Diesel's Be Stupid commercials. The only smart people a company needs are its employees and its partners. The dumber the rest of the world is, the better it is for its revenues. Dumbing down products is a virtuous circle: you sell more of them because they are undeniably easier to use, you dumb down people, you get customers more likely to buy your products. Reiterate.
So, if you can't use more than at a time, what use is it to display all those menu bars at once?
Less mouse travel. The Mac menu system was good on the original Mac's small screen back in the '80s but it doesn't scale to today's large displays. It will be ok again on the new small screen mobile devices but you don't have a mouse there. Furthermore Apple solved the problem in another way: they forbid multitasking on their mobile appliances (I don't dare call them computers) so there is no reason for having two menus on the screen.
I'm no PHP fan but I won't be surprised if FB decided that optimizing the interpreter and investing resources in new functionality is a better business decision than investing in a giant rewrite of what they have now. That would effectively stop them for many months in the best case, or double their costs as a team keeps adding features to the PHP architecture and another one plays catch-up in another language. But maybe they also have some plan to rewrite some core components in a faster language, like twitter did porting the backend tasks from Ruby to Scala.
We could say that they started with the wrong technology but using PHP Zuckerberg was able to deliver what turned out to be a successful product back in 2004. Had he wrote it in Java he could have missed a window of opportunity and people could be using some different social network now. Same logic applies to twitter's choice of Ruby, which by the way they still use for the frontend. Many recent interpreted languages (I'm thinking about Ruby) trade execution speed for speed of coding and delivering products. Many products totally fail and many others don't get so successful to need optimizations so IMHO speed of delivery is the key factor: deliver, get customers, get money and only then we'll think about making our servers run fast.
Ah... If only FB's new interpreter could access instance variables without that redundant $this-> construct that clutters all OO PHP code...
So everybody in those pubs have to wear 3D glasses. If they don't they'll see double images of the players even before drinking a beer. A theatre is a very different environment, far more controlled. This ManU vs Arsenal game is an interesting experiment in how freely moving crowds can (and are willing to) watch 3D broadcasts.
I just wish KGS would open up the protocol and let third parties create clients.
We could just wish that Apple opens up its products and let people run whatever they want on the iPhone and the iPad. KGS is very applish in its approach and Apple is very kgs-ish: both want total control on the user experience; you gain some polish but you lose flexibility and integration is often impossible.
It would be a very small board and there could be a lot of misclicks (mistouches?). A pen would help but we'll have to wait until the iPad gets its first client for a go server. Too bad it doesn't run Java: there would be a KGS client out of the box.
On the read-only side, based on my experience a 2" phone screen is large enough for studying games.
A 10" board game is definitely not feasible. Not today's board games anyway, which require all players sitting around the same table and be able to study the board and move pieces around. It's too small. Maybe somebody will start designing board games for a 10" screen and remote players. But those won't be like what we use to play now with our friends. Conclusion: not a platform to replace board games as we know them. Maybe a competitor for PC games.
This post of NoScript's author Giorgio Maone dates back to one year ago and goes into the details of X-Frame-Options. His point seems to be that if you have JavaScript enabled, there are well-known ways to achieve the same result, unless you use IE (they can be circumvented). If you don't have JS enabled, NoScript on Firefox is already giving you the same degree of protection. Anyway (this is me) adding that level of protection by default on all browsers looks a nice thing to have.
This thing isn't a phone and it's not an mp3 player,
Right, it's PSP that doesn't run only games. Same business model.
Nope. It sounds odd in many ways but the meme should be: in Soviet Russia China removes censorships from Google! It's in the real word that China was censoring Google (with Google's active consent)
I add: and if they are so terrible how could FIAT buy Chrysler with the backing of the Obama administration?
I thought it did happen to images? Aren't JPEG/GIF - the most widely used formats online - patent encumbered? I don't recall anything apocalyptic happening with them,
Apparently it didn't happen to JPEG and all the GIF patents expired between 2003 and 2004. PNG was born a free alternative to GIF in 1996 because of those patents.
but I have a feeling MPEG-LA will be more pushy. After all, they want money so they can work on H.265.
I smell sarcasm here and I agree. I sincerely doubt that they're going to invest all the money they get into new technologies. I think they'll want some profit, which is OK, but why should I be happy to give them the money and to others the control of Internet video?
... pay to create and distribute video content or having to upload it on the few big sites that have enough money to pay the royalties to MPEG-LA.
We might decide to use h.264 anyway because it's technically better but what I expect is that customers and content creators should be happier to see a totally free codec succeed over one that will cost them money.
Youtube, Vimeo & Co are trying to use h.264 to become the new majors. I understand why those companies don't want a free codec to succeed: that would lead to more competition and less ways to profit from their position. I'm afraid that in this case their best interests are our worst interests.
Think if it happened to images. You could only legally upload graphics to Flickr, Facebook and a few dozens of other big sites with the money to pay royalties. All vacation pictures and UI buttons would have to go there. Figuring out what the web would look like is left as an exercise to the reader.
Why troll? AC is correct. The article gives a nice answer to the OP. It's the OP that totally missed the point.