Not infinite ink: according to their FAQ there is no way to replace the battery so you have to throw away the tablet when the power is over. Luckily it should last some years but it looks like a faulty design to me. And not being able to save, reload and edit pages is bad and is the negation of one of the main advantages of electronics.
Despite those limitations they're selling very well so we'll get some better devices soon from that company or another one.
The last thing I wore around my wrist was (surprise) a clock some 20 years ago. I started having clocks all around me on computer screens at that time so I discovered I had no reason to wear one myself. Then came mobile phones. After all that time I can't stand having something around my wrist anymore.
I have a clock for when I go hiking on the mountains but I strap it on the backpack. It's much more comfortable that way.
Thinking about this Asus product, it may even sell well but I'd always go for something that can fit in my pocket and that's my mobile phone. I could call it a camera that makes calls and runs programs, or a computer with a phone and a camera but there is a limit to the number of devices we can carry around and recharge at home. No need for another one and no need to wear it.
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By visiting the site, you authorised it. If you don't want those scripts run, don't visit the site.
You don't know what a site wants to run inside your browser unless you access the site so using a plugin like NoScript is the only thing to do if you want to have a chance to authorize some scripts and reject others.
The 2D version is "too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message" and draws "attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions" but the 3D and IMAX versions are ok? And censors realized it one week after they approved the movie and a lot of people already watched it? I'm puzzled.
Instead could that be a not-too-harsh message to the USA and the world after last week Google affair?
You're probably advocating for editors to support elastic tabstops which seem to work well also on proportial fonts. But I don't think ascii art can survive without fixed fonts.
Speeding is not a crime in Italy. Crimes are things you get jailed for. Speeding is something you get fined for. They are two very different things at least in this part of the world. Judges and courts deal with crimes not with fines. This might be good or bad but it's how things work here.
Yes, that was bad until I got the habit of enabling site's scripts before starting to fill out the form. I usually enable only the scripts from the primary domain of the site, not the 3rd party ones so I'd never enable something like tynt to fill out a form.
I was thinking about backing up files over there so I was in an encryption mindset. Anyway I won't upload anything to Google I don't have a copyright or a license for. They seem to be good at finding things:-)
Everybody knows that people use web browsers to look for illegal downloads on torrent sites so let's tax browsers. Wait, there are free browsers so how about taxing links? Web sites will pay for every link clicked. Wait, some web sites are free to use (mine is one of them) so let's tax only per profit sites. Every per profit site to report clicks to the French government in 3... 2... 1...
Simply switching one user to another safer reader won't solve this security problem because most people use the Adobe's one. Disabling JavaScript by default in Adobe Reader would. People that for some reason have to use PDF forms will enable it or will be told how to by their IT department. By the way, I'm using evince on Linux to read PDF. I discovered now that it supports forms but apparently it doesn't have javascript. I'm probably safe.
Exactly, Maginot has been flanked and a lot of stuff goes on a plane without going through passengers scanners. if they can plan enough to hijack 4 planes at once they'll be able to bribe/infiltrate somebody to snatch something aboard during maintenance/catering/refueling/cleaning operations. Maginot look-a-likes are always a waste of time and resources. On the other side I don't expect the guys that get paid to build and manage those scanners to agree with me.
People buy many useless "real" things. Any of us does. If that useless stuff is good for the economy so are the useless "virtual" things of many games.
I see your point but I think your conclusion doesn't take into account that people like to invent new things and that there will always be leaders to motivate other people to help them researching and building new stuff. So progress won't end if we had sci-fi all-you-can-wish factories but people that just want to eat, drink and get tan will be able to bore themselves to death. IMHO that's better than forcing them to work all day just to stay alive.
The assumption is that people spend time producing things they don't need and use money as a tool to facilitate the exchange of that time with the time someone else spends producing the things they need. Example: I write sw that I don't need but I need food somebody else produces. If you remove the causes for this assumption is currently true you remove the need for money.
There are some parts of this world were there is little need for money, basically everywhere people produce or collect from the surrounding environment nearly everything they need but that's impossible in areas with more than very small population densities. The kind of organization we need in a world with urban-like population densities requires either money or that a lot of people volunteer to spend time doing unpleasant activities, something that I feel difficult to believe.
There are some sci-fi books with automatic factories that create for free all the stuff people wish but that will be just sci-fi for a long time. Furthermore human nature and physics plays against it. Example: a lot of people might want a house at the sea front of tropical islands but space there is a finite resource. Who gets those house?
Maybe the loophole has been the creation of a new business category: I knew that there are two parties in a contract and everybody else is a third party. I learnt about fourth parties a couple of minutes ago. It could be that I'm ignorant but I can't help thinking that they've been playing with words to work around rules. They should have changed them instead.
The term fourth party doesn't seem widespread: it's about 1/1000th less frequent than "third party" according to google search. Its use seems related to politics (four party systems) and logistics. By the way this./ article made the first page of http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fourth+party%22
That's a malloc-like API to storage. I'm pretty sure there is plenty of CS literature on this subject but I don't have the time to google it. I just write a few quick thoughts about it.
If storage is about as fast as RAM you can work on it as if it were RAM, build data structures on it and persist them. The OS will provide ways to share them with other programs. The storage will be a single in-memory object oriented database.
An example: an editor could persist its internal OO data representation of a text file, with a toString method to make that data available to other editors with different data representation. That implies a lot of data duplication (OK only if fast persistent storage is as cheap as today's hard disks) and the need for a file system that merges all those different data representation into a single name so we can find the file and open it for editing (and the compiler for compiling!).
As this PCM storage won't be as cheap as HD a hierarchy of storage is probably desirable with some caching algorithm to move data from slower disks to faster chips.
I don't know if current mainstream OS can survive to this change so this means that market forces will slow down this change and make it very gradual.
Yes at every company I worked at (150 to 50k employees). One large company had a developers and non-developers environment, both without admin rights but developers could ask permanent admin rights if they could demonstrate that it was required by their job. All developers asked their bosses, bosses did the paperwork and developers got admin rights. Not sure that everybody really needed it as most of us didn't write a single line of code but actually managed contractors that did the job using their company's pcs. For sure we enjoyed the ability to install whatever we wanted on our notebooks that often were our home computers too. By the way, guys with admin rights had to fix of anything going wrong with their pc because requests for assistance would be billed to the budget of the company unit they belonged to.
And why should we care about the publishing industry? Authors will keep writing even without an industry to feed and people will keep reading what they write. It has been like that for thousands of years so it's a viable model of business. People working in the publishing industry will find another job as any worker of companies that are run out of business by better competitors or shrinking markets.
Sometimes my Chromium 4 on Linux breaks on some pages with the Aw snap! error but this is not very important.
What's more important is that the ad blockers for Chrome are still very primitive compared to adblock+ for firefox. The GUI for selecting the ads to block is a pain to use and I quickly gave up using it. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser and Chromium for compatibility tests and this won't change until Chromium extensions gets on par in terms of usability (mainly adblock, firebug, noscript)
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Not infinite ink: according to their FAQ there is no way to replace the battery so you have to throw away the tablet when the power is over. Luckily it should last some years but it looks like a faulty design to me. And not being able to save, reload and edit pages is bad and is the negation of one of the main advantages of electronics. Despite those limitations they're selling very well so we'll get some better devices soon from that company or another one.
The last thing I wore around my wrist was (surprise) a clock some 20 years ago. I started having clocks all around me on computer screens at that time so I discovered I had no reason to wear one myself. Then came mobile phones. After all that time I can't stand having something around my wrist anymore. I have a clock for when I go hiking on the mountains but I strap it on the backpack. It's much more comfortable that way. Thinking about this Asus product, it may even sell well but I'd always go for something that can fit in my pocket and that's my mobile phone. I could call it a camera that makes calls and runs programs, or a computer with a phone and a camera but there is a limit to the number of devices we can carry around and recharge at home. No need for another one and no need to wear it.
You don't know what a site wants to run inside your browser unless you access the site so using a plugin like NoScript is the only thing to do if you want to have a chance to authorize some scripts and reject others.
The 2D version is "too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message" and draws "attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions" but the 3D and IMAX versions are ok? And censors realized it one week after they approved the movie and a lot of people already watched it? I'm puzzled. Instead could that be a not-too-harsh message to the USA and the world after last week Google affair?
You're probably advocating for editors to support elastic tabstops which seem to work well also on proportial fonts. But I don't think ascii art can survive without fixed fonts.
Speeding is not a crime in Italy. Crimes are things you get jailed for. Speeding is something you get fined for. They are two very different things at least in this part of the world. Judges and courts deal with crimes not with fines. This might be good or bad but it's how things work here.
Yes, that was bad until I got the habit of enabling site's scripts before starting to fill out the form. I usually enable only the scripts from the primary domain of the site, not the 3rd party ones so I'd never enable something like tynt to fill out a form.
Good, so screensavers will get again a real reason to exist.
I was thinking about backing up files over there so I was in an encryption mindset. Anyway I won't upload anything to Google I don't have a copyright or a license for. They seem to be good at finding things :-)
You may want to add some "gpg -e" between the endpoints of that pipe, unless you really trust google not to look into your stuff.
Everybody knows that people use web browsers to look for illegal downloads on torrent sites so let's tax browsers. Wait, there are free browsers so how about taxing links? Web sites will pay for every link clicked. Wait, some web sites are free to use (mine is one of them) so let's tax only per profit sites. Every per profit site to report clicks to the French government in 3... 2... 1...
Copyright gets extended every time it's about to hit the expiration limit so yes, copyright will last hundreds of years a century from now.
Simply switching one user to another safer reader won't solve this security problem because most people use the Adobe's one. Disabling JavaScript by default in Adobe Reader would. People that for some reason have to use PDF forms will enable it or will be told how to by their IT department. By the way, I'm using evince on Linux to read PDF. I discovered now that it supports forms but apparently it doesn't have javascript. I'm probably safe.
Exactly, Maginot has been flanked and a lot of stuff goes on a plane without going through passengers scanners. if they can plan enough to hijack 4 planes at once they'll be able to bribe/infiltrate somebody to snatch something aboard during maintenance/catering/refueling/cleaning operations. Maginot look-a-likes are always a waste of time and resources. On the other side I don't expect the guys that get paid to build and manage those scanners to agree with me.
The P of LAMP used to by PHP. When did it change to Python and did something happened to Apache while I wasn't looking?
People buy many useless "real" things. Any of us does. If that useless stuff is good for the economy so are the useless "virtual" things of many games.
I see your point but I think your conclusion doesn't take into account that people like to invent new things and that there will always be leaders to motivate other people to help them researching and building new stuff. So progress won't end if we had sci-fi all-you-can-wish factories but people that just want to eat, drink and get tan will be able to bore themselves to death. IMHO that's better than forcing them to work all day just to stay alive.
The assumption is that people spend time producing things they don't need and use money as a tool to facilitate the exchange of that time with the time someone else spends producing the things they need. Example: I write sw that I don't need but I need food somebody else produces. If you remove the causes for this assumption is currently true you remove the need for money.
There are some parts of this world were there is little need for money, basically everywhere people produce or collect from the surrounding environment nearly everything they need but that's impossible in areas with more than very small population densities. The kind of organization we need in a world with urban-like population densities requires either money or that a lot of people volunteer to spend time doing unpleasant activities, something that I feel difficult to believe.
There are some sci-fi books with automatic factories that create for free all the stuff people wish but that will be just sci-fi for a long time. Furthermore human nature and physics plays against it. Example: a lot of people might want a house at the sea front of tropical islands but space there is a finite resource. Who gets those house?
Maybe the loophole has been the creation of a new business category: I knew that there are two parties in a contract and everybody else is a third party. I learnt about fourth parties a couple of minutes ago. It could be that I'm ignorant but I can't help thinking that they've been playing with words to work around rules. They should have changed them instead.
The term fourth party doesn't seem widespread: it's about 1/1000th less frequent than "third party" according to google search. Its use seems related to politics (four party systems) and logistics. By the way this ./ article made the first page of http://www.google.com/search?q=%22fourth+party%22
That's a malloc-like API to storage. I'm pretty sure there is plenty of CS literature on this subject but I don't have the time to google it. I just write a few quick thoughts about it.
If storage is about as fast as RAM you can work on it as if it were RAM, build data structures on it and persist them. The OS will provide ways to share them with other programs. The storage will be a single in-memory object oriented database.
An example: an editor could persist its internal OO data representation of a text file, with a toString method to make that data available to other editors with different data representation. That implies a lot of data duplication (OK only if fast persistent storage is as cheap as today's hard disks) and the need for a file system that merges all those different data representation into a single name so we can find the file and open it for editing (and the compiler for compiling!).
As this PCM storage won't be as cheap as HD a hierarchy of storage is probably desirable with some caching algorithm to move data from slower disks to faster chips.
I don't know if current mainstream OS can survive to this change so this means that market forces will slow down this change and make it very gradual.
Yes at every company I worked at (150 to 50k employees). One large company had a developers and non-developers environment, both without admin rights but developers could ask permanent admin rights if they could demonstrate that it was required by their job. All developers asked their bosses, bosses did the paperwork and developers got admin rights. Not sure that everybody really needed it as most of us didn't write a single line of code but actually managed contractors that did the job using their company's pcs. For sure we enjoyed the ability to install whatever we wanted on our notebooks that often were our home computers too. By the way, guys with admin rights had to fix of anything going wrong with their pc because requests for assistance would be billed to the budget of the company unit they belonged to.
And why should we care about the publishing industry? Authors will keep writing even without an industry to feed and people will keep reading what they write. It has been like that for thousands of years so it's a viable model of business. People working in the publishing industry will find another job as any worker of companies that are run out of business by better competitors or shrinking markets.
Even with an higher cost per minute if you don't call much you'll end up paying less than the monthly cost of the contract plan.
2: Still takes a while to load and looks ugly!
If you're on Linux this will solve any performance problem from the second time you open OO.
$ sudo apt-get install preload
More info here.
Sometimes my Chromium 4 on Linux breaks on some pages with the Aw snap! error but this is not very important. What's more important is that the ad blockers for Chrome are still very primitive compared to adblock+ for firefox. The GUI for selecting the ads to block is a pain to use and I quickly gave up using it. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser and Chromium for compatibility tests and this won't change until Chromium extensions gets on par in terms of usability (mainly adblock, firebug, noscript)