[blockquote]You REALLY shouldn't be putting anything in an online dating site that can be linked to you.[/blockquote]
You misunderstood me. There are bots out there that crawl the internet as a whole, in the same manner as some harvest emails, and try to harvest picture + name combination. Its rare, but there are some, and sometimes some poor unlucky soul ends up with their name + picture on an online dating site scam. I beleive once on Slashdot they reported how some people broke up over it, and others had issues at work.
I wasn't talking about people deliberately putting their info on a dating web site.
Considering my name is shared with some award winning international "star" (so to speak) of the photography world, good freagin luck finding anything about me by googling my name. You'd have better luck googling my alias, though its becoming more and more used, so that doesn't work very well either, thus ending with employers being sorry out of luck.
I'd be afraid for people who get their name bot-crawled and used in those dating or porn sites though, that could give a nasty feeling if that pops as a first hit with your picture next to it. (I've heard of it happening once or twice with even worse consequences)
Processes are slow, but a stupid browser with a process per tab is never going to be bottlenecked by the insignificant overhead of a process.
You start to feel process bottlenecks if you have a CGI-based web app (let say, a PHP or a PERL app) which runs each request in its own process (which is more or less an obsolete way of doing it). Now that hurts when you're creating hundreds of threads per minutes on a machine thats already taxed by the processing of these requests.
I agree. I worked a lot with stock trading management software, but I didn't know about automated ones that would buy/dump stocks over news items. (The one I worked on would simply analyze a set of rule and then dumped a recommendation, with all of its reasoning and justifications, that a human then reviews, check/unchecked their modification, and then ran -that- through automated trading systems).
Doing it 100% automatically just sounds crazy to me. Especially if its based on uncontroled, automated -news- for christ sake.
I agree. In the marketplace, a well known engine is more important than a "bleeding edge" one, no matter how much better it is. Thats why IE's engine is still so big, and why Gecko is the only one that will make a dent in the short term. If it wasn't for the iphone rabid fanboys, WebKit (which I personally prefer, mind you) wouldn't even be on the radar.
Bleh. I'm working for a multi-billion company, and they post their vendor account information and authentication details on the intranet for everyone to see.
I've worked for one of the 10 largest companies in the world, where consultants had full access to the production sales servers without any kind of auditing or control.
I've worked for banks where third party firms had direct access to the financing database servers.
So that a 500 million company didn't care about something like this happening is pretty much what I'd expect.
You are correct, and indeed (I guess that was your point), no one needs a Union to do that.
For the first 2 years of my career, I was paid twice minimum wadge... not exactly much. I'd be asking that amount during interviews, and not suprisingly, employers were really "happy" about it. Until I realized the mistake. Went over to get another job, and for kicks, asked 4 times what I was making. Got the job. Later on when I switched job, I asked for another 30%. Got it. I quickly realized how much a competent IT worker is worth...
Once you have made a name for yourself, you can ask just short of a blank, signed check and employers will say yes. More vacations? More days off? You just need to ask, you'll get it, even in the current economy. That is, if you're good enough to be worth it.
Yeah, double layered blu ray disk with 40 gigs of padding, 50 gigs of uncompressed 15.1 audio, 10 gigs of locked nude models ala Hot Cofee, and the rest being more or less the same game as we had on PS2 with upped graphics?
They are. Having dealt with some OEM contracts, XP can end up as low as 5$ per license. Then add what companies pay Dell to install crapware, and you end up with negative cost (until people start developing crapware for Linux anyway)
Re:I vote No! There's no need for a Union
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The line between a good and a bad union (or any work environment when related to IT, but also in other fields): if people are promoted using years of experience as a primary mean of making decisions, it will go to hell. Otherwise, it will be fine.
Union or not, it doesn't matter, thats the golden rule, as it affects everything (for example, a poor employee ending up manager because they sat on their rear for 10 years, will then end up with their influence trashing everything under them, etc, while the actually qualified people are overlooked).
Simple as that.
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Chrome Vs. IE 8
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Question: Would it be possible that the memory usage that was measured for IE8 was flawed in the same way?
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Most browser's codebases, at least for historical reasons, come from times when it wasn't common practice to isolate parts of things... Part of it was performance, part of it was simply that it wasn't the culture of the time (like using the safer string handling functions in C/++), etc.
Now, as to why a newer browser wouldn't do it...beats me.
Opera gets their money by making embedded browsers. The more normal users have Opera, the better their embedded browser is. Firefox gets a LOT of money from Google for searches. Microsoft gets an indirect advantage by having less powerful competitors in the web field. In this case, Google comes bundled with Google Gears, and thus push a platform for their future stand alone applications.
Again: ISO has always been corrupt and down, going around at the whim of whoever pushes it harder. Microsoft is just slightly more visible than the usual ISO "customers", which brought an age old issue to light.
Nothing more.
Same can be said for virtually all standard bodies, including the "beloved" W3C.
The same way Internet Explorer has -always- been able to make the difference? "Will know"? I know Slashdot is Firefox territory, but have you at least TRIED using IE once?
Its not 100% yet, but I can take any language supported by it, compile it, take.NET Reflector, and translate it in a bunch of other languages (not all yet).
Of course, since not all languages are exactly the same or even support all of the features, Reflector has to approximate on some stuff...but its still good.
One issue however, is that once you compile, because of the optimisations, its not always possible to perfectly reverse the process: if some functions got inlined, it may not be possible to know what the original was (seems like.NET leaves some trace of it because I've never stumbled on this scenario, but a theoritical other bytecode compiler may not).
One issue still remains though: Languages like Java, C# and VB.NET are mostly all the same... but when you go from a dynamic to a static language, or a functional language... some things simply don't translate.
anyone with impairments that makes it difficult to use a mouse
I'm no Flash developer, but I was under the impression that Flash had gone quite far in accessibility lately. So its up to the developer (like with normal HTML) to make sure its all accessible. Devs just generally don't give a flying duck.
Of course, man in the middle may be the only attack a self signed certificate is vulnerable to, but a man in the middle is (almost) the only attack that can be made on a connection to -begin with-! Its 90% of the reason to use SSL in the first place, for christ' sake.
How are you supposed to intercept the data if you're not somewhere in the middle?
With airports and air carriers being the way they currently are, that 4 hours merely gives him something to do while he waits for his plane that is inevitably late.
When you're doing automated data projections, using previous years of data to try and predict, from trends, the future (so to speak), having 10+ years of data isn't a luxury. And in our field, 10 years of data is often -all- of your data...so well...
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[blockquote]You REALLY shouldn't be putting anything in an online dating site that can be linked to you.[/blockquote]
You misunderstood me. There are bots out there that crawl the internet as a whole, in the same manner as some harvest emails, and try to harvest picture + name combination. Its rare, but there are some, and sometimes some poor unlucky soul ends up with their name + picture on an online dating site scam. I beleive once on Slashdot they reported how some people broke up over it, and others had issues at work.
I wasn't talking about people deliberately putting their info on a dating web site.
Considering my name is shared with some award winning international "star" (so to speak) of the photography world, good freagin luck finding anything about me by googling my name. You'd have better luck googling my alias, though its becoming more and more used, so that doesn't work very well either, thus ending with employers being sorry out of luck.
I'd be afraid for people who get their name bot-crawled and used in those dating or porn sites though, that could give a nasty feeling if that pops as a first hit with your picture next to it. (I've heard of it happening once or twice with even worse consequences)
Processes are slow, but a stupid browser with a process per tab is never going to be bottlenecked by the insignificant overhead of a process.
You start to feel process bottlenecks if you have a CGI-based web app (let say, a PHP or a PERL app) which runs each request in its own process (which is more or less an obsolete way of doing it). Now that hurts when you're creating hundreds of threads per minutes on a machine thats already taxed by the processing of these requests.
I agree. I worked a lot with stock trading management software, but I didn't know about automated ones that would buy/dump stocks over news items. (The one I worked on would simply analyze a set of rule and then dumped a recommendation, with all of its reasoning and justifications, that a human then reviews, check/unchecked their modification, and then ran -that- through automated trading systems).
Doing it 100% automatically just sounds crazy to me. Especially if its based on uncontroled, automated -news- for christ sake.
I agree. In the marketplace, a well known engine is more important than a "bleeding edge" one, no matter how much better it is. Thats why IE's engine is still so big, and why Gecko is the only one that will make a dent in the short term. If it wasn't for the iphone rabid fanboys, WebKit (which I personally prefer, mind you) wouldn't even be on the radar.
Bleh. I'm working for a multi-billion company, and they post their vendor account information and authentication details on the intranet for everyone to see.
I've worked for one of the 10 largest companies in the world, where consultants had full access to the production sales servers without any kind of auditing or control.
I've worked for banks where third party firms had direct access to the financing database servers.
So that a 500 million company didn't care about something like this happening is pretty much what I'd expect.
Man, you're so out of it... Microsoft's naming scheme as of Team Foundation Server's release is so much more precise...
So it would be: Visual Objective J# 2008 Team Edition for Rich Internet Application Developer, Service Pack 1.
You are correct, and indeed (I guess that was your point), no one needs a Union to do that.
For the first 2 years of my career, I was paid twice minimum wadge... not exactly much. I'd be asking that amount during interviews, and not suprisingly, employers were really "happy" about it. Until I realized the mistake. Went over to get another job, and for kicks, asked 4 times what I was making. Got the job. Later on when I switched job, I asked for another 30%. Got it. I quickly realized how much a competent IT worker is worth...
Once you have made a name for yourself, you can ask just short of a blank, signed check and employers will say yes. More vacations? More days off? You just need to ask, you'll get it, even in the current economy. That is, if you're good enough to be worth it.
Yeah, double layered blu ray disk with 40 gigs of padding, 50 gigs of uncompressed 15.1 audio, 10 gigs of locked nude models ala Hot Cofee, and the rest being more or less the same game as we had on PS2 with upped graphics?
They are. Having dealt with some OEM contracts, XP can end up as low as 5$ per license. Then add what companies pay Dell to install crapware, and you end up with negative cost (until people start developing crapware for Linux anyway)
The line between a good and a bad union (or any work environment when related to IT, but also in other fields): if people are promoted using years of experience as a primary mean of making decisions, it will go to hell. Otherwise, it will be fine.
Union or not, it doesn't matter, thats the golden rule, as it affects everything (for example, a poor employee ending up manager because they sat on their rear for 10 years, will then end up with their influence trashing everything under them, etc, while the actually qualified people are overlooked).
Simple as that.
Question: Would it be possible that the memory usage that was measured for IE8 was flawed in the same way?
Most browser's codebases, at least for historical reasons, come from times when it wasn't common practice to isolate parts of things... Part of it was performance, part of it was simply that it wasn't the culture of the time (like using the safer string handling functions in C/++), etc.
Now, as to why a newer browser wouldn't do it...beats me.
Opera gets their money by making embedded browsers. The more normal users have Opera, the better their embedded browser is.
Firefox gets a LOT of money from Google for searches.
Microsoft gets an indirect advantage by having less powerful competitors in the web field.
In this case, Google comes bundled with Google Gears, and thus push a platform for their future stand alone applications.
And so on and so on.
Again: ISO has always been corrupt and down, going around at the whim of whoever pushes it harder. Microsoft is just slightly more visible than the usual ISO "customers", which brought an age old issue to light.
Nothing more.
Same can be said for virtually all standard bodies, including the "beloved" W3C.
Think about it for a sec. How did western "rich" countries become "rich"?
yeah, you got it now...
The same way Internet Explorer has -always- been able to make the difference? "Will know"? I know Slashdot is Firefox territory, but have you at least TRIED using IE once?
Welcome in the world of .NET.
Its not 100% yet, but I can take any language supported by it, compile it, take .NET Reflector, and translate it in a bunch of other languages (not all yet).
Of course, since not all languages are exactly the same or even support all of the features, Reflector has to approximate on some stuff...but its still good.
One issue however, is that once you compile, because of the optimisations, its not always possible to perfectly reverse the process: if some functions got inlined, it may not be possible to know what the original was (seems like .NET leaves some trace of it because I've never stumbled on this scenario, but a theoritical other bytecode compiler may not).
One issue still remains though: Languages like Java, C# and VB.NET are mostly all the same... but when you go from a dynamic to a static language, or a functional language... some things simply don't translate.
I'm no Flash developer, but I was under the impression that Flash had gone quite far in accessibility lately. So its up to the developer (like with normal HTML) to make sure its all accessible. Devs just generally don't give a flying duck.
Of course, man in the middle may be the only attack a self signed certificate is vulnerable to, but a man in the middle is (almost) the only attack that can be made on a connection to -begin with-! Its 90% of the reason to use SSL in the first place, for christ' sake.
How are you supposed to intercept the data if you're not somewhere in the middle?
Call me when I can use this to get free filet mignion and tuna steak...
With airports and air carriers being the way they currently are, that 4 hours merely gives him something to do while he waits for his plane that is inevitably late.
That will be the day I go back to yellow post-it notes and board games.
When you're doing automated data projections, using previous years of data to try and predict, from trends, the future (so to speak), having 10+ years of data isn't a luxury. And in our field, 10 years of data is often -all- of your data...so well...
YOU GOT IT! Thats exactly it!!! I couldn't I notice myself... It is so obvious now that you mention it...
Europe has better engineers than America!