Here in Japan, most vending machines have both hot and cold beverages, including coffee and teas (soda is pretty unusual, on the other hand). Not by self-heating cans, though, but by the lower-tech method of having those cans and bottles in a heated compartment. It's ok as a quick pick-me-up in the morning.
Sure, you could add some exploit code in your copy, if you want. Your "special" code would of course have no chance whatsoever of actually being accepted into the real browser, so you would need to somehow fool people into thinking it is the real version.
But then, how would you spread it? The vast majority of people that get Firefox gets it from the Firefox/mozilla site directly, one of their mirrors, or from their distribution repositories (in the case of Linux or BSD). Just as with adding stuff to the source, you don't have any access to those reputable channels.
If you put it up on some random webpage you may get a few people to download it. But then, you could put any kind of software up there with a malicious load and get a few people to download it - no need to go through Firefox for it. In fact, you probably have greater success fooling people with an app that is not so widely available from reputable sites.
Gnome has a lot of support for various technologies as well, and has had for a long time. Screenreading, yes, but also things like accessible keyboard functions, high-contrast themes, (indirect) support for braille screenreading and the like.
Some of mine were fishing for salmon and hunting deer (not many buffalo this side of the Rockies). Does that count?
Nope. Only buffalo. And your ancestors had better be riding in circles around wagons as well. If we are going to play the insensitive stereotype game, we might as well do it properly:)
*going to chase away polar bears from the Swedish porn movie set using his Volvo*
Those countries (and most - all? - other Commonwealth countries) share the same system of law (from the British legal system), as distinct from the continental system of law used in most other countries.
Sun wasn't first either. There's been a number of "LISP Machines", designed to run LISP efficiently, and there's been several microcontrollers designed with some of FORTH:s lower-level words as opcodes.
Also, a couple of the most well-covered countries in the world are Sweden and Finland; the size of the US west coast, and with low-density, very unevenly distributed population. Most of scandinavia is as empty as anything you can find in the US - but the coverage is still very good.
It won't be a good mapping when neither of the two languages are english, though.
Take an abstract or ambiguous word in one language (that describes a lot of them); it will have multiple related translations in english. Each of them (describing something abstract or ambiguous) will have multiple related translations in the target language. Instead of getting three or four reasonable translation candidates, you end up with several dozen - or more - most of which aren't actually a good fit for the original word.
Having dictionaries for pairs of languages are far, far preferable to going through a third language.
It could be done in a more efficient way however. The first few bytes could tell you if there's something new (a number that increment each time something change) and you would only fetch the whole file if there's something new.
That is more or less how it is working already. The problems mentioned above seem to be mostly due to some feed readers not actually polling for the last change timestamp (or ignoring it) before downloading the entire feed.
I actually find myself wanting to refer back to earlier entries quite often (feeds for software releases, for instance, or go back to check some link on a blog that I didn't have time for earlier).
Of course, if he registered before Apple for that purpose, then it's Apple that's causing confusion regarding his venture, not the other way around, and should be the ones to back down.
Look at it from the other way: have you any reason to believe that the IT industry will buck the trend and not improve worker efficiency, unlike any other industry in existence?
The Gartner analysis isn't preposterous; it's just trite.
It is starting to be automated already, in several ways.
First, recognize that most work is at the first tier - people reading scripts, mostly ("Is it plugged in? Is the switch in the 'ON' position? Have you actually checked? Please check again now, sir."). We are seeing the start of real synthetic telehpone operation in other areas (seems every train and airline company has such a system for booking today). It's likely a matter of not too many years before it is used - and used fairly well - in preference to large callcenters.
Second, more and more of the "advanced" stuff will become so much easier to handle that it, too will gradually move down to the level at which it can be handled by scripts. Better diagnostic tools (not to mention real automated remote diagnostics), and steady, gradual improvements in the understanding of the problem areas are doing this.
Third, people are becoming more comfortable with remote assistance (we are becoming more comfortable with remote anything), and at the same time, tools for remote administration are becoming better and more sophisticated. Where you might have once needed ten people roaming around assisting people, you may now have three or four - two doing most of the previous work (no time needed to actually 'roam'), and two to go around doing the few things you really need to be there for.
It won't elliminate the job, of course, and noboy claims that it will. But just like in other areas mentioned (manufacturing and agriculture), you will gradually have a lot fewer people doing the work.
Renée Magritte (of "This in not a pipe" fame) went to his studio every morning after breakfast, then came home at the same time every day for dinner with the family, effectively treating the art as his dayjob.
Just because someone really likes doing something - even if they are passionate about it - people may well want to not do it all the time. Most scientists do not actually spend all their waking hours thinking about their work, most mucisians aren't always playing or thinking about music.
Great that those bloggers are lending a hand! With the economic expansion and lack of time and all, the dust has really been piling up in the corners lately.
The only whining I see in this thread is from you.
Nobody is complaining about it; they are merely responding to the parent poster regarding possible reasons people are surfing slashdot even though it is thanksgiving night in the US.
Sweden is certainly a lot longer than that - and n0ot unusual for people from the north to move south for university or work. Also, it is becoming more and more common for people to work in other European countries, living even farther from their families.
This distance pissing contest is moot, however, beyond a certain distance. As soon as you live far enough that airplane is the only reasonably quick way to close the distance (perhaps 1000km, depending on the available alternatives), it doesn't really matter much how far you live until you start changing continents. And that only becomes a factor due to the cost of travel, not the time as such.
I can say I have almost the same amount of contact with my parents when I live in Japan as when I lived in southern Sweden. In some ways more, as we tend to call more often, rather than wait for infrequent visits.
Sueeden ni wa, minna ga gaikokugo o benkyou suru kara, nihongo o wakaru no wa okashikunai desu ne.
Also, like me, he may well live or have lived in Japan. It's pretty common for Swedes to live in other countries for a period - you certainly seem to stumble upon us far more frequently than the size of our country would suggest.
So I could buy the book, walk out the door, scan it, see the price at Amazon, order it, return the book to the 1st vendor, and be done with it. All within a moment.
You don't think it would be easier to simply search by title on Amazon directly, rather than going through all that hoop-jumping with buying and returning?
I really liked Edd Dumbbill's book on Mono - clear, concise and with no filler. It's sad that those traits are so unusual in most technical publishing.
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Here in Japan, most vending machines have both hot and cold beverages, including coffee and teas (soda is pretty unusual, on the other hand). Not by self-heating cans, though, but by the lower-tech method of having those cans and bottles in a heated compartment. It's ok as a quick pick-me-up in the morning.
Sure, you could add some exploit code in your copy, if you want. Your "special" code would of course have no chance whatsoever of actually being accepted into the real browser, so you would need to somehow fool people into thinking it is the real version.
But then, how would you spread it? The vast majority of people that get Firefox gets it from the Firefox/mozilla site directly, one of their mirrors, or from their distribution repositories (in the case of Linux or BSD). Just as with adding stuff to the source, you don't have any access to those reputable channels.
If you put it up on some random webpage you may get a few people to download it. But then, you could put any kind of software up there with a malicious load and get a few people to download it - no need to go through Firefox for it. In fact, you probably have greater success fooling people with an app that is not so widely available from reputable sites.
The next day I was strangely a bit mellow and depressed.
In technical terms, that is called a "hangover".
Gnome has a lot of support for various technologies as well, and has had for a long time. Screenreading, yes, but also things like accessible keyboard functions, high-contrast themes, (indirect) support for braille screenreading and the like.
Some of mine were fishing for salmon and hunting deer (not many buffalo this side of the Rockies). Does that count?
:)
Nope. Only buffalo. And your ancestors had better be riding in circles around wagons as well. If we are going to play the insensitive stereotype game, we might as well do it properly
*going to chase away polar bears from the Swedish porn movie set using his Volvo*
Those countries (and most - all? - other Commonwealth countries) share the same system of law (from the British legal system), as distinct from the continental system of law used in most other countries.
Sun wasn't first either. There's been a number of "LISP Machines", designed to run LISP efficiently, and there's been several microcontrollers designed with some of FORTH:s lower-level words as opcodes.
Japan is not that small. Think California.
Also, a couple of the most well-covered countries in the world are Sweden and Finland; the size of the US west coast, and with low-density, very unevenly distributed population. Most of scandinavia is as empty as anything you can find in the US - but the coverage is still very good.
It won't be a good mapping when neither of the two languages are english, though.
Take an abstract or ambiguous word in one language (that describes a lot of them); it will have multiple related translations in english. Each of them (describing something abstract or ambiguous) will have multiple related translations in the target language. Instead of getting three or four reasonable translation candidates, you end up with several dozen - or more - most of which aren't actually a good fit for the original word.
Having dictionaries for pairs of languages are far, far preferable to going through a third language.
It could be done in a more efficient way however. The first few bytes could tell you if there's something new (a number that increment each time something change) and you would only fetch the whole file if there's something new.
That is more or less how it is working already. The problems mentioned above seem to be mostly due to some feed readers not actually polling for the last change timestamp (or ignoring it) before downloading the entire feed.
Except it'll be an hour before someone implements images in RSS feeds, and then it's 1990 all over again.
We have that already. Boing Boing (mentioned above), for instance, sends image links with their feed, which shows up nicely in Sage.
I actually find myself wanting to refer back to earlier entries quite often (feeds for software releases, for instance, or go back to check some link on a blog that I didn't have time for earlier).
Of course, if he registered before Apple for that purpose, then it's Apple that's causing confusion regarding his venture, not the other way around, and should be the ones to back down.
Is there a way for handicap people to defend against people pushing them over in their new "i-foot"?
Well, what's sopping people from overturning their wheelchairs today? Or kicking away the crutch or walker? Or injuring their guide dog?
If you can't count on other people's basic decency, no safety mechanism is going to help, for any of us.
Look at it from the other way: have you any reason to believe that the IT industry will buck the trend and not improve worker efficiency, unlike any other industry in existence?
The Gartner analysis isn't preposterous; it's just trite.
It is starting to be automated already, in several ways.
First, recognize that most work is at the first tier - people reading scripts, mostly ("Is it plugged in? Is the switch in the 'ON' position? Have you actually checked? Please check again now, sir."). We are seeing the start of real synthetic telehpone operation in other areas (seems every train and airline company has such a system for booking today). It's likely a matter of not too many years before it is used - and used fairly well - in preference to large callcenters.
Second, more and more of the "advanced" stuff will become so much easier to handle that it, too will gradually move down to the level at which it can be handled by scripts. Better diagnostic tools (not to mention real automated remote diagnostics), and steady, gradual improvements in the understanding of the problem areas are doing this.
Third, people are becoming more comfortable with remote assistance (we are becoming more comfortable with remote anything), and at the same time, tools for remote administration are becoming better and more sophisticated. Where you might have once needed ten people roaming around assisting people, you may now have three or four - two doing most of the previous work (no time needed to actually 'roam'), and two to go around doing the few things you really need to be there for.
It won't elliminate the job, of course, and noboy claims that it will. But just like in other areas mentioned (manufacturing and agriculture), you will gradually have a lot fewer people doing the work.
You just described gconf.
And if a key in gconf don't have a documentation string, it's time for a bugreport, as all of them should have one.
Renée Magritte (of "This in not a pipe" fame) went to his studio every morning after breakfast, then came home at the same time every day for dinner with the family, effectively treating the art as his dayjob.
Just because someone really likes doing something - even if they are passionate about it - people may well want to not do it all the time. Most scientists do not actually spend all their waking hours thinking about their work, most mucisians aren't always playing or thinking about music.
Most people, passionate or not, do want a life.
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Great that those bloggers are lending a hand! With the economic expansion and lack of time and all, the dust has really been piling up in the corners lately.
The only whining I see in this thread is from you.
Nobody is complaining about it; they are merely responding to the parent poster regarding possible reasons people are surfing slashdot even though it is thanksgiving night in the US.
Grow a skin.
Sweden is certainly a lot longer than that - and n0ot unusual for people from the north to move south for university or work. Also, it is becoming more and more common for people to work in other European countries, living even farther from their families.
This distance pissing contest is moot, however, beyond a certain distance. As soon as you live far enough that airplane is the only reasonably quick way to close the distance (perhaps 1000km, depending on the available alternatives), it doesn't really matter much how far you live until you start changing continents. And that only becomes a factor due to the cost of travel, not the time as such.
I can say I have almost the same amount of contact with my parents when I live in Japan as when I lived in southern Sweden. In some ways more, as we tend to call more often, rather than wait for infrequent visits.
Sueeden ni wa, minna ga gaikokugo o benkyou suru kara, nihongo o wakaru no wa okashikunai desu ne.
Also, like me, he may well live or have lived in Japan. It's pretty common for Swedes to live in other countries for a period - you certainly seem to stumble upon us far more frequently than the size of our country would suggest.
So I could buy the book, walk out the door, scan it, see the price at Amazon, order it, return the book to the 1st vendor, and be done with it. All within a moment.
You don't think it would be easier to simply search by title on Amazon directly, rather than going through all that hoop-jumping with buying and returning?
No.
I really liked Edd Dumbbill's book on Mono - clear, concise and with no filler. It's sad that those traits are so unusual in most technical publishing.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007922