Actually, no. MySpace was started by some guy, just like LiveJournal, Slashdot, Google, Flickr, etc. Think of a website that was created by a big well-funded company. MTV.com. I'm trying to think of other examples, coming up blank. Help me out if you want, people.
So, pretty much, you'll get nothing new at all, if you believe lack of net neutrality will cut out the little guy.
I've been hearing about genome sequencing for years now, and looked it up on Wikipedia and Google, but for the life of me I can't find out what it actually is, or what it tells you. I know it doesn't tell you what each gene does, although the first time I heard about it, before I thought about it I thought that might be it. Obviously, for any given species the majority of genes are going to be the same. Is sequencing finding out which ones have to be the same? I don't think it could be that, even with a large enough sample size you can never be sure that just because every one you've tested has the same value, every one has to have the same value. And if it can't tell what one value can go in a particular place, it can't tell you what possible values can go in a particular place.... So, doc, what's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
Not true at all. It's all documented, what's allowed nested in what, what's required, so on and so forth. It's just not easy. Automatic validation like that will be a feature of the 1.5 or 2.0 release of my dynamic site generation framework, I've already worked out a way to do it and got it working with Ruby's native object model (although any strong object-oriented language would do), it's just going to be a pain in the ass. Especially getting it to work with Ajax and making strong guarantees about the validity of the (XML|X?HTML)/CSS regardless of how much JS mangling you do--as long as you do it through the framework. I'm not a miracle worker. Luckily, I'm writing it for free, so there's no real downside to taking a ridiculously long time to write a feature of questionable worth.
Oh man, I would love to do tech support for kids. Imagine it! They absorb knowledge like sponges, listen when you talk, don't try to interrupt, and do what they're told, and all they really care about is getting their problem fixed, not how much ass kissing you do in the meantime. Man. That would be like the Mecca for burned-out tech support people.
Looking at the list of functions that it hooks into, I don't see pthread_rwlock*. Are the pthread_rwlock functions implemented using other pthread_* funcs? I haven't run into any problems yet with the project I'm working on, but it would be nice to run through this and make sure everything's working as expected.
Replace "Dodge salesman" with "guy giving away truck". No, not even that, "guy who has the same type of truck", and replace "Customer" with "guy who got a free truck".
If you want to complain about support, go complain to Red Hat. Sure, random people might be assholes, but that's their God given right. Maybe if they were offering something in return, but 99% of the people using Linux don't so much a donate a couple bucks to an OSS project, let alone coding something useful up. I'm usually helpful in forums, even to complete newbies, but if you or anybody thinks it's my job to be nice, well, fuck you, them, and their overblown sense of entitlement.
Out of curiosity, I loaded the image. Thank God for cheap RAM. One interesting thing, Nautilus can thumbnail it in around 250MB of RAM... Firefox took almost a gig.
Ugh, no thanks. That place is the most awful cespool on the Internet. 42TB pages, everybody's got their own shit music playing as if whoever visits wants to hear it, all for the privilege of girls with 6 inches of cake makeup posing for cleavage shots, guys dressed up like Gotti with one eyebrow raised, and the most inane, unintelligible comments imaginable, with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.
You know what? I don't like him either, for completely ridculous reasons. Here's the deal:
I haven't heard of him before this whole laptop thing, so I Googled him. Ah, fuck it, I'll be honest. I wanted to see if he's black. I'm not racist... but that would be God damn funny. Don't look at me like that, picture a black dude named Negroponte, and try not to laugh. I thought so. Anyway, he's not, but in every picture of him with glasses on... well, see for yourself:
He's a douche. I know you shouldn't judge people based on appearance, but nobody but a giant douche would pose with their glasses like that. Even when he's not wearing glasses, he's a douche. He either tans, or somebody tried to get rid of the bags under his eyes and edited the photo way too hard. Since you can clearly see the acne or whatever it is in his 300dpi publicity photo, and since the white is above his eyes as well as below, I'm gonna say he tans. Maybe whoever did his makeup had no idea what they were doing, but trust me, it's not that, he tans.
So, to sum up, I don't really trust anything that comes out of this guy. They're crappy reasons. I'm a bad person for disliking this guy based on a couple of pictures, and maybe someday when he feeds all the starving children of Africa I'll eat my words. But I make crap knee-jerk reactions like this all the time, and 95% of the time they're right. Mark my words, this guy's a douche.
Why would you get charged big-time? A few (hundred) regional servers to make latency as low as possible is going to cost a hell of a lot less than thousands of cell towers.
The seamless handoff doesn't seem that complicated. When you walk into an area with WiFi, the phone contacts the provider's servers, and voice data starts going over a different route. Keep a minimal connection to the cell network so that you can instantly start using it again. I'm not sure how GSM works, but with CDMA, it only uses the bandwitdth it needs, so they're already 95% of the way there. You shouldn't miss any more than ${WIFI_LATENCY} + ${CELL_LATENCY} * 2 packets. Wouldn't be more than a 1/2 second skip in most circumstances. And that's a simplistic and unpolished way of doing it, I'm sure they can come up with better.
Even if they charge the same rate for WiFi, you still have more bandwidth available, voice quality can be better. That having been said, if they want anyone to use this they had better at least charge a lot less for airtime over WiFi. I know it's going to cost them less, and they'll figure out ways to upsell people with this somehow, so if they don't pass along the savings, fuck 'em, I'll purposefully disable it just to cost 'em that extra 1/2 cent an hour.;)
Then it's a good thing the benevolent dictator is in charge of the kernel and not the desktop environment. That kind of approach is great for an API, and if you have very technical users that don't mind spending hours setting things up OK for a desktop environment, but when you come right down to it most users either are idiots or want to behave like they are. That's not to say they're idiots in other areas; a rocket scientist could have problems using their computer, and there's no reason they should be an expert in both rocket science and desktop environments.
I don't consider myself an idiot, but I use Gnome and love it. It's not crippled in terms of functionality, but if an option doesn't really matter it's taken out, and if it does they put a lot of thought into making a sane and consistent way to use it. The environment not only gets out of my way, but helps me along to where I want to go.
Basically, just because he was responsible for the kernel doesn't make him qualified to make these decisions. I still like him, and he makes less asanine comments than most, this is nothing more than another addition to the list of asanine comments he's made.
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Actually, no. MySpace was started by some guy, just like LiveJournal, Slashdot, Google, Flickr, etc. Think of a website that was created by a big well-funded company. MTV.com. I'm trying to think of other examples, coming up blank. Help me out if you want, people.
So, pretty much, you'll get nothing new at all, if you believe lack of net neutrality will cut out the little guy.
Just who I was looking for!
I've been hearing about genome sequencing for years now, and looked it up on Wikipedia and Google, but for the life of me I can't find out what it actually is, or what it tells you. I know it doesn't tell you what each gene does, although the first time I heard about it, before I thought about it I thought that might be it. Obviously, for any given species the majority of genes are going to be the same. Is sequencing finding out which ones have to be the same? I don't think it could be that, even with a large enough sample size you can never be sure that just because every one you've tested has the same value, every one has to have the same value. And if it can't tell what one value can go in a particular place, it can't tell you what possible values can go in a particular place.... So, doc, what's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
Not true at all. It's all documented, what's allowed nested in what, what's required, so on and so forth. It's just not easy. Automatic validation like that will be a feature of the 1.5 or 2.0 release of my dynamic site generation framework, I've already worked out a way to do it and got it working with Ruby's native object model (although any strong object-oriented language would do), it's just going to be a pain in the ass. Especially getting it to work with Ajax and making strong guarantees about the validity of the (XML|X?HTML)/CSS regardless of how much JS mangling you do--as long as you do it through the framework. I'm not a miracle worker. Luckily, I'm writing it for free, so there's no real downside to taking a ridiculously long time to write a feature of questionable worth.
Viva la OSS! It sure takes a long time to write.
Great. Now how am I going to keep my cold pizza?
Oh man, I would love to do tech support for kids. Imagine it! They absorb knowledge like sponges, listen when you talk, don't try to interrupt, and do what they're told, and all they really care about is getting their problem fixed, not how much ass kissing you do in the meantime. Man. That would be like the Mecca for burned-out tech support people.
*gives you a hairy eyeball*
No worries, there will never be such a thing.
And to get "<" use "<"
Looking at the list of functions that it hooks into, I don't see pthread_rwlock*. Are the pthread_rwlock functions implemented using other pthread_* funcs? I haven't run into any problems yet with the project I'm working on, but it would be nice to run through this and make sure everything's working as expected.
Microsoft makes Totem?
From the About page of duffx.com:
Duffx.com will live on until it reaches the point where Duff can no longer afford to support it.
Anyone want to start a pool on this one?
Actually, I'm impressed with duffx.com, whatever it is. I just downloaded this at almost 700KB/s. Yeah, bytes.
Did you just make that comment without even trying the link?
Are you sure about not accepting Czechs [NSFW]?
This is why you're supposed to lurk for a while before posting to online forums.
Er... You must be new here.
Replace "Dodge salesman" with "guy giving away truck". No, not even that, "guy who has the same type of truck", and replace "Customer" with "guy who got a free truck".
If you want to complain about support, go complain to Red Hat. Sure, random people might be assholes, but that's their God given right. Maybe if they were offering something in return, but 99% of the people using Linux don't so much a donate a couple bucks to an OSS project, let alone coding something useful up. I'm usually helpful in forums, even to complete newbies, but if you or anybody thinks it's my job to be nice, well, fuck you, them, and their overblown sense of entitlement.
You are so my hero.
Out of curiosity, I loaded the image. Thank God for cheap RAM. One interesting thing, Nautilus can thumbnail it in around 250MB of RAM... Firefox took almost a gig.
Ugh, no thanks. That place is the most awful cespool on the Internet. 42TB pages, everybody's got their own shit music playing as if whoever visits wants to hear it, all for the privilege of girls with 6 inches of cake makeup posing for cleavage shots, guys dressed up like Gotti with one eyebrow raised, and the most inane, unintelligible comments imaginable, with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.
One page load of a MySpace page averages around 9GB, so yeah, I could see that.
You know what? I don't like him either, for completely ridculous reasons. Here's the deal:
I haven't heard of him before this whole laptop thing, so I Googled him. Ah, fuck it, I'll be honest. I wanted to see if he's black. I'm not racist... but that would be God damn funny. Don't look at me like that, picture a black dude named Negroponte, and try not to laugh. I thought so. Anyway, he's not, but in every picture of him with glasses on... well, see for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponten bio.htm
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/n
He's a douche. I know you shouldn't judge people based on appearance, but nobody but a giant douche would pose with their glasses like that. Even when he's not wearing glasses, he's a douche. He either tans, or somebody tried to get rid of the bags under his eyes and edited the photo way too hard. Since you can clearly see the acne or whatever it is in his 300dpi publicity photo, and since the white is above his eyes as well as below, I'm gonna say he tans. Maybe whoever did his makeup had no idea what they were doing, but trust me, it's not that, he tans.
So, to sum up, I don't really trust anything that comes out of this guy. They're crappy reasons. I'm a bad person for disliking this guy based on a couple of pictures, and maybe someday when he feeds all the starving children of Africa I'll eat my words. But I make crap knee-jerk reactions like this all the time, and 95% of the time they're right. Mark my words, this guy's a douche.
Why would you get charged big-time? A few (hundred) regional servers to make latency as low as possible is going to cost a hell of a lot less than thousands of cell towers.
The seamless handoff doesn't seem that complicated. When you walk into an area with WiFi, the phone contacts the provider's servers, and voice data starts going over a different route. Keep a minimal connection to the cell network so that you can instantly start using it again. I'm not sure how GSM works, but with CDMA, it only uses the bandwitdth it needs, so they're already 95% of the way there. You shouldn't miss any more than ${WIFI_LATENCY} + ${CELL_LATENCY} * 2 packets. Wouldn't be more than a 1/2 second skip in most circumstances. And that's a simplistic and unpolished way of doing it, I'm sure they can come up with better.
Even if they charge the same rate for WiFi, you still have more bandwidth available, voice quality can be better. That having been said, if they want anyone to use this they had better at least charge a lot less for airtime over WiFi. I know it's going to cost them less, and they'll figure out ways to upsell people with this somehow, so if they don't pass along the savings, fuck 'em, I'll purposefully disable it just to cost 'em that extra 1/2 cent an hour. ;)
Real nerds don't open another unnecessary port and STARTTLS instead.
Then it's a good thing the benevolent dictator is in charge of the kernel and not the desktop environment. That kind of approach is great for an API, and if you have very technical users that don't mind spending hours setting things up OK for a desktop environment, but when you come right down to it most users either are idiots or want to behave like they are. That's not to say they're idiots in other areas; a rocket scientist could have problems using their computer, and there's no reason they should be an expert in both rocket science and desktop environments.
I don't consider myself an idiot, but I use Gnome and love it. It's not crippled in terms of functionality, but if an option doesn't really matter it's taken out, and if it does they put a lot of thought into making a sane and consistent way to use it. The environment not only gets out of my way, but helps me along to where I want to go.
Basically, just because he was responsible for the kernel doesn't make him qualified to make these decisions. I still like him, and he makes less asanine comments than most, this is nothing more than another addition to the list of asanine comments he's made.
You mean immortality? I'm down.
You mean 11:11, right?
Oh look, another victim of this terrible disease...