Because IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 are more or less four completely different browsers. My experience is that there are usually more differences between two IE version's HTML / JS parsing than the difference between Opera, Firefox and Chrome combined.
IE9 is the first browser where Microsoft actually tried. It's not perfect by far, but at least it's trying. IE6 is from the days where companies competed over who could make the most batshit insane browser. IE7 were a major change from IE6, and IE8 was a small change from IE7. But still carrying the El Batshitto legacy from old IE6. IE9 is, as said, a completely different ballpark (it's generally around the same level as firefox v3.6).
Don't be fooled by the name similarity. They truly deserve to be counted separately for each major version.
I'm sure it's easy to poison a tracker into giving out IPs that aren't actually torrenting.
The protocol is dead simple, actually. HTTP GET's and decoder for bencoded formats, and you're halfway to making a database already. Add some web crawling for torrents, and you're set.
Most people here are negative, but I say it's about time. I've been thinking about something similar for years now.
There is a lot of interesting potential in it, if they do it right. For example, allow apps to read (not write, just read) car data, like for example real time fuel use, speed, gear, engine rpm, voltages, brake events, and so on. I can already think of a few apps using that data.
And, many modern cars come with electric control of seat height and angle, mirror position and so on. Why not make a profile system of it? You set things just so, save it, lend it to your son.. And when you get it back (and fixed that bulk on the side), you can just select your profile, and everything turns back the way you wanted it. Steering wheel, radio channels, mirrors, seat, climate control... You could even have different profiles for different situations. One for driving to work in the morning (a bit stiffer back angle, higher temperature), driving around for fun in the summer (own playlist, lower seat, a bit stiffer steering wheel)..
There are a lot of possibilities in it, but most people here only seem to think "Angry Birds on a car!" for some reason.
I feel it's more about paying someone else to do all that server'y stuff, and gives you the freedom to go "I need $foo for $bar time" - and the provider(s) goes "okay" and magically pulls it out of the cloud for you. When you're done with it, it goes back to the cloud, no extra cost to you.
At least, that's the impression I've got from the non-technical people's understanding of it. For techies there's nothing new, per se. It's just that hardware / software have come to a point where large companies find it useful both to sell and to buy, and marketing have managed to find a way to explain it to non-techies.
Probably would have been better had I used Chernobyl as opposed to Fukushima for my example; those statistics are in and readily available.
Well... According to the Wikipedia Charnobyl disaster effects page, the reports vary from 62 deaths (UNSCEAR) to 985,000 deaths (New York Academy of Sciences). Not exactly a clear-cut case.
Also, as a comparison; Banqiao Dam in China (hydro power). The dam failure there killed an estimated 171,000 people.
"Among all of Godâ(TM)s creatures, human beings are the only animals who both laugh and weepâ"for we are the only animals who are struck with the difference between the way things are and the way things ought to be."
-- Methodist Bishop William Willimon
"A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
-- William James
I find it a little ironic that your smug-ridden post entirely fail to understand what the post you replied to were saying.
First off, I would point out that "lot's" does indeed mean something, in this case it's of course a shorthand for "parking lot's" - which clearly shows that the author meant that today's education lacked enough knowledge and experience to fill several parking lot's.
Further on, the gentleman was unambigiously also requesting a more educational focus on Hands-on computing, which is, regrettably, sorely lacking in today's cold society.
And last, but surely not least, with "class room theory" he was directly referring to the fact that today's students learn these newfangled "class based" langages, like for example Java and C#. It's quite clear he requests some real languages to be taught instead, like Assembly, C, Fortran and Perl.
So there you have it, old chap. Quite an embaressing failure on your part there, I'd say. You are indeed lucky to have such wonderful people like me to highlight and educate you in your errors.
Well, that at least is a well-known fact. And if you never had the pleasure of working in a customer service job, and never got the chance to discover this fact for yourself..
When I was taking driving lessions, we had some training for slippery roads. Which involved driving an obstacle course on an oiled road.. The obstacles were some human-like dolls that was hanging from some crane-like system.
In that period, I was also playing Carmageddon 2 a lot. It had fun open-world'ish levels, and pretty good car physics for that time. And it was fun:) I've also played OutRun a lot earlier, and some Need for Speed too.
So, I was driving down the track, and the obstacles were moved in via remote control. The car started to slip, and.. the best way to describe it is that it felt like some switch flipped over in my mind, and my thinking went something like this : "Obstacle 1 and 2, mapped out in a 3d overview of that part of the track. Distances, car's speed, road grip, size & weight estimated.. *calculating*.. Route found, execute.." and I flew through them perfectly, at high speed. The driving instructor just sat there, mouth agape. When he managed to cloe it again, the first words were "Where the hell did you learn to drive like that?" -- which is when I realized that my mind had gone into "gaming mode" more or less. And that it seemed to do rather well in the real world, too, in that occasion. When I think about how inaccurate it is (how many times do you miscalculate in games?), how the goals are skewed there (hitting something at high speed is a minor slowdown, not instant death. And speed is king), it's not a comfortable thought..
Still, it have popped up a few times, and on some of those occations it has saved my bacon. So it's not really as bad as I feared. It mostly happen when the normal brain goes "Oh shit! PANIC TIME" - and at those times it's welcome with something that can dispassionately gather and process data at high speed, and come up with solutions. Of course, sometimes those solutions are not exactly sane.. ("Shoot a rocket at the fucker", or "hitting him in that part of the car will make him skid out of the road").. So it needs an extra sanity check before it can be used.
Take a normal 1080p supporting HDTV. Spend some time reverse engineering it, and connect every pixel on the screen to some AD converters. Technically, if you somehow manage to mux them properly, you'd only need about 2-3 of these to read out all pixels at a 60hz rate.
Uncompressed, a 533MB/s data stream. USB 3 have a maximum transmission speed of up to 5 Gbit/s (640 MB/s). You wouldn't even need a video capture card. Then do some logic in the cpu, and save a compressed stream to disk (First step would probably be badly compressed, would just to be able to handle saving the stream to disk. Next step would probably be a 2-pass mp4 encoding). Then burn to DVD / bluray and sell to customers (which then copy/rip it and upload to pirate bay).
I would say that chinese copiers/knockoff producers would be perfectly capable of such a feat. And if the TV's key somehow gets blacklisted, you grab a new one and spend a week's time getting that up and running.
And that is if they somehow managed to protect the signal all the way until it's time to light up the actual pixels. I'm sure that in most cases they could connect to the stream at an earlier point, and get the raw digital data out.
No one have mentioned this yet? Weird, it looks perfect for what he asks for. Top of the line Android smartphone/tablet hybrid with support for both hands and stylus.
Agree with this. My phone is an SGS2. It has 1.2ghz dualcore, 1gb working RAM, powerful graphics processor that can handle 1080p video no poblem, and 16gb builtin storage. It support bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and have 1080p out. It even have usb host capabilities, but can't be used at the same time as video out.
Yet, even if I was to acquire the needed parts and connect them, it would still be useless as a desktop, despite being in many ways more powerful than my old laptop, which still does its job just fine.
Why can't I use it as desktop? Software. It needs a desktop environment, and that environment need to be able to talk to the gfx card and video out. It could also use a snazzy docking system, but that's technicalities:)
Motorola Atrix experiments a bit with it, but it's still in the "duct tape" category. Maybe we'll have to wait for Apple to put that together in a meaningful way..
Well done it would be pretty cool. Get to work, put phone in dock. It start charging, and the screen, network, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc are connected. You get your normal desktop, start working.
Go out for lunch, grab phone. Something happens back at office, and you need to finish what you worked on ASAP. You pull up the mostly-done file in the phone UI, does some quick finishing touches, and send it.
At home you connect it again, continue reading that webpage your co-worker sent you which you barely got a look at earlier. You then move to the couch, play a few games, watch the latest movie, and then go to sleep.
When out traveling, you got a thin keyboard/mouse/screen thing you plug the phone in when needing to get work done, or if someone gets smart enough to standardize it, rent it from the hotel. At the presentation it's the same. Put in standard gadget, display presentation.
So forth, so forth... The tech is mostly there. The software is mostly there. The phone hardware is already powerful enough for 90% of what we do. And it just get wilder... Quad core, this gpu, over 15 minutes battery time.. The future is bright!
Galaxy Nexus : 720Ã--1280 px at 316 ppi Galaxy Note : 1280x800 px, 13.46 cm (5.3 in) at 285 ppi iPhone 4S : 640Ã--960 resolution at 326 ppi (0.61 MP) HTC Edge : 720x1280
And that's phones, being released now. What kind of screens will phones have in two years? What about tablets in two years?
So.. This far, the only problem I've had is that the power button doesn't bounce back as much as it used to. Can't really complain about the build quality.
"What is the weather like" -> Does not understand (but gives you weather forecast for "what is the weather" - which is arguably wrong;) )
Also: "Understand crazy monkey weather" and "what do you think about this political climate" both returned weather forecast..
Not exactly what I would call "your device recognizing what you mean", to be honest. Still looks mostly like the good old "looking for keywords" approach.
Fully agree with this. In many ways, CSS is the hardest computer language I have to work with regularly, and creates the most headaches.
Yes, it got annoying, random limits, too much of what you want to do is non-obvious, some of the changes are more or less unpredictable, it's too dependent on the HTML structure, and then you got varying browser support on top of that.
SASS does a good job of bringing some sanity to it, but it only adds some basic stuff that should have been standard.
But, on the other hand, when you think of what CSS replaced.... Hoo damn, man. It's like angel harps and delicious cake in comparison. If you'd suggest we go back to that instead of CSS, I would bludgeon you to death with the nearest monitor I could grab for even suggesting something as monstrous as that.
The S2 screen doesn't have as good of dpi as the iPhone 4S
But on the other hand, many reviews comparing SGS2 screen with the old iPhone 4 screen have put the sgs2 screen as the better one. Not sure if that will change with 4S.. From what I've read, I don't think so.
The S2 doesn't have dual antennas for double the bandwidth like the iPhone 4S
"The iPhone 4S supports up to 14.4Mbps download, which is a lot faster than the current iPhone 4. However the SGS2 is HSPA+ ready and produces 21Mbps download speed" (from here)
The iPhone 4S can stream content wirelessly to my AppleTV, while the S2 can not.
However, it can stream content to (and from.. mostly) any DLNA-supporting device.
As for some of the other points, like battery life and UI.. Well, it depens. For UI I can't say I've been missing anything, and it certainly feels pretty fluid. The battery life varies a lot on SGS2, from people reporting less than 1 day, to people reporting 7 days.. For me it lasts about two days with normal use, but I tend to recharge it every night, just to be sure.
You also forgot to mention Siri, which looks to be better voice command system than the default installed on the SGS2. (Of course, siri is not perfect either.. )
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Beware, though, not having that OTP if your cell phone is out of commission. [...] it was the only way to access my email for a while.
so, what happened to that piece of paper that they told you to print out and put in the wallet?
Because IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 are more or less four completely different browsers. My experience is that there are usually more differences between two IE version's HTML / JS parsing than the difference between Opera, Firefox and Chrome combined.
IE9 is the first browser where Microsoft actually tried. It's not perfect by far, but at least it's trying. IE6 is from the days where companies competed over who could make the most batshit insane browser. IE7 were a major change from IE6, and IE8 was a small change from IE7. But still carrying the El Batshitto legacy from old IE6. IE9 is, as said, a completely different ballpark (it's generally around the same level as firefox v3.6).
Don't be fooled by the name similarity. They truly deserve to be counted separately for each major version.
I'm sure it's easy to poison a tracker into giving out IPs that aren't actually torrenting.
The protocol is dead simple, actually. HTTP GET's and decoder for bencoded formats, and you're halfway to making a database already. Add some web crawling for torrents, and you're set.
Tracker protocol:
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrent_Tracker_Protocol
GET announce example from there:
hxxp://some.tracker.com:999/announce
?info_hash=12345678901234567890
&peer_id=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
&ip=255.255.255.255
&port=6881
&downloaded=1234
&left=98765
&event=stopped
And it will answer with a list of active peers (with IP) it already have on that info_hash, in bencoded format.
Bencoded format example:
d4:spaml1:a1:bee represents the dictionary { "spam" => [ "a", "b" ] }
This is more or less a weekend project, if even that.
"um, we accidentally shipped a bug with crash on startup yesterday".
Already done, spectacularly
Most people here are negative, but I say it's about time. I've been thinking about something similar for years now.
There is a lot of interesting potential in it, if they do it right. For example, allow apps to read (not write, just read) car data, like for example real time fuel use, speed, gear, engine rpm, voltages, brake events, and so on. I can already think of a few apps using that data.
And, many modern cars come with electric control of seat height and angle, mirror position and so on. Why not make a profile system of it? You set things just so, save it, lend it to your son.. And when you get it back (and fixed that bulk on the side), you can just select your profile, and everything turns back the way you wanted it. Steering wheel, radio channels, mirrors, seat, climate control... You could even have different profiles for different situations. One for driving to work in the morning (a bit stiffer back angle, higher temperature), driving around for fun in the summer (own playlist, lower seat, a bit stiffer steering wheel)..
There are a lot of possibilities in it, but most people here only seem to think "Angry Birds on a car!" for some reason.
I feel it's more about paying someone else to do all that server'y stuff, and gives you the freedom to go "I need $foo for $bar time" - and the provider(s) goes "okay" and magically pulls it out of the cloud for you. When you're done with it, it goes back to the cloud, no extra cost to you.
At least, that's the impression I've got from the non-technical people's understanding of it. For techies there's nothing new, per se. It's just that hardware / software have come to a point where large companies find it useful both to sell and to buy, and marketing have managed to find a way to explain it to non-techies.
Probably would have been better had I used Chernobyl as opposed to Fukushima for my example; those statistics are in and readily available.
Well... According to the Wikipedia Charnobyl disaster effects page, the reports vary from 62 deaths (UNSCEAR) to 985,000 deaths (New York Academy of Sciences). Not exactly a clear-cut case.
Also, as a comparison; Banqiao Dam in China (hydro power). The dam failure there killed an estimated 171,000 people.
First they ignore you,
then they frown at you,
then they make it illegal,
then they beat you with sticks,
then they imprison you,
then they kill you.
"Among all of Godâ(TM)s creatures, human beings are the only animals who both laugh and weepâ"for we are the only animals who are struck with the difference between the way things are and the way things ought to be."
-- Methodist Bishop William Willimon
"A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
-- William James
I find it a little ironic that your smug-ridden post entirely fail to understand what the post you replied to were saying.
First off, I would point out that "lot's" does indeed mean something, in this case it's of course a shorthand for "parking lot's" - which clearly shows that the author meant that today's education lacked enough knowledge and experience to fill several parking lot's.
Further on, the gentleman was unambigiously also requesting a more educational focus on Hands-on computing, which is, regrettably, sorely lacking in today's cold society.
And last, but surely not least, with "class room theory" he was directly referring to the fact that today's students learn these newfangled "class based" langages, like for example Java and C#. It's quite clear he requests some real languages to be taught instead, like Assembly, C, Fortran and Perl.
So there you have it, old chap. Quite an embaressing failure on your part there, I'd say. You are indeed lucky to have such wonderful people like me to highlight and educate you in your errors.
that the public is a mass of morons
Well, that at least is a well-known fact. And if you never had the pleasure of working in a customer service job, and never got the chance to discover this fact for yourself..
Then have a look at http://clientsfromhell.net/ and http://notalwaysright.com/
Umm Yeah .. and good luck. I will be more careful. Even Bablefish is pretty good, now a days. Just saying ......
English -> chinese -> english again, in google translate
When I was taking driving lessions, we had some training for slippery roads. Which involved driving an obstacle course on an oiled road.. The obstacles were some human-like dolls that was hanging from some crane-like system.
In that period, I was also playing Carmageddon 2 a lot. It had fun open-world'ish levels, and pretty good car physics for that time. And it was fun :) I've also played OutRun a lot earlier, and some Need for Speed too.
So, I was driving down the track, and the obstacles were moved in via remote control. The car started to slip, and .. the best way to describe it is that it felt like some switch flipped over in my mind, and my thinking went something like this : "Obstacle 1 and 2, mapped out in a 3d overview of that part of the track. Distances, car's speed, road grip, size & weight estimated.. *calculating* .. Route found, execute.." and I flew through them perfectly, at high speed.
The driving instructor just sat there, mouth agape. When he managed to cloe it again, the first words were "Where the hell did you learn to drive like that?" -- which is when I realized that my mind had gone into "gaming mode" more or less. And that it seemed to do rather well in the real world, too, in that occasion. When I think about how inaccurate it is (how many times do you miscalculate in games?), how the goals are skewed there (hitting something at high speed is a minor slowdown, not instant death. And speed is king), it's not a comfortable thought..
Still, it have popped up a few times, and on some of those occations it has saved my bacon. So it's not really as bad as I feared. It mostly happen when the normal brain goes "Oh shit! PANIC TIME" - and at those times it's welcome with something that can dispassionately gather and process data at high speed, and come up with solutions. Of course, sometimes those solutions are not exactly sane.. ("Shoot a rocket at the fucker", or "hitting him in that part of the car will make him skid out of the road") .. So it needs an extra sanity check before it can be used.
Take a normal 1080p supporting HDTV. Spend some time reverse engineering it, and connect every pixel on the screen to some AD converters. Technically, if you somehow manage to mux them properly, you'd only need about 2-3 of these to read out all pixels at a 60hz rate.
So.. 1080p, 60hz, 3 colors, 12 bit per color..
1920 * 1080 * (60 hz) * 3 * (12 bits) = 533.935547 MBps (Love Google's builtin calc).
Uncompressed, a 533MB/s data stream. USB 3 have a maximum transmission speed of up to 5 Gbit/s (640 MB/s). You wouldn't even need a video capture card. Then do some logic in the cpu, and save a compressed stream to disk (First step would probably be badly compressed, would just to be able to handle saving the stream to disk. Next step would probably be a 2-pass mp4 encoding). Then burn to DVD / bluray and sell to customers (which then copy/rip it and upload to pirate bay).
I would say that chinese copiers/knockoff producers would be perfectly capable of such a feat. And if the TV's key somehow gets blacklisted, you grab a new one and spend a week's time getting that up and running.
And that is if they somehow managed to protect the signal all the way until it's time to light up the actual pixels. I'm sure that in most cases they could connect to the stream at an earlier point, and get the raw digital data out.
Galaxy Note
No one have mentioned this yet? Weird, it looks perfect for what he asks for. Top of the line Android smartphone/tablet hybrid with support for both hands and stylus.
Agree with this. My phone is an SGS2. It has 1.2ghz dualcore, 1gb working RAM, powerful graphics processor that can handle 1080p video no poblem, and 16gb builtin storage. It support bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and have 1080p out. It even have usb host capabilities, but can't be used at the same time as video out.
Yet, even if I was to acquire the needed parts and connect them, it would still be useless as a desktop, despite being in many ways more powerful than my old laptop, which still does its job just fine.
Why can't I use it as desktop? Software. It needs a desktop environment, and that environment need to be able to talk to the gfx card and video out. It could also use a snazzy docking system, but that's technicalities :)
Motorola Atrix experiments a bit with it, but it's still in the "duct tape" category. Maybe we'll have to wait for Apple to put that together in a meaningful way..
So forth, so forth... The tech is mostly there. The software is mostly there. The phone hardware is already powerful enough for 90% of what we do. And it just get wilder... Quad core, this gpu, over 15 minutes battery time.. The future is bright!
Galaxy Nexus : 720Ã--1280 px at 316 ppi
Galaxy Note : 1280x800 px, 13.46 cm (5.3 in) at 285 ppi
iPhone 4S : 640Ã--960 resolution at 326 ppi (0.61 MP)
HTC Edge : 720x1280
And that's phones, being released now. What kind of screens will phones have in two years? What about tablets in two years?
I'm used to being thought of as being smart. I never had to work hard in high school. Even in university, I did well without having to work too hard.
My biggest problem is that I forget things easily.
Heh, I think you got the same brain I have :) Understanding comes easily, but can't remember anything.
I've had my SGS2 for about half a year now, and while it feels a bit light, thin and cheap, it has held up pretty well.
Two youtube vids:
First, battery cover, which is paper thin, and very many are afraid to break somehow when they get the phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXqnQKs-tA
Second is a drop test (vs iPhone 4S), where the light plastic seem to hold up pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw
So.. This far, the only problem I've had is that the power button doesn't bounce back as much as it used to. Can't really complain about the build quality.
Well..
From that article:
"What is the weather like" -> Does not understand (but gives you weather forecast for "what is the weather" - which is arguably wrong ;) )
Also:
"Understand crazy monkey weather" and "what do you think about this political climate" both returned weather forecast..
Not exactly what I would call "your device recognizing what you mean", to be honest. Still looks mostly like the good old "looking for keywords" approach.
You forgot the new ones:
On a Phone, and On a Tablet
the government cares for and looks out for them.
Yep. Like cattle.
And suddenly everything made sense.
Fully agree with this. In many ways, CSS is the hardest computer language I have to work with regularly, and creates the most headaches.
Yes, it got annoying, random limits, too much of what you want to do is non-obvious, some of the changes are more or less unpredictable, it's too dependent on the HTML structure, and then you got varying browser support on top of that.
SASS does a good job of bringing some sanity to it, but it only adds some basic stuff that should have been standard.
But, on the other hand, when you think of what CSS replaced.... Hoo damn, man. It's like angel harps and delicious cake in comparison. If you'd suggest we go back to that instead of CSS, I would bludgeon you to death with the nearest monitor I could grab for even suggesting something as monstrous as that.
Just some points:
The S2 screen doesn't have as good of dpi as the iPhone 4S
But on the other hand, many reviews comparing SGS2 screen with the old iPhone 4 screen have put the sgs2 screen as the better one. Not sure if that will change with 4S.. From what I've read, I don't think so.
The S2 doesn't have dual antennas for double the bandwidth like the iPhone 4S
"The iPhone 4S supports up to 14.4Mbps download, which is a lot faster than the current iPhone 4. However the SGS2 is HSPA+ ready and produces 21Mbps download speed"
(from here)
The iPhone 4S can stream content wirelessly to my AppleTV, while the S2 can not.
However, it can stream content to (and from.. mostly) any DLNA-supporting device.
As for some of the other points, like battery life and UI.. Well, it depens. For UI I can't say I've been missing anything, and it certainly feels pretty fluid. The battery life varies a lot on SGS2, from people reporting less than 1 day, to people reporting 7 days.. For me it lasts about two days with normal use, but I tend to recharge it every night, just to be sure.
You also forgot to mention Siri, which looks to be better voice command system than the default installed on the SGS2. (Of course, siri is not perfect either.. )
Still going strong :)