If only that were true, I can only conclude that you must be new here.
Your right of course that a shit ton of websites have been single platform / single browser over the years. But by and large the majority of the web has been cross-platform, and the situation today is better than its ever been.
I think the web has been a great leveler platform wise and the situation has improved enormously, but I think the majority being cross-platform is relatively recent. Between 2002 and 2008 or so IE had a stranglehold and there are TONS of IE specific applications out there.
Right now with XP support disappearing the companies that invested heavily in Microsofts platform specific technologies, that Microsoft have now basically abandoned themselves. These companies are now scrambling to either migrate off XP and either find (crazy) ways to support their legacy apps or replace them entirely. (Yes Lloyds, I'm looking at you, you and your silly banking friends.)
On the upside, the're a royal fuckton of money to be made helping them.
If you are a careful driver and plan ahead to avoid quick braking, and also accelerate at a very modest rate your benefits would be small with this kind of system. It helps compensate for aggressive driving but it seems like it won't benefit drivers that already are trying to get good gas mileage.
Very true of highway driving, less so for stop and go city traffic.
My father's been involved in alternative energy research since the 70's, I'm pretty sure I heard about regenerative braking with flywheels in the early 80s. (This is what happens when you're related to mad scientists whose idea of fun involves steam engines, solar panels and ocean thermal energy, preferably at the same time...)
1) Golfer wacks ball + rocks with club. 2) Club produces sparks that burn for up to one second igniting surrounding brush. 3) Golfer ignores smoking brush and walks off after his ball.
Makes sense to me!
According the the article:
Steve Concialdi, a captain with the Orange County Fire Authority, in Irvine, said that in both incidents, golfers using 3-irons with titanium-alloy heads had said they hit the ground and created sparks that started the fires.
Supporting argument, if you're swinging a golf club you're not looking at the ground to see what happened to the club, you're looking down the fairway to see what happened to the ball.
When I look at that list, I start to think that "living fossils" have large repetitive genomes. I looked up an article on the mitochondrial genome of the chambered nautilus, and I got the impression that more than anticipated repetition was found.
- "Thou shalt not read The Fine Article!" Alas, I bow my head and obey.
I read the article once, the bastard then turned around and burned my house to the ground, held my family as hostages and blew up the nearest power station.
And for those too lazy to actually read, the CEO appear to completely agree with their now former employee, serious misconduct by the founder in question and the wife is no longer allowed in the building.
This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to comment on what GitHub is doing to address them.
We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer. The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.
GitHub has grown incredibly fast over the past two years, bringing a new set of challenges. Nearly a year ago we began a search for an experienced HR Lead and that person came on board in January 2014. We still have work to do. We know that. However, making sure GitHub employees are getting the right feedback and have a safe way to voice their concerns is a primary focus of the company.
As painful as this experience has been, I am super thankful to Julie for her contributions to GitHub. Her hard work building Passion Projects has made a huge positive impact on both GitHub and the tech community at large, and she's done a lot to help us become a more diverse company. I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It’s certain that there were things we could have done differently. We wish Julie well in her future endeavors.
How do we know that the next update on linux is safe?
Nothing is safe, it never was. A "safe" computer is one with no network behind a locked door where the users have to undergo a full body search before entering the locked room.
Everything else is suspect. That's how NSA and their partners have worked for decades, get used to it.
to pull out my old C64, dust it off and find my floppies.
to a happier and simpler time
I was a VIC 20 guy myself. (Because no matter how many times we explained it to our parents they had no clue why what we really wanted was an Apple][...)
As much as I miss those days, you'll have to pry my modern hardware from my cold dead hands, I rather like living in the 21st century where I can deploy applications to servers around the world with a click of a mouse and read books, watch movies and manipulate my entire music collection from a super computer in the palm of my hand.
Slashdot Mirror
If only that were true, I can only conclude that you must be new here.
Your right of course that a shit ton of websites have been single platform / single browser over the years. But by and large the majority of the web has been cross-platform, and the situation today is better than its ever been.
I think the web has been a great leveler platform wise and the situation has improved enormously, but I think the majority being cross-platform is relatively recent. Between 2002 and 2008 or so IE had a stranglehold and there are TONS of IE specific applications out there.
Right now with XP support disappearing the companies that invested heavily in Microsofts platform specific technologies, that Microsoft have now basically abandoned themselves. These companies are now scrambling to either migrate off XP and either find (crazy) ways to support their legacy apps or replace them entirely. (Yes Lloyds, I'm looking at you, you and your silly banking friends.)
On the upside, the're a royal fuckton of money to be made helping them.
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
[ insert epic synthesizer intro here ]
*The world rumbles as millions of geeks dance badly, scaring pets and spilling drinks the world over.*
Like pretty much any website. Ever
If only that were true, I can only conclude that you must be new here.
Turn in your geek card.
In addition to what other people have already said, his columns on graphics in the old dead-tree version of DDJ were a must-read.
For people into that sort of thing.
Which is but a select subset of a subset of the Slashdot crowd.
Get over yourself... "turn in your geek card" indeed...
What do we have to to do? Make you an offer you can't refuse?
Kids these days.
Two thoughts:
1) How fast do your wheels spin now?
2) How often do they shatter?
If you are a careful driver and plan ahead to avoid quick braking, and also accelerate at a very modest rate your benefits would be small with this kind of system. It helps compensate for aggressive driving but it seems like it won't benefit drivers that already are trying to get good gas mileage.
Very true of highway driving, less so for stop and go city traffic.
My father's been involved in alternative energy research since the 70's, I'm pretty sure I heard about regenerative braking with flywheels in the early 80s. (This is what happens when you're related to mad scientists whose idea of fun involves steam engines, solar panels and ocean thermal energy, preferably at the same time...)
Here's a patent filed in 81 and granted in 85.
This stuff is like clothing fashions, just wait long enough and they'll all come back, hopefully with the patents expired.
I would have agreed with you until I got a 60Mbps connection with unlimited download limit so I could work at home.
The revolution will not be televised.... etc.
Curious...
Are you trying to argue that DVDs are NOT a dying medium?
I ask because that's exactly the opposite of what I see.
They want this to win, they need it to run on UNIX & BSD.
Seriously? Linux is a very small fraction of the desktop market and (other than OSX) any other UNIX or BSD is a very small fraction of that.
They don't need BSD support to win anything other than friendship.
The Year of the Linux Desktop is upon us!
Again?
1) Golfer wacks ball + rocks with club.
2) Club produces sparks that burn for up to one second igniting surrounding brush.
3) Golfer ignores smoking brush and walks off after his ball.
Makes sense to me!
According the the article:
Steve Concialdi, a captain with the Orange County Fire Authority, in Irvine, said that in both incidents, golfers using 3-irons with titanium-alloy heads had said they hit the ground and created sparks that started the fires.
So you're 2 out of 3.
Supporting argument, if you're swinging a golf club you're not looking at the ground to see what happened to the club, you're looking down the fairway to see what happened to the ball.
Pilfering Panda
When I look at that list, I start to think that "living fossils" have large repetitive genomes. I looked up an article on the mitochondrial genome of the chambered nautilus, and I got the impression that more than anticipated repetition was found.
Survival trait?
So you're saying Bitcoin makes it even easier to be a complete idiot?
Perhaps I'm misreading your analogy.
And yes... I'm being facetious, it's kind of my thing.
And Kosovo was an autonomous region in Serbia for hundreds of years. How many bombs did USA and its vassals drop on Yugoslavia to change that?
Unless there have been mass executions of Russian ethnic civilians in Crimea that I've missed, it's not really a fair comparison is it?
A better title would be: Bitcoin protocol is insecure if used badly
- "Thou shalt not read The Fine Article!"
Alas, I bow my head and obey.
I read the article once, the bastard then turned around and burned my house to the ground, held my family as hostages and blew up the nearest power station.
They haven't kept entirely silent. They put a post on the issue up here: https://github.com/blog/1800-u...
And for those too lazy to actually read, the CEO appear to completely agree with their now former employee, serious misconduct by the founder in question and the wife is no longer allowed in the building.
This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to comment on what GitHub is doing to address them.
We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer. The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.
GitHub has grown incredibly fast over the past two years, bringing a new set of challenges. Nearly a year ago we began a search for an experienced HR Lead and that person came on board in January 2014. We still have work to do. We know that. However, making sure GitHub employees are getting the right feedback and have a safe way to voice their concerns is a primary focus of the company.
As painful as this experience has been, I am super thankful to Julie for her contributions to GitHub. Her hard work building Passion Projects has made a huge positive impact on both GitHub and the tech community at large, and she's done a lot to help us become a more diverse company. I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It’s certain that there were things we could have done differently. We wish Julie well in her future endeavors.
Chris Wanstrath
CEO & Co-Founder
Well it's clear why you posted that as anonymous.
I'm so confused!
How do we know that the next update on linux is safe?
Nothing is safe, it never was. A "safe" computer is one with no network behind a locked door where the users have to undergo a full body search before entering the locked room.
Everything else is suspect. That's how NSA and their partners have worked for decades, get used to it.
to pull out my old C64, dust it off and find my floppies.
to a happier and simpler time
I was a VIC 20 guy myself. (Because no matter how many times we explained it to our parents they had no clue why what we really wanted was an Apple][...)
As much as I miss those days, you'll have to pry my modern hardware from my cold dead hands, I rather like living in the 21st century where I can deploy applications to servers around the world with a click of a mouse and read books, watch movies and manipulate my entire music collection from a super computer in the palm of my hand.
The great wiki in the cloud says it is: Trident (layout engine)
All hail the great wiki!