It forces the designer of the program to open the window big enough for all the content to fit in all the time. That is according to spec, not a design flaw. You can also click the green button on the left hand corner to resize it. Either way, there is hardly ever a reason to resize windows for most well-designed programs.
I concur. I make programs that generate documents based on some of these 'open' standards. - LaTeX is really the only thing you can trust if you want an editable text document. However (sadly) outside of scientific literature it's hardly used. - PDF and PostScript is great if you want a read only document, it works but I don't think it's really an open standard. It's more of a form of output, not really a form of carrying information. - ODF is an open standard and works really well but sadly not all editors interpret all tags the same. - OOXML is the worst of all. You simply can't open/read OOXML documents generated by Microsoft Office programmatically - sometimes they won't even pass an XML parser, you can generate documents programmatically according to the OOXML standard but a lot of the functionality (simple things like hyperlinks) will be misinterpreted by Microsoft Office and possibly corrupt the document (unreadable to all) if re-saved in Office.
Yes, Apple has been able to do it for a couple of years now (since the PowerPC era).
Basically a DHCP server says: I have a boot image Client1 says: thanks - starts downloading 0-10% Client2 comes on: starts downloading 10%-100% Client1 continues downloading 10%-100% Client1 boots up Client2 requests 0%-10% Client2 boots up
I think your example involves P2P but unless your client also has the boot image and a mechanism to give it to others after it has booted (which could be potentially a security risk) it doesn't work that way.
That all depends on where you live. I know places in my own city where you can't leave anything unlocked or stuff WILL be gone. Where my aunt-in-law lives she has people checking her door on a monthly basis WHILE she's at home and WHILE people are sitting outside on the other side of the street.
The only reason they don't break through the door (which they have done before) is because it's too much work.
Actually, people don't really know what a millisecond is or how it involves their browsing experience. People that are stuck on IE are used to waiting multiple seconds to have pages load.
Show this ad on national television (not even the superbowl or so) and people will be downloading Chrome in bunches.
It's an awesome ad not just for geeks but for just about anybody. Being able to compare browsing speeds with 'natural' processes we would describe as instantaneous is just mindblowing.
You could rewrite it as: Refusing to hand over access to a remote laptop management system is a bit different than refusing to hand over access to a remote router management system. Is it? Really?
I read the link you provided (in Dutch) and there is one problem with it: It tries to correlate 2 studies based on a single piece of data. The Dutch study shows that when the speed is lower when an accident occurs, the chance of a death is less likely. The Belgian study shows that the camera reduces the average speed of the drivers. That does not mean that because of the camera, there are less deadly accidents on that stretch of road.
To make such a conclusion correct, they should've measured the number of accidents before and after the camera. IF before the camera, on average 2 people die on that stretch of road (~10km) EVERY week (there are not that many accident's in the middle of nowhere) and after the camera's were placed now there is only 1 death per week, you could say that the camera reduces the death toll.
It's just bits moving around the internet. Whether or not you use your bandwidth, the infrastructure to use it is there. Uplinks to the backbones go per Mbit/s not Mbyte/month. Whether you download 30Gbyte/month or 30Gbyte/week doesn't matter to your router, doesn't matter to your ISP's infrastructure. All your ISP has to do is buy bigger uplinks (your provider probably pays around $2-$6/Mbit/month which can easily be oversold 1000:1 which brings the real cost down to 20c/month for 100Mbit/s) and sometimes upgrade the media (which is why you pay them and what yours and your parents' taxes have paid for in the '90's through now). The existing copper can do well over 200Mbit/s in urban environments.
Police enforcement will do. No need to infringe on our privacy for that. And if you say - you're in public, you don't need privacy - I say, wait until someone sends you a picture to your house of you going 1 mph over the speed limit while your mistress is in the car with you.
They don't do anything to slow down speeders. If anything they contribute to accidents and traffic problems since speeders will slam on their brakes when they see one.
In Europe, speeding camera's are common and it's also common to shoot them, burn them or otherwise vandalize them: http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
but even so, how efficient is this for a household using baby diapers and/or could this be connected to a general household 'waste' line? How much does it cost and can I get one.
I hope it will be better than what they got until now. I built an application that creates an Excel sheet using the specs available (OOXML). In the sheet there are hyperlinks to other locations in the document. Now it works when you initially open it. But when you save it (even without making changes), close Excel and open it back up, all the links will be broken. If you just save it, it continues working (Excel doesn't reload the now broken document) until you exit Excel.
There are some other issues related to layout and the spec not being fully open which prevents me from implementing certain features (the features are either not documented or the documented feature doesn't work if implemented the 'correct' way - there is off course no way to figure out how Excel actually implements those features).
Is this basically a call to let down our guard and let the government walk all over our privacy and constitutional rights?
What she's saying is wrong anyway, government is broken not because they can't track everything we do - it's broken because they try to track everything we do. There is a whole slew of agencies that don't even need to exist (or can be slimmed down significantly) just by reducing the reach of the government.
DHS is one of those departments (although I know it houses several departments), it's a layer of bureaucracy designed to give people a false sense of security while bogging down the whole process of immigration and border control while throughout it's existence all it has done is created large databases to track US citizens and non-citizens traveling around the globe. But when you need something from them, it's a lot of manual paperwork, going to see somebody in a booth, get rejected for a misspelling, go back etc. etc.
Same goes for IRS - every year for the past 5 years I had to file (portions of) my paperwork on paper instead of e-filing. Whether it's because I worked in multiple states or because I bought a house and qualified for one of the stimulus packages, when you reach a certain number of papers, you have to manually send it in. Off course this means somebody has to manually file my paperwork in the computer with all the errors that gives which results in an even greater feedback loop of paperwork and manual labor (on both sides) to correct all of that.
Here in NYS you can't pay almost anything at the DMV online without incurring a $5 or $10 convenience fee. They rather you snail mail them a hand written cheque and print out your forms than process your paperwork and payments online. Talking about being inefficient - they already have all my information. I can do everything online except pay them.
In the mean time, businesses find better ways to be more efficient using computers. They can retain certain information without breaching my privacy (unless you're stupid and allow them to retain your full credit card and SSN) and they rather let you do stuff online than going into their offices. My insurance even gives me discounts for not having to walk into a physical place.
I tried it and it didn't work. Windows 7 stalled during installation, eating 100% CPU and didn't progress. At least I got to see that they got rid of the DOS-mode installer.
I came to the same conclusion a couple of years ago. As long as your hardware is built upon open/industry standards and not based in proprietary, closed, one-off systems, Windows is quite inferior to any other system. As more and more systems get moved to the network and have to support a wider variety of devices that are not Windows-based, they will start using more and more the established standards any decent IT shop has been using for years. For printers this means moving to IPP (and Bonjour for auto-discovery) and supporting PostScript which is a pain in the butt to use on Windows.
Another problem is that Windows practically requires a specific driver for any hardware while Linux has been using standard drivers for years. USB ports and SATA ports are another example. They are based on AHCI for SATA, UHCI for USB. However if you change the host for either device controllers in Windows you'll end up blue screening or even not even loading the boot-loader (saying it can't find the hard drive).
Yes, but do you really think people are interested in watching Avatar while having some random idiot voiceover the whole thing about his political views? As long as it is clear that you are using the movie for that political purpose, you would be able to do it. You can't just add a audio track to the DVD about your political views and then redistribute the movie including the original audio tracks and then get away with it as protected by 'free speech'.
There is a thin line between copyrighted not-fair use and fair use in the process of free (political, racial, ideological, religious,...) speech but I believe if there is any doubt, free speech should always prevail (as the constitution and the supreme court have often upheld in the past but corporate interests are trying to erode).
The thing is, he 'kept' his promise on the easy things like funding stuff for arts and violence against women but hasn't been able to fix the 'hard' things like taxes, the economy and discrimination nor did he keep most of his promises on the 'important' things like reforming health care or reducing the influence of money on our lawmakers.
When was the last time you left your SSN, credit card number or a copy of your birth certificate with a random forum? PII is not your name/e-mail address. It's Personal Identifying Information. Your address nor your name makes you you (identifies you) in the business world. Walk into any car dealership and ask them to sell you a car just based on what you tell them your name and address is. What does qualify you to buy a car is the numbers connected to your bank accounts and your credit.
First of all, you can do this with ZFS which is newer tech and works quite well but is not (ever going to be) implemented in the Linux kernel
For lower tech, you can do it the same way we used to do back when hard drives were small. In order to prevent people from filling up the whole hard drive we used to have partitions (now we just pop in more/larger drives in the array)./boot and/var would be in the first parts of the hard drive where the drive was fastest./home could even be on another drive.
You could do the same, put/boot and/usr on your SSD (or whatever you want to be fastest - if you have a X25-E or another fast writing SSD you could put/var on there (for log, tmp etc. if you have a server) or if you have shortage of RAM make it a swap drive. If you have small home folders, you could even put/home on there and leave your mp3's in/opt or so.
The best thing to do about crime is to stop it yourself whenever you see it going on. If you have the nuts for it, you can become a bounty hunter and hunt people down yourself for a living.
I think the blind community has been asking for braille on notes for years now. You make a new bill, you can add braille insets to it. The little additions are nice but not to persons that can't see them to begin with.
Yes it does, kinda. Thanks to our publishing overlords however these 'making available' issues are more difficult than just publishing it online or so. The data cannot be made available as long as a publishing house has copyrights on it and the publishing house usually takes copyright for all work for years including data that is not directly published by them especially when the work is or becomes popular. However NSF/NIH grants usually have the requirement to release all data to the public a couple of years (usually around 10 or 25 years depending on the grant) after collection or publishing. But if you don't publish through one of the big names, your career as a scientist usually doesn't go much of anywhere. Also, a lot of machinery can't be afforded on any grant but a governments' (multi-million dollar machines), the device that collects the data could be funded by the NIH and the grant has the requirements to release data 10 years after collection. However in order to make money to keep the system running, the institution needs other funds from other sources each with their own constraints.
Disclaimer: I am not a scientist but I manage about 60TB of collected data owned or funded by a combination of private/individual funds, internal funds, corporate funds, publishing houses, NIH, NSF and other grants which should or should not be made available to the public.
I always get a kick when somebody says something stupid like that. I've recently heard that in a meeting with management: "Yeah, but if Microsoft's solution doesn't work, we can call them for help and they are liable for the problems with their product". As ANYONE that ever called Microsoft knows, they're not helpful at all and if you spent too much time on their support lines they will come off with something like: well, we don't support customizations, we can't fix that, read the support contract. Under customizations they understand (not kidding): Modifying your SharePoint site to put content on it, installing updates in Windows.
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It forces the designer of the program to open the window big enough for all the content to fit in all the time. That is according to spec, not a design flaw. You can also click the green button on the left hand corner to resize it. Either way, there is hardly ever a reason to resize windows for most well-designed programs.
I concur. I make programs that generate documents based on some of these 'open' standards.
- LaTeX is really the only thing you can trust if you want an editable text document. However (sadly) outside of scientific literature it's hardly used.
- PDF and PostScript is great if you want a read only document, it works but I don't think it's really an open standard. It's more of a form of output, not really a form of carrying information.
- ODF is an open standard and works really well but sadly not all editors interpret all tags the same.
- OOXML is the worst of all. You simply can't open/read OOXML documents generated by Microsoft Office programmatically - sometimes they won't even pass an XML parser, you can generate documents programmatically according to the OOXML standard but a lot of the functionality (simple things like hyperlinks) will be misinterpreted by Microsoft Office and possibly corrupt the document (unreadable to all) if re-saved in Office.
Yes, Apple has been able to do it for a couple of years now (since the PowerPC era).
Basically a DHCP server says: I have a boot image
Client1 says: thanks - starts downloading 0-10%
Client2 comes on: starts downloading 10%-100%
Client1 continues downloading 10%-100%
Client1 boots up
Client2 requests 0%-10%
Client2 boots up
I think your example involves P2P but unless your client also has the boot image and a mechanism to give it to others after it has booted (which could be potentially a security risk) it doesn't work that way.
That all depends on where you live. I know places in my own city where you can't leave anything unlocked or stuff WILL be gone. Where my aunt-in-law lives she has people checking her door on a monthly basis WHILE she's at home and WHILE people are sitting outside on the other side of the street.
The only reason they don't break through the door (which they have done before) is because it's too much work.
Actually, people don't really know what a millisecond is or how it involves their browsing experience. People that are stuck on IE are used to waiting multiple seconds to have pages load.
Show this ad on national television (not even the superbowl or so) and people will be downloading Chrome in bunches.
It's an awesome ad not just for geeks but for just about anybody. Being able to compare browsing speeds with 'natural' processes we would describe as instantaneous is just mindblowing.
Yes because so is Microsoft.
You could rewrite it as: Refusing to hand over access to a remote laptop management system is a bit different than refusing to hand over access to a remote router management system. Is it? Really?
I read the link you provided (in Dutch) and there is one problem with it: It tries to correlate 2 studies based on a single piece of data. The Dutch study shows that when the speed is lower when an accident occurs, the chance of a death is less likely. The Belgian study shows that the camera reduces the average speed of the drivers. That does not mean that because of the camera, there are less deadly accidents on that stretch of road.
To make such a conclusion correct, they should've measured the number of accidents before and after the camera. IF before the camera, on average 2 people die on that stretch of road (~10km) EVERY week (there are not that many accident's in the middle of nowhere) and after the camera's were placed now there is only 1 death per week, you could say that the camera reduces the death toll.
BANDWIDTH IS NOT A FINITE RESOURCE!!!!
It's just bits moving around the internet. Whether or not you use your bandwidth, the infrastructure to use it is there. Uplinks to the backbones go per Mbit/s not Mbyte/month. Whether you download 30Gbyte/month or 30Gbyte/week doesn't matter to your router, doesn't matter to your ISP's infrastructure. All your ISP has to do is buy bigger uplinks (your provider probably pays around $2-$6/Mbit/month which can easily be oversold 1000:1 which brings the real cost down to 20c/month for 100Mbit/s) and sometimes upgrade the media (which is why you pay them and what yours and your parents' taxes have paid for in the '90's through now). The existing copper can do well over 200Mbit/s in urban environments.
Police enforcement will do. No need to infringe on our privacy for that. And if you say - you're in public, you don't need privacy - I say, wait until someone sends you a picture to your house of you going 1 mph over the speed limit while your mistress is in the car with you.
They don't do anything to slow down speeders. If anything they contribute to accidents and traffic problems since speeders will slam on their brakes when they see one.
In Europe, speeding camera's are common and it's also common to shoot them, burn them or otherwise vandalize them: http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
but even so, how efficient is this for a household using baby diapers and/or could this be connected to a general household 'waste' line? How much does it cost and can I get one.
I hope it will be better than what they got until now. I built an application that creates an Excel sheet using the specs available (OOXML). In the sheet there are hyperlinks to other locations in the document. Now it works when you initially open it. But when you save it (even without making changes), close Excel and open it back up, all the links will be broken. If you just save it, it continues working (Excel doesn't reload the now broken document) until you exit Excel.
There are some other issues related to layout and the spec not being fully open which prevents me from implementing certain features (the features are either not documented or the documented feature doesn't work if implemented the 'correct' way - there is off course no way to figure out how Excel actually implements those features).
Is this basically a call to let down our guard and let the government walk all over our privacy and constitutional rights?
What she's saying is wrong anyway, government is broken not because they can't track everything we do - it's broken because they try to track everything we do. There is a whole slew of agencies that don't even need to exist (or can be slimmed down significantly) just by reducing the reach of the government.
DHS is one of those departments (although I know it houses several departments), it's a layer of bureaucracy designed to give people a false sense of security while bogging down the whole process of immigration and border control while throughout it's existence all it has done is created large databases to track US citizens and non-citizens traveling around the globe. But when you need something from them, it's a lot of manual paperwork, going to see somebody in a booth, get rejected for a misspelling, go back etc. etc.
Same goes for IRS - every year for the past 5 years I had to file (portions of) my paperwork on paper instead of e-filing. Whether it's because I worked in multiple states or because I bought a house and qualified for one of the stimulus packages, when you reach a certain number of papers, you have to manually send it in. Off course this means somebody has to manually file my paperwork in the computer with all the errors that gives which results in an even greater feedback loop of paperwork and manual labor (on both sides) to correct all of that.
Here in NYS you can't pay almost anything at the DMV online without incurring a $5 or $10 convenience fee. They rather you snail mail them a hand written cheque and print out your forms than process your paperwork and payments online. Talking about being inefficient - they already have all my information. I can do everything online except pay them.
In the mean time, businesses find better ways to be more efficient using computers. They can retain certain information without breaching my privacy (unless you're stupid and allow them to retain your full credit card and SSN) and they rather let you do stuff online than going into their offices. My insurance even gives me discounts for not having to walk into a physical place.
I tried it and it didn't work. Windows 7 stalled during installation, eating 100% CPU and didn't progress. At least I got to see that they got rid of the DOS-mode installer.
I came to the same conclusion a couple of years ago. As long as your hardware is built upon open/industry standards and not based in proprietary, closed, one-off systems, Windows is quite inferior to any other system. As more and more systems get moved to the network and have to support a wider variety of devices that are not Windows-based, they will start using more and more the established standards any decent IT shop has been using for years. For printers this means moving to IPP (and Bonjour for auto-discovery) and supporting PostScript which is a pain in the butt to use on Windows.
Another problem is that Windows practically requires a specific driver for any hardware while Linux has been using standard drivers for years. USB ports and SATA ports are another example. They are based on AHCI for SATA, UHCI for USB. However if you change the host for either device controllers in Windows you'll end up blue screening or even not even loading the boot-loader (saying it can't find the hard drive).
Yes, but do you really think people are interested in watching Avatar while having some random idiot voiceover the whole thing about his political views? As long as it is clear that you are using the movie for that political purpose, you would be able to do it. You can't just add a audio track to the DVD about your political views and then redistribute the movie including the original audio tracks and then get away with it as protected by 'free speech'.
There is a thin line between copyrighted not-fair use and fair use in the process of free (political, racial, ideological, religious, ...) speech but I believe if there is any doubt, free speech should always prevail (as the constitution and the supreme court have often upheld in the past but corporate interests are trying to erode).
The thing is, he 'kept' his promise on the easy things like funding stuff for arts and violence against women but hasn't been able to fix the 'hard' things like taxes, the economy and discrimination nor did he keep most of his promises on the 'important' things like reforming health care or reducing the influence of money on our lawmakers.
When was the last time you left your SSN, credit card number or a copy of your birth certificate with a random forum? PII is not your name/e-mail address. It's Personal Identifying Information. Your address nor your name makes you you (identifies you) in the business world. Walk into any car dealership and ask them to sell you a car just based on what you tell them your name and address is. What does qualify you to buy a car is the numbers connected to your bank accounts and your credit.
First of all, you can do this with ZFS which is newer tech and works quite well but is not (ever going to be) implemented in the Linux kernel
For lower tech, you can do it the same way we used to do back when hard drives were small. In order to prevent people from filling up the whole hard drive we used to have partitions (now we just pop in more/larger drives in the array). /boot and /var would be in the first parts of the hard drive where the drive was fastest. /home could even be on another drive.
You could do the same, put /boot and /usr on your SSD (or whatever you want to be fastest - if you have a X25-E or another fast writing SSD you could put /var on there (for log, tmp etc. if you have a server) or if you have shortage of RAM make it a swap drive. If you have small home folders, you could even put /home on there and leave your mp3's in /opt or so.
The authorities have no duty to protect anyone: http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kasler-protection.html
The best thing to do about crime is to stop it yourself whenever you see it going on. If you have the nuts for it, you can become a bounty hunter and hunt people down yourself for a living.
I think the blind community has been asking for braille on notes for years now. You make a new bill, you can add braille insets to it. The little additions are nice but not to persons that can't see them to begin with.
Yes it does, kinda. Thanks to our publishing overlords however these 'making available' issues are more difficult than just publishing it online or so. The data cannot be made available as long as a publishing house has copyrights on it and the publishing house usually takes copyright for all work for years including data that is not directly published by them especially when the work is or becomes popular. However NSF/NIH grants usually have the requirement to release all data to the public a couple of years (usually around 10 or 25 years depending on the grant) after collection or publishing. But if you don't publish through one of the big names, your career as a scientist usually doesn't go much of anywhere. Also, a lot of machinery can't be afforded on any grant but a governments' (multi-million dollar machines), the device that collects the data could be funded by the NIH and the grant has the requirements to release data 10 years after collection. However in order to make money to keep the system running, the institution needs other funds from other sources each with their own constraints.
Disclaimer: I am not a scientist but I manage about 60TB of collected data owned or funded by a combination of private/individual funds, internal funds, corporate funds, publishing houses, NIH, NSF and other grants which should or should not be made available to the public.
I always get a kick when somebody says something stupid like that. I've recently heard that in a meeting with management: "Yeah, but if Microsoft's solution doesn't work, we can call them for help and they are liable for the problems with their product". As ANYONE that ever called Microsoft knows, they're not helpful at all and if you spent too much time on their support lines they will come off with something like: well, we don't support customizations, we can't fix that, read the support contract. Under customizations they understand (not kidding): Modifying your SharePoint site to put content on it, installing updates in Windows.
I thought fluoride was good for the teeth ;-)
(Don't look up the fluoride conspiracy theories)