Open up the session monitor in your browser of choice and you'll see it as a series of requests. Now the metaphor is much clearer: you're ringing them up, and asking them things. Your browser, on your behalf, is sending the data that lets the session persist and allows inferences to be drawn.
*ring ring* ACME: This is ACME products, how can I help you? John: Hi, I'm John, can you show me products related to 'shoes'? ACME: Okay, here are leather shoes, casual shoes, trainers. John: This is John again. I want casual shoes. ACME: Mens or womens? John: This is John again. Mens please. Brown, size 10. ACME: Here are some styles of mens shoes in that colour. - writes down that John may be male, adult - John: This is John again. Thank you I'd like to buy these ones. ACME: Okay John, done. Would you like to see some women's shoes? John: This is John again. Yes, women's, adult, formal. ACME: Okay John, here are some formal women's shoes - writes down that John may be married to a woman, employed - John: This is John again, bye. *click*
I think the idea that this is 'users' data' to be misleading. It's the company's data regarding a request from a user. If I keep track of how many red or green apples I sell and in which months of the year and whether the seller is male or female or tall or short, that's sales data.
Convenience goes a long way. Hell, convenience is the entire way.
Social media services don't do anything by themselves except make things more convenient. (Be they posting pictures of birthday cakes or shooting yourself in the foot.)
I'm posting this as another message, as it's a more constructive idea even though I think it's a bit silly:
You've hit upon something. Let's say e-mail is the solution. But folks won't like the lack of the features they've become used to on Facebook: the timeline constructed from other folks status updates, the picture gallery cascade, videos, links, discovering new groups, the real time chat, simple urls.
Then... is the solution to write a wrapper over e-mail that presents a Facebook-like interface?
Folks don't honestly give a shit about how Facebook works. They care about what it looks like and what it does. To them, Facebook is its interface. So if e-mail is better: is there a way to make e-mail more Facebook-like for them? This is just me thinking aloud.
Let's take three people, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown. They want to share pictures of cakes, share lighthearted gossip about Mrs. X's wedding, see pictures of other peoples cakes. Then you come in and make a reasoned case against Facebook, it doesn't matter what that case is: let's assume that you convinced all three, at once, to never touch Facebook again save to inform their contacts that they're leaving. They delete whatever accounts they can, and trust FB (wisely or not) to deactivate the rest and dispose of it however.
Now, Smith, Jones and Brown all turn to you and say 'Alright, no Facebook, no FB app, it's all gone. Where do I go to do all the stuff that I would have done on Facebook? Real time chat, picture hosting, messaging, silly stuff, groups. It's not the 90s so we're not using "Yahoo!" but what do we do now?'
You've gone mad, my friend. Nobody mentioned 3D, substantial, or "verifiable experience (to qualify for a console devkit)".
They could do it all in text: write some interactive fiction in some adventure editor (or make a lumpy but functional parser in freebasic). They could accompany it with still pictures; they could use still photographs from the place where they went if they felt like.
But even if they wanted something more realtime in 3D and not write an engine, they could use OGRE and all the rest. Or they could make levels in the Build engine or Quake engine in Worldcraft. Or they could just put together some crazy crap with blocks in Minecraft and overlay some text captions over the top.
If you were to give me money, I could write all kinds of words for you. Tell me all about the configuration, deployment and best practices for your system and we'll work together on some documentation.
Is there a Linux text editor for the console that has an interface similar to MS-DOS Edit?
It really helps in those situations where you're trapped in the shell trying to fix xorg.conf, among other times.
MS-DOS Edit does pretty much all I could want from an editor, runs on thin air, and it has common GUI elements like the status bar, scroll bars and the menu bar which helps me greatly. (I suffer from option amnesia, and a general lack of giving a shit about learning the not-shown shortcuts of other editors.)
You keep asking it and you keep getting the same answer because you're not supplying any constraints. It's quite disingenuous that you don't seem to be doing any of the research yourself. This kind of thing is not a secret; why would it be? Countries that have an immigration policy more inclusive than 'nobody ever' are going to make their requirements well-known to attract immigration of skilled talent. (Or, if they lack unskilled talent, visas may be available in that category instead.)
That's really the most vague wording of that question you've tried yet, and I answered it fully in another one of your comments, but just for you here's the UK's details.
2136 Programmers and software development professionals: The following jobs in visual effects and 2d/3d computer animation for the film, television or video games sectors: - software developer - shader writer - games designer
The following jobs in the electronics systems industry: - driver developer - embedded communications engineer
- certificate of sponsorship reference number - an ‘appropriate’ salary - meet the English requirement - £900 in savings (£945 from 1 July) - this is to prove you can support yourself and you must have had this in your bank account for 90 days before you apply. You don’t need to have £900 in savings (£945 from 1 July) if your sponsor is fully approved (‘A-rated) and they have stated on your certificate of sponsorship that you won’t claim benefits during your stay.
There are other pages for industry captains, exemplar scientists, artists, sportspeople and so on.
So, for the last time: Find a list of countries that meet your own personal requirements (common language, firstly). Discover their requirements by searching online, or telephone them (information can be found from your local library). If you don't have a library, or a phone, or a workplace, or an internet connection, you are poorly equipped to attempt this. Contact their immigration offices to get a definite list with some solid crunchy numbers and facts for you to use as milestones for your application. Determine what businesses are located in your target country that would be hiring peoples with your (verifiable, i.e. certificated) skill set. You will have to search online, or in electronic or paper trade directories/journals, or speak to acquaintances, friends or colleagues. Contact the necessary businesses for information, and eventually interviews, this may cost money; get a part time job. No, this won't be easy if you're too young to work at an adult level, but if you're too young to work you probably don't have the certifications either (there will possibly be age restrictions for minors too) so it's a non-issue. If and when you are conditionally hired and sponsored (if required) by the company in the target country, organise necessary paperwork, double check all prerequisites (housing, medical registration, for example), and execute the plan.
Kamineko writes "Kamineko is proposing that the Firefox browser fucks off. The proposal is designed to prevent websites personalizing content to visitors' tastes, regardless of sites sucking up a user's browsing history, as they do currently. 'Let's say Firefox fucks off' says Kamineko, a dude from the internet. 'As a user, I would have complete control over which of my interests are shared, and with which websites.'"
This is the result of an extended experiment. The idea is that Firefox fucks off and is just a web browser.
You're saying that the love and dedication that little Jane Doe gave to her 100px by 100px animated GIF of a kitty cat produced as part of a soulless-cash-grab by a minimum wage artist working for a corporation granted it a 'soul'?
Sure why not. That sounds pretty cute, and it'll drive anybody who takes the concept of soul too seriously bonkers.
Think about the answer carefully, because it doesn't have anything to do with the design of the the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro. Whether or not the new Start screen is usable or perhaps even better than the previous Start menu designs is irrelevant.
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You've got the wrong metaphor.
Open up the session monitor in your browser of choice and you'll see it as a series of requests. Now the metaphor is much clearer: you're ringing them up, and asking them things. Your browser, on your behalf, is sending the data that lets the session persist and allows inferences to be drawn.
*ring ring*
ACME: This is ACME products, how can I help you?
John: Hi, I'm John, can you show me products related to 'shoes'?
ACME: Okay, here are leather shoes, casual shoes, trainers.
John: This is John again. I want casual shoes.
ACME: Mens or womens?
John: This is John again. Mens please. Brown, size 10.
ACME: Here are some styles of mens shoes in that colour. - writes down that John may be male, adult -
John: This is John again. Thank you I'd like to buy these ones.
ACME: Okay John, done. Would you like to see some women's shoes?
John: This is John again. Yes, women's, adult, formal.
ACME: Okay John, here are some formal women's shoes - writes down that John may be married to a woman, employed -
John: This is John again, bye.
*click*
I think the idea that this is 'users' data' to be misleading. It's the company's data regarding a request from a user. If I keep track of how many red or green apples I sell and in which months of the year and whether the seller is male or female or tall or short, that's sales data.
Aye, as long as it does the job.
Does it have:
- Tabs on bottom option.
- Status bar option.
- Show title bar option.
Compatibility with:
- Imagezoom
- FireFTP
- Adblock Plus
Have you had the issue where you type something in the address bar and it refuses to acknowledge the Return key for several seconds?
Do they maintain it themselves, applying patches and whatnot?
Is there enough storage, bandwidth and processor time for them all?
And they're willing to pay for the hosting?
If so, bravo.
Convenience goes a long way. Hell, convenience is the entire way.
Social media services don't do anything by themselves except make things more convenient. (Be they posting pictures of birthday cakes or shooting yourself in the foot.)
I'm posting this as another message, as it's a more constructive idea even though I think it's a bit silly:
You've hit upon something. Let's say e-mail is the solution. But folks won't like the lack of the features they've become used to on Facebook: the timeline constructed from other folks status updates, the picture gallery cascade, videos, links, discovering new groups, the real time chat, simple urls.
Then... is the solution to write a wrapper over e-mail that presents a Facebook-like interface?
Folks don't honestly give a shit about how Facebook works. They care about what it looks like and what it does. To them, Facebook is its interface. So if e-mail is better: is there a way to make e-mail more Facebook-like for them? This is just me thinking aloud.
You want them to email large images to each other?
That's a lot of bandwidth and storage, and you're not getting facilities like auto-resizing for smaller devices.
And how is that going to scale when you've got groups of people in the three digits?
What's the alternative?
Let's take three people, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown. They want to share pictures of cakes, share lighthearted gossip about Mrs. X's wedding, see pictures of other peoples cakes. Then you come in and make a reasoned case against Facebook, it doesn't matter what that case is: let's assume that you convinced all three, at once, to never touch Facebook again save to inform their contacts that they're leaving. They delete whatever accounts they can, and trust FB (wisely or not) to deactivate the rest and dispose of it however.
Now, Smith, Jones and Brown all turn to you and say 'Alright, no Facebook, no FB app, it's all gone. Where do I go to do all the stuff that I would have done on Facebook? Real time chat, picture hosting, messaging, silly stuff, groups. It's not the 90s so we're not using "Yahoo!" but what do we do now?'
What do you suggest to them?
Bingo. What's next? Maintenance, security.
You've got some software that works.
Now your job, Mozilla, is NOT TO BREAK IT ANY FURTHER..
They're enacting punitive measures.
The statistics for the UK from the website:
And yet on the map graphics it's shown as a bright white 'Free', not 'Partly Free'.
Not quite, mate.
You've gone mad, my friend. Nobody mentioned 3D, substantial, or "verifiable experience (to qualify for a console devkit)".
They could do it all in text: write some interactive fiction in some adventure editor (or make a lumpy but functional parser in freebasic). They could accompany it with still pictures; they could use still photographs from the place where they went if they felt like.
But even if they wanted something more realtime in 3D and not write an engine, they could use OGRE and all the rest. Or they could make levels in the Build engine or Quake engine in Worldcraft. Or they could just put together some crazy crap with blocks in Minecraft and overlay some text captions over the top.
Money is the answer.
If you were to give me money, I could write all kinds of words for you. Tell me all about the configuration, deployment and best practices for your system and we'll work together on some documentation.
Is there a Linux text editor for the console that has an interface similar to MS-DOS Edit?
It really helps in those situations where you're trapped in the shell trying to fix xorg.conf, among other times.
MS-DOS Edit does pretty much all I could want from an editor, runs on thin air, and it has common GUI elements like the status bar, scroll bars and the menu bar which helps me greatly. (I suffer from option amnesia, and a general lack of giving a shit about learning the not-shown shortcuts of other editors.)
Two links, both to paywalled articles.
Fantastic.
You keep asking it and you keep getting the same answer because you're not supplying any constraints. It's quite disingenuous that you don't seem to be doing any of the research yourself. This kind of thing is not a secret; why would it be? Countries that have an immigration policy more inclusive than 'nobody ever' are going to make their requirements well-known to attract immigration of skilled talent. (Or, if they lack unskilled talent, visas may be available in that category instead.)
That's really the most vague wording of that question you've tried yet, and I answered it fully in another one of your comments, but just for you here's the UK's details.
Let's take a typical case. A skilled worker defined is by the UK in the folowing document:
https://www.gov.uk/tier-2-gene...
The list of occupations with exceptionally desirable skills is given:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
On page 6, you'll find:
Eligibility is described in this document:
https://www.gov.uk/tier-2-gene...
If you are a graduate with a credible business idea, you would look here instead:
https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-grad...
There are other pages for industry captains, exemplar scientists, artists, sportspeople and so on.
So, for the last time: Find a list of countries that meet your own personal requirements (common language, firstly). Discover their requirements by searching online, or telephone them (information can be found from your local library). If you don't have a library, or a phone, or a workplace, or an internet connection, you are poorly equipped to attempt this. Contact their immigration offices to get a definite list with some solid crunchy numbers and facts for you to use as milestones for your application. Determine what businesses are located in your target country that would be hiring peoples with your (verifiable, i.e. certificated) skill set. You will have to search online, or in electronic or paper trade directories/journals, or speak to acquaintances, friends or colleagues. Contact the necessary businesses for information, and eventually interviews, this may cost money; get a part time job. No, this won't be easy if you're too young to work at an adult level, but if you're too young to work you probably don't have the certifications either (there will possibly be age restrictions for minors too) so it's a non-issue. If and when you are conditionally hired and sponsored (if required) by the company in the target country, organise necessary paperwork, double check all prerequisites (housing, medical registration, for example), and execute the plan.
Superlative plan.
Get students doing the security work, because the real developers are way too busy screwing around with the user interface and can't be disturbed.
Kamineko writes "Kamineko is proposing that the Firefox browser fucks off. The proposal is designed to prevent websites personalizing content to visitors' tastes, regardless of sites sucking up a user's browsing history, as they do currently. 'Let's say Firefox fucks off' says Kamineko, a dude from the internet. 'As a user, I would have complete control over which of my interests are shared, and with which websites.'"
This is the result of an extended experiment. The idea is that Firefox fucks off and is just a web browser.
You're saying that the love and dedication that little Jane Doe gave to her 100px by 100px animated GIF of a kitty cat produced as part of a soulless-cash-grab by a minimum wage artist working for a corporation granted it a 'soul'?
Sure why not. That sounds pretty cute, and it'll drive anybody who takes the concept of soul too seriously bonkers.
Decent restrooms. Decent kitchens. Decent windowage.
Alright then. Riddle me this:
Why isn't the new Start screen optional?
Think about the answer carefully, because it doesn't have anything to do with the design of the the-interface-formerly-known-as-Metro. Whether or not the new Start screen is usable or perhaps even better than the previous Start menu designs is irrelevant.
Why isn't it optional?
Damn video shot right through Flashblock AND YesScript.
It's a fucking menace. What are you playing at Slashdot?
I don't think anybody here needs telling that the MS Office Ribbon is fubar.
I was really suprised when I learned how blunt the security options in Android were.
I'm used to COMODO IS asking me every time an application attempts to use TCP/UDP, start another process, look at a DLL or stuff like that.
All you get on Android is 'DO YOU WANT APPLICATION TO INTERNET? Y/N' which is totally insufficient.