It would be like if we did a "rm -rdf." on the kernel archives, stuck Linus and the kernel developers in a room, and let them start over. How long would it take to redevelop an OS that is as secure as Linux?
Oh, the delicious irony.
That's exactly the series of events that gave us the abomination that is Linux - Linus sat down in his dorm room and reverse-engineered Unix. An OS that had a 20 year head start on development and security fixes and what not.
Dirty Jobs just aired a special episode that I think is on point. The episode introduced the mantra, "Safety third." This is not to say that Safety is unimportant, but that in every case, the safest course is to not engage in an activity with risk. If you put safety first, you won't get anything done at all.
Now, the reason Mike Rowe had safety 3rd was that first was getting the job done (or at least, making a decent attempt) and second was making entertaining television. In most cases, I dare say the 2nd qualification doesn't apply, so Safety coming in second is a better expectation. I actually think Mike was being cavalier by suggesting that Safety is always in the top ten and often the top five. I'd hesitate to keep it out of the top 3 on any occasion, but life wouldn't be worth living if safety truly always came first.
It's doubly ironic that I bring up Dirty Jobs in combination with a discussion about NASA. One of the segments in this very episode lambasted NASA for putting the Dirty Jobs crew through a safety briefing about confined space safety concerns that they were in no way going to actually encounter doing the work that they were going to film. Your tax dollars at work.
AAC files are smaller for the same quality or better for the same file size than MP3. What you call a "walled garden" 1) has no walls (because it's completely open), and 2) like most gardens is much nicer than the wilderness outside.
I was only pointing out that AAC isn't exactly a ubiquitous standard
It doesn't really matter that AAC is an "open standard" when Apple is pretty much the only one using and supporting it in portable players--it's proprietary in effect if not in name.
So what?
iTunes will itself happily convert your AAC purchases to a (larger, crappier sounding) MP3 file, if you insist. No one is forcing you to keep your iTunes purchases in AAC format (this was not the case before when purchases were "protected" AAC). No one is keeping you from using your iTMS purchases on non Apple devices. No one is keeping you from using music purchased from the Amazon music store (or any other) on your iTunes managed devices.
So exactly what part of the iTunes music ecosystem is "closed," again?
Is your entire beef with the iTMS simply about the CODEC they decided to use? Really? It's come to that?
The basic purpose of marketing in general, and advertising specifically, is to both inform your audience about the attributes of your product, but perhaps more crucially to get people to have a positive attitude about your product. People who put flyers for nail salons under the wiper blades of my car, for instance, are the sorts of folks who don't understand that later point. Leaving litter on my car for me to police annoys me. Putting your company's name and address prominently on an object that fosters annoyance demonstrates a certain lack of clarity on the object of the exercise.
Now, there's a rather large gulf between getting a patent on an idea and implementing it. But if Apple, or anyone else, were to implement this idea, I can't imagine there'd be many advertisers stupid enough to say, "Wow! An advertising mechanism that pisses people off and forces them to know who was behind it! Sign us up!"
The ironic part of that is that electricity is probably cheaper at this point, given how much natural gas prices have increased.
Except that electricity prices have generally risen at the same time, mostly because a lot of electricity is made from.... wait for it.... natural gas.
It depends on where you live, but out here on the West (U.S.) Coast, the prevalent heating fuel is natural gas, which is used in the vast majority of forced air furnace and hot water heaters. They work with open flame. Unless you have an electric hot water heater (they do exist, but are phenomenally expensive to run, by comparison, according to my brother-in-law in Florida who has one), it's very likely that your hot water needs are met by fire.
If that's not enough, there's more: Your house likely has copper plumbing pipe in it. Which would have been sweated together with an open flame. You probably have neighbors who occasionally grill meat either over charcoal or natural gas. The list goes on and on.
In other words, it's unlikely that you can entirely escape the metaphor, and even if you can, all it does is demonstrate that you are an outlier.
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
By the time iPhone exclusivity ends, it's very likely that both AT&T and Verizon will have at least started rolling out LTE, meaning that the top two carriers will have a common wireless "platform."
Yeah, but if you know that you want that, then you'll be expecting it. We're talking about being on the lookout for 2 letter TLDs in places you don't expect them.
I think the limitation that nationalized character sets will be restricted to the country TLDs where that language is native is a good first step. Additionally, I believe you're not allowed to use the latin alternative form characters from unicode (like 0xFF20-0xFF5F).
If you're really paranoid, you could just be extra suspicious of domains that end in two letters (and yes, I am including.us), particularly when the 2nd level name is something you recognize, like paypal, ebay, etc. If you're in China, there may indeed be a legitimate paypal.cn, but I suspect it would set off my spidey sense to see a URL like that show up in my e-mail.
Slashdot Mirror
Adults sign their names to what they say.
Rockets have less than 70 years
You have to be more specific than that. The Chinese have had rockets for just shy of a thousand years.
How else would you describe any chemically powered vehicle?
It would be like if we did a "rm -rdf ." on the kernel archives, stuck Linus and the kernel developers in a room, and let them start over. How long would it take to redevelop an OS that is as secure as Linux?
Oh, the delicious irony.
That's exactly the series of events that gave us the abomination that is Linux - Linus sat down in his dorm room and reverse-engineered Unix. An OS that had a 20 year head start on development and security fixes and what not.
Dirty Jobs just aired a special episode that I think is on point. The episode introduced the mantra, "Safety third." This is not to say that Safety is unimportant, but that in every case, the safest course is to not engage in an activity with risk. If you put safety first, you won't get anything done at all.
Now, the reason Mike Rowe had safety 3rd was that first was getting the job done (or at least, making a decent attempt) and second was making entertaining television. In most cases, I dare say the 2nd qualification doesn't apply, so Safety coming in second is a better expectation. I actually think Mike was being cavalier by suggesting that Safety is always in the top ten and often the top five. I'd hesitate to keep it out of the top 3 on any occasion, but life wouldn't be worth living if safety truly always came first.
It's doubly ironic that I bring up Dirty Jobs in combination with a discussion about NASA. One of the segments in this very episode lambasted NASA for putting the Dirty Jobs crew through a safety briefing about confined space safety concerns that they were in no way going to actually encounter doing the work that they were going to film. Your tax dollars at work.
Sigh. You missed it.
AAC files are smaller for the same quality or better for the same file size than MP3. What you call a "walled garden" 1) has no walls (because it's completely open), and 2) like most gardens is much nicer than the wilderness outside.
I was only pointing out that AAC isn't exactly a ubiquitous standard
The support for it is far more widespread than you make it sound.
And let's not forget the DRM on video files,
Which has nothing at all to do with music - stop changing the subject.
It doesn't really matter that AAC is an "open standard" when Apple is pretty much the only one using and supporting it in portable players--it's proprietary in effect if not in name.
So what?
iTunes will itself happily convert your AAC purchases to a (larger, crappier sounding) MP3 file, if you insist. No one is forcing you to keep your iTunes purchases in AAC format (this was not the case before when purchases were "protected" AAC). No one is keeping you from using your iTMS purchases on non Apple devices. No one is keeping you from using music purchased from the Amazon music store (or any other) on your iTunes managed devices.
So exactly what part of the iTunes music ecosystem is "closed," again?
Is your entire beef with the iTMS simply about the CODEC they decided to use? Really? It's come to that?
The basic purpose of marketing in general, and advertising specifically, is to both inform your audience about the attributes of your product, but perhaps more crucially to get people to have a positive attitude about your product. People who put flyers for nail salons under the wiper blades of my car, for instance, are the sorts of folks who don't understand that later point. Leaving litter on my car for me to police annoys me. Putting your company's name and address prominently on an object that fosters annoyance demonstrates a certain lack of clarity on the object of the exercise.
Now, there's a rather large gulf between getting a patent on an idea and implementing it. But if Apple, or anyone else, were to implement this idea, I can't imagine there'd be many advertisers stupid enough to say, "Wow! An advertising mechanism that pisses people off and forces them to know who was behind it! Sign us up!"
There's a lawsuit for that.
Their EVDO 3G is barely better than EDGE (2.5G). I'll take UMTS, even if it isn't available in East Bum-Fuck Kansas.
The ironic part of that is that electricity is probably cheaper at this point, given how much natural gas prices have increased.
Except that electricity prices have generally risen at the same time, mostly because a lot of electricity is made from.... wait for it.... natural gas.
Somehow I don't relate how they welded my water pipes to cooking,
It's not related to cooking, it's related to the GP's original point about the necessity of fire to modern life.
The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly turn those plugs on and off, they could offer more goods to consumers.
In other words, if they don't get their way, they're going to take their ball and go home. Wah.
It depends on where you live, but out here on the West (U.S.) Coast, the prevalent heating fuel is natural gas, which is used in the vast majority of forced air furnace and hot water heaters. They work with open flame. Unless you have an electric hot water heater (they do exist, but are phenomenally expensive to run, by comparison, according to my brother-in-law in Florida who has one), it's very likely that your hot water needs are met by fire.
If that's not enough, there's more: Your house likely has copper plumbing pipe in it. Which would have been sweated together with an open flame. You probably have neighbors who occasionally grill meat either over charcoal or natural gas. The list goes on and on.
In other words, it's unlikely that you can entirely escape the metaphor, and even if you can, all it does is demonstrate that you are an outlier.
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
Just use the keychain.
Oh, you don't have a mac? I'm sorry.
I have the solution!
It was Colonel Tribune, with the forward-slash, on the URL.
I don't think TMobile will be the only choice.
By the time iPhone exclusivity ends, it's very likely that both AT&T and Verizon will have at least started rolling out LTE, meaning that the top two carriers will have a common wireless "platform."
Must really chafe you to no end to see all those "Pedestrians, Equestrians and Bicycles prohibited" signs on the highways.
but Kernighan and Pike are Canadians, so you're about half-right...
No, I was all the way right. Canada is part of America, even if it's not part of the United States.
No, no, no. Americans created Unix, and a Finish college student created a pale imitation.
Yeah, but if you know that you want that, then you'll be expecting it. We're talking about being on the lookout for 2 letter TLDs in places you don't expect them.
RTFA. Internationalized characters in domains are encoded. See also RFC 3492.
You not only didn't read TFA, but you didn't even read the summary very well, did you?
I think the limitation that nationalized character sets will be restricted to the country TLDs where that language is native is a good first step. Additionally, I believe you're not allowed to use the latin alternative form characters from unicode (like 0xFF20-0xFF5F).
If you're really paranoid, you could just be extra suspicious of domains that end in two letters (and yes, I am including .us), particularly when the 2nd level name is something you recognize, like paypal, ebay, etc. If you're in China, there may indeed be a legitimate paypal.cn, but I suspect it would set off my spidey sense to see a URL like that show up in my e-mail.
the fact that packets travel along routers, bridges and gateways
No, no, no. It's not like a big truck. It's a series of tubes!