Anyone dumb enough to pay for something that is abundantly free deserves whatever they get.
On another note I have an abundant supply of di-hydrogen monoxide I am looking to sell. It is extremely useful for many applications. Regularly priced at up to $4.00 / litre, I am willing to part with it for only $0.50 / litre. Msg me for details!
The problem with your analogy is that HTTP has to carry a lot more than just flash content.
A better analogy is that optimizing HTTP for flash is like optimizing a transport truck to carry frozen meat by installing refrigeration systems when it only has to carry it from 4-8 PM every second Sunday. A much more optimal solution is to just pack the meat better so it doesn't need such aa truck - ie, if there are problems sending flash over HTTP, then optimize flash to travel over HTTP (after all you don't use it over FTP often...), don't optimize HTTP to carry flash better.
It's stupid because HTTP is a transport protocol and nothing more. Flash is a frigging widgeting and GUI engine. It has absolutely nothing to do with HTTP other than the fact that sometimes you download SWF files with it.
That's why it's a stupid comment. It would be akin to me saying they should redesign bittorrent around ISO files because I download them over it. It isn't the fact that the comment is idiotic that pisses me off, it is that the editors left it in there and decided to post it to the front page of slashdot.
I'm a big fan of delivering software over the web, but simply remote GUI sessions aren't going to do it. Consumers may not know *why* the software acts the way it does, but they will see through the ruse to something they can get for much less than the asking price. Heck, setup a Unix server or Windows Terminal Server and you can push out the app just as effectively.
So you're saying a multi user version of Windws Terminal Server is free now? Where do I sign up?
Seriously - any developer writing modern desktop or server applications that doesn't know how to do multi-threaded programming effectively deserves to be on EI anyway. It is not that difficult.
The real trick is bigger than that. You also have to have some USB flash drive with random pictures encrypted with TrueCrypt. So that when you say you have nothing encrypted and they say "well then why do you have TrueCrypt installed!" you have a plausible explanation.; If you don't then your plausible deniability is no longer very plausible; the very existence of TrueCrypt on your hard drive implies that you encrypted something.
I suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem as they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol.
This statement at the closure of the article is so stupid I don't even know on which angle to attack it first.
As a side note, can we PLEASE gt rid of this horrible trend of submitters adding their own "personal view" on postings? Frankly I don't give a crap. It's bad enough when the editors do it.
If you RTFA, you will see the notice they're sticking up there is that the user is approaching his monthly bandwidth limit and if he reaches it he will be billed additionally.
Phone companies have already done this for years with long distance calls from payphones. "".
There are two types of advertising. Advertising to get you to buy a specific product, and advertising for a brand.
The types of ads you are talking about here (and 99% of all soda ads) are advertising for the brand. The goal of the ad is not to get you to run out and buy a coke now, or even to encourage you to buy Coke for your next 3 hour meeting. It is to implant more and more of the idea that "Coke is good" in your subconscious.
Building a brand is about getting a larger chunk of the pie from the huge swath of the population that really doesn't care too much about your product vs. your main competition. The sole point of these ads is so that when you are in a situation like in a shopping mall in front of a Coke machine and a Pepsi machine, you will choose the Coke machine. You don't really know why, you like the taste of them both just fine, but you just have always *preferred* Coke.
This is different from the Wii, because it is not an impulse-buy item. People don't go to Walmart with the idea that "I am going to buy a video game system" and pick when they get there - they decide and know beforehand. Advertising for non-impulse buy items is to try to get you to buy that PARTICULAR product. There is a degree of brad advertising as well of course, but mostly, ads for these types of things have to be targeted to elicit that "go buy me now" type of response, rather than the subconscious "we are better than Sony" response.
Not only this but the EULA that comes with basically all software makes service agreements a moot point.
When have you ever reported a bug in Office to have MS Say "oh yeah, our bad. We'll send you out a fix for that within the week". Yeah RIGHT.
At least if the product is open source you have the chance to hire any random contractor (or even one of the authors themselves) to fix the bug if it is important to you. No such chance with commercial software.
I think if you actually took the number of Gnome users vs. the number of KDE users globally you would sing a different tune. It is probably very close to a 50/50 split, with a slight leaning toward KDE.
Linux is not like Windows, the whole "default desktop" thing is basically meaningless. If you are the kind of person who installs Linux then you're also the kind of person who can switch desktops on a whim right after install. And most PC retailers who sell PCs pre-installed with Linux use a KDE variant, Dell is the only one I know of who ships Gnome.
Evolution is not just "change". The change has to be either positive or neutral for the species to be maintained.
If the change is negative then competitive pressure will force that change out of the gene pool, thus the change will no longer be present.
This is the point, and why it is a fundamental fact that human evolution has either slowed to a crawl or stopped; Technological and societal evolution has for the most part removed all of these competitive pressures.
If I am born with one leg and no sense of smell, I will still live a happy full life in modern society, and will very likely also find a mate and continue passing on my defective genes. In the animal kingdom, not so much.
First of all, the sickle cell / malaria evolution happened many thousands of years ago so it has nothing to do with what happens today.
Secondly, there are things that have to happen for evolution to take place, both of which are equally important. The first is genetic diversity, which as you point out is very good with our large population. But the second is *competition* among that diversity - and this is where humanity now falls flat on it's face. Technology has progressed to the state that, given equal access to technology, no one person on the planet really has a genetic advantage over another. A person with the sickle-cell gene can live just as long as anyone else given proper treatment. Similarly, someone who contracts malaria will also survive given proper treatment.
If evolution was still allowed to take it's proper course, people who were born with congenital heart defects and brain defects would all die at a very early age. Instead, they are allowed to live full lives in modern society, possibly passing their defective genes along in the pool.
You do know that they proved this like 60 years ago right, when the first Atomic clocks were produced....
In addition there is an atomic clock on the shuttle. The time difference between it and it's perfectly synchronized counterpart on earth is very visible.
Wikipedia is no more or less biased than any other primary source. Al primary sources you would use for a research paper are, y their very nature, extremely biased. That's what makes them primary sources.
And quite frankly - if you are writing a university-level paper and CAN NOT pick out the points of bias in ANY article after the first read through, you don't deserve to be in university. I don't need advanced knowledge on a subject to be able to pick out points of fact vs. points of here-say.
Actually you are right and this is quite common, especially in fragile minority governments like this one.
Frankly I am surprised there is so much hubub over this because there is no way a divisive bill like this would pass in the current fractured parliament.
You can't use a voice print unless you have an existing voice print to compare it to. Even then it is very inexact.
And if you think the police department is the only person who can get a-hold of cell phone records, you are seriously deluding yourself. Anyone can get a-hold of phone records, do some searches on pretexting.
I would never use my cell to call in a violent crime while in visible distance from the perpetrator, it is like signing a death warrant if the perpetrator is not a complete moron.
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Anyone dumb enough to pay for something that is abundantly free deserves whatever they get.
On another note I have an abundant supply of di-hydrogen monoxide I am looking to sell. It is extremely useful for many applications. Regularly priced at up to $4.00 / litre, I am willing to part with it for only $0.50 / litre. Msg me for details!
The problem with your analogy is that HTTP has to carry a lot more than just flash content.
A better analogy is that optimizing HTTP for flash is like optimizing a transport truck to carry frozen meat by installing refrigeration systems when it only has to carry it from 4-8 PM every second Sunday. A much more optimal solution is to just pack the meat better so it doesn't need such aa truck - ie, if there are problems sending flash over HTTP, then optimize flash to travel over HTTP (after all you don't use it over FTP often...), don't optimize HTTP to carry flash better.
If the attacker had access to the main download site and was not a complete ass, they would have just changed the MD5 as well.
It's stupid because HTTP is a transport protocol and nothing more. Flash is a frigging widgeting and GUI engine. It has absolutely nothing to do with HTTP other than the fact that sometimes you download SWF files with it.
That's why it's a stupid comment. It would be akin to me saying they should redesign bittorrent around ISO files because I download them over it. It isn't the fact that the comment is idiotic that pisses me off, it is that the editors left it in there and decided to post it to the front page of slashdot.
So you're saying a multi user version of Windws Terminal Server is free now? Where do I sign up?
And WTF is with not posting a link to the actual app in the summary - http://www.ulteo.com/home/connectme
....it wants it's article back.
Seriously - any developer writing modern desktop or server applications that doesn't know how to do multi-threaded programming effectively deserves to be on EI anyway. It is not that difficult.
The real trick is bigger than that. You also have to have some USB flash drive with random pictures encrypted with TrueCrypt. So that when you say you have nothing encrypted and they say "well then why do you have TrueCrypt installed!" you have a plausible explanation.; If you don't then your plausible deniability is no longer very plausible; the very existence of TrueCrypt on your hard drive implies that you encrypted something.
I suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem as they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol.
This statement at the closure of the article is so stupid I don't even know on which angle to attack it first.
As a side note, can we PLEASE gt rid of this horrible trend of submitters adding their own "personal view" on postings? Frankly I don't give a crap. It's bad enough when the editors do it.
If you RTFA, you will see the notice they're sticking up there is that the user is approaching his monthly bandwidth limit and if he reaches it he will be billed additionally.
Phone companies have already done this for years with long distance calls from payphones. "".
There are two types of advertising. Advertising to get you to buy a specific product, and advertising for a brand.
The types of ads you are talking about here (and 99% of all soda ads) are advertising for the brand. The goal of the ad is not to get you to run out and buy a coke now, or even to encourage you to buy Coke for your next 3 hour meeting. It is to implant more and more of the idea that "Coke is good" in your subconscious.
Building a brand is about getting a larger chunk of the pie from the huge swath of the population that really doesn't care too much about your product vs. your main competition. The sole point of these ads is so that when you are in a situation like in a shopping mall in front of a Coke machine and a Pepsi machine, you will choose the Coke machine. You don't really know why, you like the taste of them both just fine, but you just have always *preferred* Coke.
This is different from the Wii, because it is not an impulse-buy item. People don't go to Walmart with the idea that "I am going to buy a video game system" and pick when they get there - they decide and know beforehand. Advertising for non-impulse buy items is to try to get you to buy that PARTICULAR product. There is a degree of brad advertising as well of course, but mostly, ads for these types of things have to be targeted to elicit that "go buy me now" type of response, rather than the subconscious "we are better than Sony" response.
Not only this but the EULA that comes with basically all software makes service agreements a moot point.
When have you ever reported a bug in Office to have MS Say "oh yeah, our bad. We'll send you out a fix for that within the week". Yeah RIGHT.
At least if the product is open source you have the chance to hire any random contractor (or even one of the authors themselves) to fix the bug if it is important to you. No such chance with commercial software.
It's probably a safety issue somehow.
Burn them to a DVD.
Next.
Seriously I haven't read a paper book cover to cover since I was 17 or so (10 years ago). Have read many multi-hundred page PDFs though.
Maybe we should just have an offender registry that lists everyone who has ever been convicted of any crime?
The police already have this registry. Why do you trust them to have it and it not be public?
I think if you actually took the number of Gnome users vs. the number of KDE users globally you would sing a different tune. It is probably very close to a 50/50 split, with a slight leaning toward KDE.
Linux is not like Windows, the whole "default desktop" thing is basically meaningless. If you are the kind of person who installs Linux then you're also the kind of person who can switch desktops on a whim right after install. And most PC retailers who sell PCs pre-installed with Linux use a KDE variant, Dell is the only one I know of who ships Gnome.
Evolution is not just "change". The change has to be either positive or neutral for the species to be maintained.
If the change is negative then competitive pressure will force that change out of the gene pool, thus the change will no longer be present.
This is the point, and why it is a fundamental fact that human evolution has either slowed to a crawl or stopped; Technological and societal evolution has for the most part removed all of these competitive pressures.
If I am born with one leg and no sense of smell, I will still live a happy full life in modern society, and will very likely also find a mate and continue passing on my defective genes. In the animal kingdom, not so much.
First of all, the sickle cell / malaria evolution happened many thousands of years ago so it has nothing to do with what happens today.
Secondly, there are things that have to happen for evolution to take place, both of which are equally important. The first is genetic diversity, which as you point out is very good with our large population. But the second is *competition* among that diversity - and this is where humanity now falls flat on it's face. Technology has progressed to the state that, given equal access to technology, no one person on the planet really has a genetic advantage over another. A person with the sickle-cell gene can live just as long as anyone else given proper treatment. Similarly, someone who contracts malaria will also survive given proper treatment.
If evolution was still allowed to take it's proper course, people who were born with congenital heart defects and brain defects would all die at a very early age. Instead, they are allowed to live full lives in modern society, possibly passing their defective genes along in the pool.
You do know that they proved this like 60 years ago right, when the first Atomic clocks were produced.... In addition there is an atomic clock on the shuttle. The time difference between it and it's perfectly synchronized counterpart on earth is very visible.
...I think your missing article is here.
WTF is this? Shouldn't this article be about Facebook or some other latest and greatest technology?
How have any of these email issues changed in the past 10 years?
Wikipedia is no more or less biased than any other primary source. Al primary sources you would use for a research paper are, y their very nature, extremely biased. That's what makes them primary sources.
And quite frankly - if you are writing a university-level paper and CAN NOT pick out the points of bias in ANY article after the first read through, you don't deserve to be in university. I don't need advanced knowledge on a subject to be able to pick out points of fact vs. points of here-say.
Actually you are right and this is quite common, especially in fragile minority governments like this one.
Frankly I am surprised there is so much hubub over this because there is no way a divisive bill like this would pass in the current fractured parliament.
You can't use a voice print unless you have an existing voice print to compare it to. Even then it is very inexact.
And if you think the police department is the only person who can get a-hold of cell phone records, you are seriously deluding yourself. Anyone can get a-hold of phone records, do some searches on pretexting.
I would never use my cell to call in a violent crime while in visible distance from the perpetrator, it is like signing a death warrant if the perpetrator is not a complete moron.
And if I am wearing a mask and gloves when I use said pay phone?
Every year that passes it gets more and more difficult to communicate without being monitored.
Either you have no idea what "the singularity" actually refers to specifically, or you are painting with brush strokes about 100 miles wide.