The old one wasn't Comic-Sans-y enough. They still need to add bad kerning, however.
Yes, and Facebook did the same two months ago. In related news, Donald Knuth has been heard saying that he was starting to work on a new social website and a new web search engine.
I like the original idea behind AfterStep - to make an open source implementation of Obj-C and the Foundation, and Appkit frameworks to make porting OpenSTEP applications to Linux or other open source operating systems easier.
You're thinking of GNUstep (which by the way is not limited to OpenStep's original floating menus). AfterStep started as a configuration file and some applets for fvwm, before forking. Window Maker was written from scratch, and they wrote the WINGs toolkit for it. As the toolkit name says, WINGs Is Not GNUstep. I'm writing this on a Window Maker desktop:)
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
If the hard drive firmware is not proven, this FS won't be any better than ZFS and others. Writing safe file systems is the easy part (even trivial using synchronous writes, when you consider their design is "slow"). The impossible part is dealing with firmwares that are known to lie (including pretending than a write is synchronous): how could you not lose data if the drive didn't ever write the data to the platters in the first place ?
Yep, it reeks American jingoism, yet it is excerpted FTFA, published on managementtoday.co.uk. I wonder if Stephen Bayley (article's author, himself a Welsh, "design critic, cultural critic, journalist and author", according to Wikipedia) is trolling his readership.
Our last three presidents collectively admitted to smoking pot, using cocaine, driving drunk, sleeping around, eating dog and more. Career-wise, I'll be fine.
I expected a mention about causing the death of thousands of people abroad, but apparently there's nothing worse than intoxicating oneself, having sex between consenting adults, and not being a vegetarian.
We recently published on this site an opinion piece whose author was dismissing the usefulness of certifications. We wanted to reassure our advertisers that the author's opinion was strictly his own, and not reflecting Dice's opinion in any way. We at Dice are convinced that the certifications offered by our advertisers are indeed useful and even necessary.
A French private media network CEO called that "available human brain time". Someone translated the surrounding paragraph, if you want some context. And if you can read French, there's a wikipedia article about it, with even more context.
When you say "you don't have to comply", what you're really saying is you don't have to buy an iPhone.
I didn't say, I was quoting the article, that is probably also guessing on that point, because they don't give any source for that allegation. My point was that the summary asserted that if Apple were to implement this patent, it would be a U-turn for them, when the article doesn't state as much. Your allegation is also a biased speculation, especially as buying an Android or a Windows phone is unlikely to protect you, which gets us to the second point.
"Wild speculation" that a company that has filed a patent for a technology has some intention on monetizing that technology.
Large companies are patenting everything they can, because it is cheap to them. They can benefit from these patents in different ways :
Direct monetization by the way of an exclusive feature. In that case, not going to maximize their benefit. What's the point of exclusivity when competitor phone makers have a disjoint set of users ? It's not going to give them more users.
Monetization through patent licensing. Also get them some money from competitors like Google and Microsoft. Amazon would probably be interested, too.
Patent cross-licensing agreement. That's what big companies do. When time comes to renegotiate the agreement, they better have something interesting to show up. They don't get money, but more patents to use.
Defensive patent. If a litigious company is doing something like that, it better properly license that patent before suing. Probably not applicable in that case, as the patent is quite specific.
I notice that quite a few Slashdotters are going with "prevent other companies to implement methods described by that patent", but that is wishful thinking:) .
Maybe it is ! And with the reporting spin, it amounts to 540 degrees ! Plus, the submitter didn't mention degrees (or it has been eaten by slashcode, see: "°" : ""). Maybe it's 360 half-degrees ? There's no way to know as TFA doesn't mention it.
Don’t worry, this service is opt-in so if the idea of a giant snooping around your bank makes you uneasy, you don’t have to comply.
See ? Not that bad.
It’s worth noting that this is just a patent, it’s unclear when or if Apple will bring this service into the market or if the actual service will reflect the suggested wording within said patent.
And it's actually a wild speculation.
BTW, can someone tell me how this is promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" ?
HTML entity pound sign (£): £ Literal pound sign, as on my keyboard: £ It's OK for me in preview mode. Maybe it's your browser's encoding that's broken ? I have it set as UTF-8. Your rendering (£ (*)) seems to indicate you sent the byte sequence for UTF-8. But I suspect that your browser set the character encoding as ISO-8859-1 in its headers.
While I'm at it: "" <- This was supposed to be the "no" hiragana. Disallowed characters are stripped, rather than being "converted" to mojibake.
(*) Fun fact: rendered as £ in your comment and in editing mode, but as £ in preview mode.
I will have to check that, but I'm using Adium (for Mac OS X). It's also relying on libpurple, so I hope it will work. By the way, the submitter is uninformed, Facebook Chat API (using OAuth) stopped working weeks ago. But it seems login/password XMPP was still working. I meant to do just that, but I guess it's too late now:)
Mr. Smith's salary has increased by $77 000 (notice how that's exactly how it's worded: by 350%) , not "to" $77 000.
If their answer was to be believed, the original statement should have been that his current salary is 350% of what was his salary 20 years ago. One could also say that his salary has increased by $3.5 (% = 1/100 = 0.01, right ?) .
I suspect that % is the more irregular symbol of mathematics. Most people don't know how to correctly use it in most contexts.
Then you could have a laugh asking them how much that makes in average annual increase (answer is not (350/20)%).
Stopped reading when I saw Linus Tovalds on that list.
You should have continued, because it gets better:
Mark Zuckerberg [...] Last spring, Facebook reportedly turned down a $750 million buyout offer, holding out instead for as much as $2 billion. Bad move. After selling itself to Rupert Murdoch's Fox for $580 million last year, MySpace is now the Web's second most popular website. Facebook is growing too - but given that MySpace has quickly grown into the industry's 80-million-user gorilla, it's hard to imagine who would pay billions for an also-ran.
There's also that gem:
Reed Hastings CEO, Netflix [...] It's simply not clear that anything Hastings has built will give him much of a leg up as the industry shifts toward video-on-demand and other forms of digital distribution. Hastings has created an amazing system for shuffling around 120mm plastic discs, but online rivals such as iTunes and MovieLink seem to have the momentum as we head into the future.
What is MovieLink? "On December 16, 2008 the Movielink website was shut down." Oops! Also mentions the PS3 failure...
I wouldn't blame the coders, unless they where responsible for the technology choices
It's first and foremost a management issue:
However, in the chaos leading up to the multi-platform launch of our expansion, we released incorrect requirements, which were not updated prior to the Mac version’s official release.
However, due to our miscommunication with retailers, the Mac version was made available earlier than intended. As a result, some customers were able to download and play a pre-release build which suffered from performance problems.
If that's not management rotten to the core, what is ?
Rather, it works by employing middleware developed by TransGaming (presently NVIDIA) to convert Windows’ DirectX drawing method into OpenGL on Mac systems.
Any company relying on Microsoft technology to achieve cross-platform deserves a spectacular failure anyway.
Ok, here are some possible benefits over chihowa's proposal, for specific use cases.
- If the use case implies a system/"real" account rather than a virtual one (which I admit is a bad idea most of the time), the implementation practically comes for free: simply create an initially disabled account with a generated password. Particularly useful if the bunch of account creation doesn't actually use an e-mail account at all (say, university students accounts, with account names and initial passwords printed)
- You don't have to develop a different UI to differentiate account validation and regular password change.
- Some (web)mail applications are breaking URLs. Often times systems using generated URLs contain a link, plus a textual representation of the URL in case the link doesn't work (which usually means a text client), and sometimes some kind of pretty printer likes to add spaces after punctuation signs. With a short static URL and a password, you're minimizing copy/paste issues.
Why would you need to generate a password for them, especially if you're going to email it plaintext and make them change it anyway? What possible benefit does that serve?
For example, it prevents you to create a throwaway account with the e-mail address of someone else.
You have to admit, Windows 2.0 benefits greatly from HD displays and millions of colours. At the time of its initial release, you barely had 16 colours for the whole screen, and you had to convey information with them. Nowadays, you can have 16 distinct shades of grey, none of which gives you the slightest clue about if some UI element is actually click-able/tap-able or not, but man, aren't these fonts gorgeous ?
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The old one wasn't Comic-Sans-y enough.
They still need to add bad kerning, however.
Yes, and Facebook did the same two months ago.
In related news, Donald Knuth has been heard saying that he was starting to work on a new social website and a new web search engine.
I like the original idea behind AfterStep - to make an open source implementation of Obj-C and the Foundation, and Appkit frameworks to make porting OpenSTEP applications to Linux or other open source operating systems easier.
You're thinking of GNUstep (which by the way is not limited to OpenStep's original floating menus). :)
AfterStep started as a configuration file and some applets for fvwm, before forking.
Window Maker was written from scratch, and they wrote the WINGs toolkit for it. As the toolkit name says, WINGs Is Not GNUstep.
I'm writing this on a Window Maker desktop
Visual Basic for Applications seems to be a pretty important language on the dark side of the Force.
Windows is up to like 9.x
Well, Microsoft is not counting like you.
Now, I'm no computer scientist, but I can tell if one number is bigger than another.
Can you tell if 7 is bigger than 95 ?
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
If the hard drive firmware is not proven, this FS won't be any better than ZFS and others.
Writing safe file systems is the easy part (even trivial using synchronous writes, when you consider their design is "slow").
The impossible part is dealing with firmwares that are known to lie (including pretending than a write is synchronous): how could you not lose data if the drive didn't ever write the data to the platters in the first place ?
I'm holding out for the 64" tablet.
I'm holding out for the five blades tablet.
That "summary" is just a rambling pile of words.
Yep, it reeks American jingoism, yet it is excerpted FTFA, published on managementtoday.co.uk.
I wonder if Stephen Bayley (article's author, himself a Welsh, "design critic, cultural critic, journalist and author", according to Wikipedia) is trolling his readership.
Privacy = Censorship
I love when Slashdot ideals conflict. Big brother already won !
Our last three presidents collectively admitted to smoking pot, using cocaine, driving drunk, sleeping around, eating dog and more. Career-wise, I'll be fine.
I expected a mention about causing the death of thousands of people abroad, but apparently there's nothing worse than intoxicating oneself, having sex between consenting adults, and not being a vegetarian.
We recently published on this site an opinion piece whose author was dismissing the usefulness of certifications.
We wanted to reassure our advertisers that the author's opinion was strictly his own, and not reflecting Dice's opinion in any way.
We at Dice are convinced that the certifications offered by our advertisers are indeed useful and even necessary.
A French private media network CEO called that "available human brain time".
Someone translated the surrounding paragraph, if you want some context.
And if you can read French, there's a wikipedia article about it, with even more context.
Your biases are showing :)
When you say "you don't have to comply", what you're really saying is you don't have to buy an iPhone.
I didn't say, I was quoting the article, that is probably also guessing on that point, because they don't give any source for that allegation.
My point was that the summary asserted that if Apple were to implement this patent, it would be a U-turn for them, when the article doesn't state as much.
Your allegation is also a biased speculation, especially as buying an Android or a Windows phone is unlikely to protect you, which gets us to the second point.
"Wild speculation" that a company that has filed a patent for a technology has some intention on monetizing that technology.
Large companies are patenting everything they can, because it is cheap to them. They can benefit from these patents in different ways :
I notice that quite a few Slashdotters are going with "prevent other companies to implement methods described by that patent", but that is wishful thinking :) .
360 degrees is not what you think it is
Maybe it is !
And with the reporting spin, it amounts to 540 degrees !
Plus, the submitter didn't mention degrees (or it has been eaten by slashcode, see: "°" : ""). Maybe it's 360 half-degrees ? There's no way to know as TFA doesn't mention it.
Don’t worry, this service is opt-in so if the idea of a giant snooping around your bank makes you uneasy, you don’t have to comply.
See ? Not that bad.
It’s worth noting that this is just a patent, it’s unclear when or if Apple will bring this service into the market or if the actual service will reflect the suggested wording within said patent.
And it's actually a wild speculation.
BTW, can someone tell me how this is promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" ?
HTML entity pound sign (£): £
Literal pound sign, as on my keyboard: £
It's OK for me in preview mode.
Maybe it's your browser's encoding that's broken ? I have it set as UTF-8. Your rendering (£ (*)) seems to indicate you sent the byte sequence for UTF-8. But I suspect that your browser set the character encoding as ISO-8859-1 in its headers.
While I'm at it: "" <- This was supposed to be the "no" hiragana. Disallowed characters are stripped, rather than being "converted" to mojibake.
(*) Fun fact: rendered as £ in your comment and in editing mode, but as £ in preview mode.
I will have to check that, but I'm using Adium (for Mac OS X). It's also relying on libpurple, so I hope it will work. :)
By the way, the submitter is uninformed, Facebook Chat API (using OAuth) stopped working weeks ago. But it seems login/password XMPP was still working. I meant to do just that, but I guess it's too late now
I think the idea is that the CEO will have to pay the fines in person instead of the company, but yes :
the reviews are user-submitted and TripAdvisor can't confirm all details
TripAdvisor is a hugely valuable and reliable resource
Does not compute.
Their obvious math fail.
Mr. Smith's salary has increased by $77 000 (notice how that's exactly how it's worded: by 350%) , not "to" $77 000.
If their answer was to be believed, the original statement should have been that his current salary is 350% of what was his salary 20 years ago.
One could also say that his salary has increased by $3.5 (% = 1/100 = 0.01, right ?) .
I suspect that % is the more irregular symbol of mathematics. Most people don't know how to correctly use it in most contexts.
Then you could have a laugh asking them how much that makes in average annual increase (answer is not (350/20)%).
Stopped reading when I saw Linus Tovalds on that list.
You should have continued, because it gets better:
Mark Zuckerberg
[...] Last spring, Facebook reportedly turned down a $750 million buyout offer, holding out instead for as much as $2 billion. Bad move. After selling itself to Rupert Murdoch's Fox for $580 million last year, MySpace is now the Web's second most popular website. Facebook is growing too - but given that MySpace has quickly grown into the industry's 80-million-user gorilla, it's hard to imagine who would pay billions for an also-ran.
There's also that gem:
Reed Hastings
CEO, Netflix
[...] It's simply not clear that anything Hastings has built will give him much of a leg up as the industry shifts toward video-on-demand and other forms of digital distribution. Hastings has created an amazing system for shuffling around 120mm plastic discs, but online rivals such as iTunes and MovieLink seem to have the momentum as we head into the future.
What is MovieLink? "On December 16, 2008 the Movielink website was shut down." Oops!
Also mentions the PS3 failure...
Anyone have an actual link to the actual paper?
The study is only available on HD DVD.
How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you.
How much do cats actually kill?
I wouldn't blame the coders, unless they where responsible for the technology choices
It's first and foremost a management issue :
However, in the chaos leading up to the multi-platform launch of our expansion, we released incorrect requirements, which were not updated prior to the Mac version’s official release.
However, due to our miscommunication with retailers, the Mac version was made available earlier than intended. As a result, some customers were able to download and play a pre-release build which suffered from performance problems.
If that's not management rotten to the core, what is ?
Rather, it works by employing middleware developed by TransGaming (presently NVIDIA) to convert Windows’ DirectX drawing method into OpenGL on Mac systems.
Any company relying on Microsoft technology to achieve cross-platform deserves a spectacular failure anyway.
You didn't look at the correct picture (assuming this one is not a fake... link straight from wikipedia, by the way).
Ok, here are some possible benefits over chihowa's proposal, for specific use cases.
- If the use case implies a system/"real" account rather than a virtual one (which I admit is a bad idea most of the time), the implementation practically comes for free: simply create an initially disabled account with a generated password. Particularly useful if the bunch of account creation doesn't actually use an e-mail account at all (say, university students accounts, with account names and initial passwords printed)
- You don't have to develop a different UI to differentiate account validation and regular password change.
- Some (web)mail applications are breaking URLs. Often times systems using generated URLs contain a link, plus a textual representation of the URL in case the link doesn't work (which usually means a text client), and sometimes some kind of pretty printer likes to add spaces after punctuation signs. With a short static URL and a password, you're minimizing copy/paste issues.
Why would you need to generate a password for them, especially if you're going to email it plaintext and make them change it anyway? What possible benefit does that serve?
For example, it prevents you to create a throwaway account with the e-mail address of someone else.
You have to admit, Windows 2.0 benefits greatly from HD displays and millions of colours.
At the time of its initial release, you barely had 16 colours for the whole screen, and you had to convey information with them.
Nowadays, you can have 16 distinct shades of grey, none of which gives you the slightest clue about if some UI element is actually click-able/tap-able or not, but man, aren't these fonts gorgeous ?