I don't see that Opera has done anything particularly protest-worthy here. Maintaining proxies to circumvent oppressive regimes' firewalls, admirable as it might be, is not in my default expectations of a browser company, and I can't help but notice that neither the Mozilla Project, Microsoft or Apple provide such a service, leaving you with few places to turn if you're going to boycott everyone who isn't in the trenches fighting the CPC. It's regrettable that the government of China chose to operate this way, but Opera merely chose to follow the local law by restricting access to a service, much as every search engine of note has done, in China, Germany, the US and elsewhere. If we as a society really don't want to economically aid a state employing political censorship, we should stop pussy-footing around and enact a proper embargo. Yeah, that won't happen.
I differentiate between not actively resisting, and actively aiding, though. If, for instance, Opera released the internet browsing history of individuals on request, that'd be a serious breach of trust in my eyes, and I'd do my part to name and shame.
From their diagram, which admittedly could be made up of equal parts ignorance and guesswork, it looks like they're envisioning it used as a universal breakout cable.
Though if we could at least get so far that the choice was between IE with the Chrome plugin and IE with the Flash plugin... But of course, I'm sure the IE team has already done the responsible thing and told their friends and family to stay the hell away from that shit.
Basically, Linus' main role in Linux has been to initiate the project.
And manage it, that's huge. He still has the final say on any code that goes into the main line. Any serious kernel developer will have to at least tolerate him, which shapes the direction of Linux immensely.
Well, to be fair, while clearly not as pristine an art form as games with the direct involvement of the peruser they command, there have been movies made that may be said to possess some degree of artistic merit. While not what Nintendo is doing here, a movie that you can optionally interact with isn't per se a bad idea.
Introduction to Algorithms isn't a bad read, and is likely to be the textbook used for any courses you take on the subject. For everything else, there's Knuth.
Huh. One of the interesting things things about Reiser4 from an end-user perspective was Hans Reisers plans for file metadata. From what I can find about btrfs, it currently doesn't even support normal extended attributes. There was also talk about making it easy for developers to extend the filesystem with plugins that could add e.g. compression schemes. I can't really recognize anything from Hans Reiser's ramblings in the btrfs documentation that isn't standard file system improvements already seen in e.g. ZFS. does anyone have any specific examples of the ZFS-leapfrogging features referred to?
That looks very nice! I was looking at some similar stuff recently. There's an older app with some of the same gestures, called Teddy, (video here), which was further developed to Smoothteddy.
Here's hoping these interfaces will be further developed and reach mainstream, and that they will help artists that are good at drawing but bad at extruding, uv-mapping, etc. create some cool stuff.
Well, somewhat. The N82 I'm using at the moment go straight to the log by pressing the dial key, for instance. The default menu layout admittedly looks like someone swallowed all the icons and puked them up again, but it's all customizable, so it didn't take long to rearrange it so I can get to anywhere I ever need to go with three button presses, and to the stuff I use 90% of the time with just one. Anyway, I said they were traditionally the leader, I didn't say they were good. Oh, wait, I did say 'easy to use'... I guess that should be 'relatively easy to use'.
As an aside, that's a very cool link in your sig. I had the idea of doing something like that just five hours ago. I never told anyone about it, and I never wrote it down. Your spies clearly work with great efficiency and speed.:)
Wait, what? Shouldn't Team Nokia/Ericsson/Scandinavia/Symbian be in there somewhere? I'd consider Nokia to be the traditional leader in usability, making snappy, easy to use and feature rich smart phones of high build quality. You consider them out of the game because they haven't released their touch phone yet?
I guess we could consider both Nokia's and Apple's treatment of developers a ringing endorsement of their competitors, though... I'm hoping this whole Android business will force Nokia to be less reluctant towards open source... They'll pay it lip service, but good luck flashing your firmware or doing real Symbian application development without a Windows box, you have to register everywhere to download apps that phone home, and having to sign everything is a PITA. It's not as bad as the iPhone, but there's a definite feeling that the chip belongs to Nokia and not to you, and you have to crack the OS to really get at the 'good bits'.
Back to WM, its user interface is IMO horrible, but I actually consider it the best phone for developers at this point, and judging by the large number of applications available compared to the relatively small user base, so do many other developers. Moore will see to that the ridiculous hardware requirements will become less of a problem over time. Microsoft isn't going to throw in the towel, and you'd be a fool to count them out.
The nervous one at this point would be Google. The only thing the Android platform has going for it at this point is the Google brand name. It could very easily be a flop, and I'd say it's a year or two too early to consider them anything like a 'big player' in the phone market.
Meh, I suppose things are different in a country where it makes sense to talk about your carrier's handset offerings. Heheh, iPhone, Brave New World indeed...
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I'd recommend 4-space indents for Python, it's what the standard library uses, and what anyone who wants to use something 'standard', like any large project, will be using as well. One reason the tab/space things isn't a problem is that the language comes with a clear recommendation. I still use tabs for everything else, so I've added to my.vimrc: autocmd FileType python set et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4
The plan is to mass produce them, eventually. I expect that if they do find a way to manufacture these cheaply, other projects will want to manufacture their own discs, esp. with stuff like Wikipedia. It would be nice if they became popular with publishers and the like. Having a couple of these around is good, but having a more heterogeneous collection of high-density durable information repositories scattered around would be priceless.
And as a fan of dystopian future scenarios, the very idea of future primitives occasionally happening across these valuable information artifacts as they rummage through ruins for scrap metal makes me all warm and fuzzy. In fact, I'm slightly miffed that they can hold so damn much information. This way we'll never have a gatherer returning to his village with a small shiny globe, that upon inspection turns out to be an artifact of the ancients that reveals the schematics for building a more powerful coil gun, which gives them an edge in fending off the attacks of the neighbouring tribes. Having the best of Wikipedia, or maybe the archives of a couple of good research journals is much more helpful and versatile of course, but not nearly as romantic.;-)
I actually thought the story in Dreamfall was told rather more coherently that TLJ. With large questions left unanswered, and clearly leading up to a sequel, yes, (half of the game is, as you say, missing,) but what they showed you was fairly interesting and fleshed out. Now for all I know they'll proceed to pull a Fahrenheit on the story, but I'll certainly try to get around to checking out the next game when it comes.
Article says 300,000, a bit more than the average fruit fly You can do a lot with quite few neurons, too. You don't really need to 'parse' the input, just simple fuzzy logic, something like "if we're close to a wall in one direction, swing to the other." Using even 3,000 neurons to do what you could do by hardwiring a couple of resistors from the prox. sensors to the wheel engines would be a criminal waste. Ever played Bug Brain, BTW? Wicked fun!
It is thought that they may have been in contact with each other. Sadly, we don't know what they said, because we don't have the technology to read the protocol, and even if we had, we still couldn't break the encryption.
I believe it is fairly common in many colder areas to have electric outlets at almost every public parking space, since you can't start your car in the winter without a engine pre-heater. While early adopters will most likely be the ones with their own garage, if the delta between electricity and oil prices continues to follow the current trend, demand should soon rise enough that there will be money in setting up charging stations, perhaps with some sort of subscription. So while the current lack of infrastructure may delay the introduction of electric vehicles by years in some areas, I foresee a natural progression which will result in either a majority of city-dwellers eventually having access to designated outtakes for vehicle charging, or 30s drive-in rechargers with enough throughput that visiting them once a day on your commute won't be a problem. Proper standards for charging will of course help greatly.
There's a middle ground, you know. What if I just don't want my user's passwords flying unencrypted over the wireless when people log in to my BBS?
Seeing how the majority of users will use the same password for everything given the chance, everyone benefits by having less unencrypted traffic flying around, even for simple hobbyist pages where the owner don't want to shell out cash.
I'm not aware of any way to get just the encryption without the certification hassle. I think you'd see encryption used a lot more uniformly on the common web if browsers wouldn't raise a scare to your users when you self sign.
Why the hell would they link to PC World, anyway? Popular Mechanics has a video, The Register has a entertaining writeup, and SRI's site has pictures, a diagram and some specs. All PC World has is tons of ads.
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I don't see that Opera has done anything particularly protest-worthy here. Maintaining proxies to circumvent oppressive regimes' firewalls, admirable as it might be, is not in my default expectations of a browser company, and I can't help but notice that neither the Mozilla Project, Microsoft or Apple provide such a service, leaving you with few places to turn if you're going to boycott everyone who isn't in the trenches fighting the CPC.
It's regrettable that the government of China chose to operate this way, but Opera merely chose to follow the local law by restricting access to a service, much as every search engine of note has done, in China, Germany, the US and elsewhere.
If we as a society really don't want to economically aid a state employing political censorship, we should stop pussy-footing around and enact a proper embargo. Yeah, that won't happen.
I differentiate between not actively resisting, and actively aiding, though. If, for instance, Opera released the internet browsing history of individuals on request, that'd be a serious breach of trust in my eyes, and I'd do my part to name and shame.
From their diagram, which admittedly could be made up of equal parts ignorance and guesswork, it looks like they're envisioning it used as a universal breakout cable.
Though if we could at least get so far that the choice was between IE with the Chrome plugin and IE with the Flash plugin...
But of course, I'm sure the IE team has already done the responsible thing and told their friends and family to stay the hell away from that shit.
Cute, but railguns require a conducting projectile. Maybe you could try a coil gun.
Basically, Linus' main role in Linux has been to initiate the project.
And manage it, that's huge. He still has the final say on any code that goes into the main line. Any serious kernel developer will have to at least tolerate him, which shapes the direction of Linux immensely.
Well, to be fair, while clearly not as pristine an art form as games with the direct involvement of the peruser they command, there have been movies made that may be said to possess some degree of artistic merit.
While not what Nintendo is doing here, a movie that you can optionally interact with isn't per se a bad idea.
Introduction to Algorithms isn't a bad read, and is likely to be the textbook used for any courses you take on the subject.
For everything else, there's Knuth.
Huh. One of the interesting things things about Reiser4 from an end-user perspective was Hans Reisers plans for file metadata. From what I can find about btrfs, it currently doesn't even support normal extended attributes. There was also talk about making it easy for developers to extend the filesystem with plugins that could add e.g. compression schemes.
I can't really recognize anything from Hans Reiser's ramblings in the btrfs documentation that isn't standard file system improvements already seen in e.g. ZFS. does anyone have any specific examples of the ZFS-leapfrogging features referred to?
That looks very nice!
I was looking at some similar stuff recently. There's an older app with some of the same gestures, called Teddy, (video here), which was further developed to Smoothteddy.
Here's hoping these interfaces will be further developed and reach mainstream, and that they will help artists that are good at drawing but bad at extruding, uv-mapping, etc. create some cool stuff.
Well, somewhat. The N82 I'm using at the moment go straight to the log by pressing the dial key, for instance. The default menu layout admittedly looks like someone swallowed all the icons and puked them up again, but it's all customizable, so it didn't take long to rearrange it so I can get to anywhere I ever need to go with three button presses, and to the stuff I use 90% of the time with just one.
Anyway, I said they were traditionally the leader, I didn't say they were good. Oh, wait, I did say 'easy to use'... I guess that should be 'relatively easy to use'.
As an aside, that's a very cool link in your sig. I had the idea of doing something like that just five hours ago. I never told anyone about it, and I never wrote it down. Your spies clearly work with great efficiency and speed. :)
Wait, what? Shouldn't Team Nokia/Ericsson/Scandinavia/Symbian be in there somewhere? I'd consider Nokia to be the traditional leader in usability, making snappy, easy to use and feature rich smart phones of high build quality. You consider them out of the game because they haven't released their touch phone yet?
I guess we could consider both Nokia's and Apple's treatment of developers a ringing endorsement of their competitors, though...
I'm hoping this whole Android business will force Nokia to be less reluctant towards open source... They'll pay it lip service, but good luck flashing your firmware or doing real Symbian application development without a Windows box, you have to register everywhere to download apps that phone home, and having to sign everything is a PITA. It's not as bad as the iPhone, but there's a definite feeling that the chip belongs to Nokia and not to you, and you have to crack the OS to really get at the 'good bits'.
Back to WM, its user interface is IMO horrible, but I actually consider it the best phone for developers at this point, and judging by the large number of applications available compared to the relatively small user base, so do many other developers. Moore will see to that the ridiculous hardware requirements will become less of a problem over time. Microsoft isn't going to throw in the towel, and you'd be a fool to count them out.
The nervous one at this point would be Google. The only thing the Android platform has going for it at this point is the Google brand name. It could very easily be a flop, and I'd say it's a year or two too early to consider them anything like a 'big player' in the phone market.
Meh, I suppose things are different in a country where it makes sense to talk about your carrier's handset offerings. Heheh, iPhone, Brave New World indeed...
I'd recommend 4-space indents for Python, it's what the standard library uses, and what anyone who wants to use something 'standard', like any large project, will be using as well. One reason the tab/space things isn't a problem is that the language comes with a clear recommendation. .vimrc:
I still use tabs for everything else, so I've added to my
autocmd FileType python set et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4
The plan is to mass produce them, eventually. I expect that if they do find a way to manufacture these cheaply, other projects will want to manufacture their own discs, esp. with stuff like Wikipedia. It would be nice if they became popular with publishers and the like. Having a couple of these around is good, but having a more heterogeneous collection of high-density durable information repositories scattered around would be priceless.
And as a fan of dystopian future scenarios, the very idea of future primitives occasionally happening across these valuable information artifacts as they rummage through ruins for scrap metal makes me all warm and fuzzy. In fact, I'm slightly miffed that they can hold so damn much information. This way we'll never have a gatherer returning to his village with a small shiny globe, that upon inspection turns out to be an artifact of the ancients that reveals the schematics for building a more powerful coil gun, which gives them an edge in fending off the attacks of the neighbouring tribes. Having the best of Wikipedia, or maybe the archives of a couple of good research journals is much more helpful and versatile of course, but not nearly as romantic. ;-)
I don't think the charges would stick, unless you're a minor.
I actually thought the story in Dreamfall was told rather more coherently that TLJ. With large questions left unanswered, and clearly leading up to a sequel, yes, (half of the game is, as you say, missing,) but what they showed you was fairly interesting and fleshed out. Now for all I know they'll proceed to pull a Fahrenheit on the story, but I'll certainly try to get around to checking out the next game when it comes.
Here's a post addressing this on lwn:
http://lwn.net/Articles/272973/
Article says 300,000, a bit more than the average fruit fly
You can do a lot with quite few neurons, too. You don't really need to 'parse' the input, just simple fuzzy logic, something like "if we're close to a wall in one direction, swing to the other." Using even 3,000 neurons to do what you could do by hardwiring a couple of resistors from the prox. sensors to the wheel engines would be a criminal waste.
Ever played Bug Brain, BTW? Wicked fun!
Sure, as soon as they find a way to work around the time skew problems caused by quantum whitespace collapse.
It is thought that they may have been in contact with each other. Sadly, we don't know what they said, because we don't have the technology to read the protocol, and even if we had, we still couldn't break the encryption.
I believe it is fairly common in many colder areas to have electric outlets at almost every public parking space, since you can't start your car in the winter without a engine pre-heater.
While early adopters will most likely be the ones with their own garage, if the delta between electricity and oil prices continues to follow the current trend, demand should soon rise enough that there will be money in setting up charging stations, perhaps with some sort of subscription.
So while the current lack of infrastructure may delay the introduction of electric vehicles by years in some areas, I foresee a natural progression which will result in either a majority of city-dwellers eventually having access to designated outtakes for vehicle charging, or 30s drive-in rechargers with enough throughput that visiting them once a day on your commute won't be a problem.
Proper standards for charging will of course help greatly.
There's a middle ground, you know. What if I just don't want my user's passwords flying unencrypted over the wireless when people log in to my BBS?
Seeing how the majority of users will use the same password for everything given the chance, everyone benefits by having less unencrypted traffic flying around, even for simple hobbyist pages where the owner don't want to shell out cash.
I'm not aware of any way to get just the encryption without the certification hassle. I think you'd see encryption used a lot more uniformly on the common web if browsers wouldn't raise a scare to your users when you self sign.
They wanted to, but then they'd have to suffer all the bad jokes about quantum physics being bamboozling.
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Why the hell would they link to PC World, anyway? Popular Mechanics has a video, The Register has a entertaining writeup, and SRI's site has pictures, a diagram and some specs. All PC World has is tons of ads.