Anyone who has spent time working in a lab knows that not all data is equal. You can get useless results if something isn't quite as clean as necessary, or perhaps you were in a bit of a rush and didn't connect everything perfectly. Any interesting experiment usually has numerous points at which humans can mess things up. Errant data is usually a sign that you have improperly set up the experiment, so you'll spend most of your times reviewing and fixing procedures until you get what you expected.
I would think that in this day and age of LED stoplights... why not just have a Yellow Countdown? Living in NYC, it's the most damned annoying thing that they tinker with the yellow light length from damn near light-to-light. Yellow only helps you navigate an intersection if you have some idea of how long it is. Having a yellow countdown would be a non-ambiguous sign to drivers and should be damn well required if they're gonna go to the trouble of installing cameras.
Indeed, this is why I've always wondered why we don't instead look to Venus as our next step. It is extremely similar to Earth in mass (and thus gravity) and already has an atmosphere. Also, ideally research going into figuring out how to undo its runaway greenhouse effect could be put to use here on earth as well.
Exactly! Wasn't Wikipedia created because the over-edited Nupedia didn't work out? Wasn't the idea, the thing so radical that everyone thought it would fall apart, that it should be completely and utterly open? People used to and still do complain, it's complete anarchy and would/will never work. But it has, and it's grown because of it's openness. Now, they keep implementing more editorial control, introducing more bureaucracy - which could be a big source of decay. Perhaps a shakeup and throwing off of its chains would invigorate Wikipedia? The unencumbered freedom is the thing that grew Wikipedia to where it is today, why suddenly do we need editorial control? It ain't broke, so don't go fixing it, I see here what happens in every community. You get people that want to be in control and they start organizing a hierarchy and pretty soon everything decays. Don't let Wikipedia succumb to another pointless internet power squabble!
Really, I'm completely and utterly tired of this attitude. First off, can we please dispense with "in this post 9/11 world". If I here that phrase one more time I'm going to stab someone in the eye with a ballpoint pen. September 11, 2001 was probably the scariest day of my life, thinking "How much of the city are they going to take out?" "Are my friends okay?" It was a tragedy.
The only difference between September 10, 2001 and September 11 is our paranoia level. Terrorism was not invented on that day, thousands of extremists didn't suddenly say "Oh, you know this terrorism thing might just work!" it wasn't even the first time Extremist Islamic Terrorists attacked the US. An LED sign of a cartoon character is just as harmless today as it was over five years ago. Just because everyone has this irrational fear of terrorism doesn't change that fact. I've seen the signs. They were LED boards. The only place you really could of packed explosives was... the battery pack? Which was used to light the damn thing! No, this is nothing more than officials trying to pass the buck. So instead of officials fessing up for a mistake, they are blaming the advertisers, cartoon network. For what? The most you could slap them with is unwanted advertising. Since when has a CEO resigned because someone plastered a sign on a private wall? This is paranoia, plain and simple
Another phrase I hate. "[If you think/do/say such-and-such]... the terrorists have already won." I'm going to be a hypocrite here and use it. On September 11, 2001, the US was defeated by terrorism. Using the definition of terrorism as that of an act of violence intended to cause fear for political goals, then it was entirely successful. People have become to horribly terrified it's ridiculous. I don't have to beat a dead horse by listing the results of America's fears. At the risk of ending this on too political a note; giving up everything out of fear has historically not gone over very well. Feudalism, Fascism, Police States - all created because people would rather give up everything in the name of safety.
The internet is obviously changing our society quicker and in more sweeping ways than we all realize, given that so many people's reaction to witnessing this exchange is one of apathy.
That's not a problem! We'll just use our phasers to drill through the crust, then we can send Data down to set up plasma injection units. It should keep the core molten for centuries!
Meh. As a web developer, I'm more anxious for the release of Firefox 3.0. Firefox 2 uses the same rendering engine as 1.5, they just wanted to compete with IE 7. Bah!
I want a new Gecko!
This is actually *gasp* the sort of DRM I could live with. A unique fingerprint that is traceable to the original buyer, so that they can find you if you pirate. But it doesn't actually hinder fair use at all. I really wouldn't mind if this became standard practice, as it only affects those who are actually doing something illegal, and leaves the rest of us alone. W00t technological, instead of legal, solutions to problems.
No. Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0 use the same underlying Gecko rendering engine (Gecko 1.8 IIR). Gecko 1.9 brings many rendering improvements that Web Developer's would love, but they didn't use it. The reasoning the Firefox developers gave was that resynching Firefox with the new Gecko engine would take too long; they wanted to focus on features and have a new release ready to compete with IE 7.
Are you kidding? They've got his Noodliness behind them! Already you can see his mystical appendages everywhere, working His will. Think about it...
Al Gore is a well known politician.
Al Gore recently did a documentary on global warming.
Everyone knows that as pirates decrease in number, the average global temperature increases.
Now the Pirate Party has formed.
What happens next is obvious. Al Gore will join the pirate party, thus increasing the number of pirates exponentially. With the great influx of pirates behind him, the global temperature will drop, solving global warming! Al Gore and the Pirate Party will whip our IP laws into shape and then invent the music industry. It's genious!
I think the big problem in web development, is that there's a much different mindset from other programmers. I'll admit to it, I first got into computers by making webpages, and doing some Javascript work. The way web developers think and work is much different from how, say, a C developer would work.
In C if you have a syntax error, your code won't compile. You must fix it. With HTML/CSS, if you have invalid syntax it won't get fixed because some sort of hacky browser behaviour might compensate. There is no impetus to fix anything. Javascript errors are all over the place. When I open up Firefox's JS Console to work on a web app, it's filled with countless errors from many websites, many mainstream websites.
How a webpage is developed is a lot different as well. Webpages are hacked together, haphazardly. Little thought or concern goes into the elements and attributes used. C developers (and other programmers) are so concerned with code as to have design patterns. There are no Javascript design patterns. Few care that it is better to use to emphasize text than to throw in a to italicize it.
I have to say, when I started programming, it was quite the leap.
Okay, first reading it I thought that AOL actually had the audacity to charge maillist senders per email so that the email wouldn't get junked. But reading the article, it seems they are talking about enabling links and images when viewing an email (which a user can do manually).
But still, the idea that they would do this (An Email Tarrif almost) is ridiculous. All under the guise of "protecting users from spam". Puh-lease.
Ahh, yeah, and the record hurricane season. When have we run out of names, and then gone into season-overtime?
Oh my God! The record number of hurricanes, which was set around 70 years ago or so and only accounts for at most close to 100 years out of the thousands and thousands of years of climate in North America (while people were around) that we have no information on was broken. Imagine!
Nearly a week of record highs in Texas, wildfires, etc..
Surely, you're not saying that the southern US is experiencing long periods of heat?! What? AND SEASONAL WILDFIRES?
Is it me, or do I detect the far-off hum of 10,000,000,000,000 locusts!?
Clearly the end is near. Do you think when say, the record was set back in the 1930's or so, that is was the sign of the end of times? While some might have claimed it, clearly we're alive. We're really working with too small a data set to be making long scale, global climate trend predictions. Not based off of our current weather conditions, anyway.
When 2/3 of the current food-producing land in the world no longer can produce food...
I'm sorry, but honestly, where did you get that number? You make up a scary-sounding number and get modded interesting. If I went around saying that 2/3 of the women in the world are dieing to sleep with me, people would call me a loon. (Har, har). But talk about enviromental disasters and people gobble up every word.
The money comes from individual donations. Shocking as it may be, there's no secret agenda to it, there are a large amount of individual donations, helped by advertising revenues, Mozilla merchandise sales, and deals like that made with Google, in which they get paid to have Google as the default search engine for the search bar. It all ads up really, and the growth increases these revenue sources. Not to mention they have enough left over to pay software engineers, hosting fees, and management. But advertising is critical to their growth, which is critical to their existance.
With the end result that we get a high quality, free browser. Not a bad system, eh?
Am I the last sane person on the planet that thinks that a business should actually attempt to make a profit (or *any* kind of income)? Who's paying for this, and are they just doing it for fun? Honestly, what's the point of marketing to give away a free product?
Mozilla is an Open-Source foundation. So I guess your same questions could be applied to any open source application. Why does anyone create open source applications? Why make a product if you don't want people to use it?
Not only that, but apparently, only Ajax creates Drag'n'Drop and drop down menus. You learn something new everyday! Here I thought that it was Javascript and CSS that did that.
The sad part of throwing buzzwords around is that people latch on to them and have no idea what they entail. "I want to use some ajax for my website. Do it." ??? Somebody just realized that they can use the XmlHttpRequest object and some server-side processing to save users from the need to refresh or load a whole new page. The rest of the visual goodies have nothing to do with Ajax, just some good old Javascript+CSS.
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Anyone who has spent time working in a lab knows that not all data is equal. You can get useless results if something isn't quite as clean as necessary, or perhaps you were in a bit of a rush and didn't connect everything perfectly. Any interesting experiment usually has numerous points at which humans can mess things up. Errant data is usually a sign that you have improperly set up the experiment, so you'll spend most of your times reviewing and fixing procedures until you get what you expected.
I would think that in this day and age of LED stoplights... why not just have a Yellow Countdown? Living in NYC, it's the most damned annoying thing that they tinker with the yellow light length from damn near light-to-light. Yellow only helps you navigate an intersection if you have some idea of how long it is. Having a yellow countdown would be a non-ambiguous sign to drivers and should be damn well required if they're gonna go to the trouble of installing cameras.
Same way government guards against a kid paying some adult a buck or two to buy it from a store clerk. It can't.
Counter-terrorism? Sociology? History? Middle-eastern studies?
Indeed, this is why I've always wondered why we don't instead look to Venus as our next step. It is extremely similar to Earth in mass (and thus gravity) and already has an atmosphere. Also, ideally research going into figuring out how to undo its runaway greenhouse effect could be put to use here on earth as well.
Exactly! Wasn't Wikipedia created because the over-edited Nupedia didn't work out? Wasn't the idea, the thing so radical that everyone thought it would fall apart, that it should be completely and utterly open? People used to and still do complain, it's complete anarchy and would/will never work. But it has, and it's grown because of it's openness. Now, they keep implementing more editorial control, introducing more bureaucracy - which could be a big source of decay. Perhaps a shakeup and throwing off of its chains would invigorate Wikipedia? The unencumbered freedom is the thing that grew Wikipedia to where it is today, why suddenly do we need editorial control? It ain't broke, so don't go fixing it, I see here what happens in every community. You get people that want to be in control and they start organizing a hierarchy and pretty soon everything decays. Don't let Wikipedia succumb to another pointless internet power squabble!
Really, I'm completely and utterly tired of this attitude. First off, can we please dispense with "in this post 9/11 world". If I here that phrase one more time I'm going to stab someone in the eye with a ballpoint pen. September 11, 2001 was probably the scariest day of my life, thinking "How much of the city are they going to take out?" "Are my friends okay?" It was a tragedy.
The only difference between September 10, 2001 and September 11 is our paranoia level. Terrorism was not invented on that day, thousands of extremists didn't suddenly say "Oh, you know this terrorism thing might just work!" it wasn't even the first time Extremist Islamic Terrorists attacked the US. An LED sign of a cartoon character is just as harmless today as it was over five years ago. Just because everyone has this irrational fear of terrorism doesn't change that fact. I've seen the signs. They were LED boards. The only place you really could of packed explosives was... the battery pack? Which was used to light the damn thing! No, this is nothing more than officials trying to pass the buck. So instead of officials fessing up for a mistake, they are blaming the advertisers, cartoon network. For what? The most you could slap them with is unwanted advertising. Since when has a CEO resigned because someone plastered a sign on a private wall? This is paranoia, plain and simple
Another phrase I hate. "[If you think/do/say such-and-such]... the terrorists have already won." I'm going to be a hypocrite here and use it. On September 11, 2001, the US was defeated by terrorism. Using the definition of terrorism as that of an act of violence intended to cause fear for political goals, then it was entirely successful. People have become to horribly terrified it's ridiculous. I don't have to beat a dead horse by listing the results of America's fears. At the risk of ending this on too political a note; giving up everything out of fear has historically not gone over very well. Feudalism, Fascism, Police States - all created because people would rather give up everything in the name of safety.
The internet is obviously changing our society quicker and in more sweeping ways than we all realize, given that so many people's reaction to witnessing this exchange is one of apathy.
That's not a problem! We'll just use our phasers to drill through the crust, then we can send Data down to set up plasma injection units. It should keep the core molten for centuries!
Meh. As a web developer, I'm more anxious for the release of Firefox 3.0. Firefox 2 uses the same rendering engine as 1.5, they just wanted to compete with IE 7. Bah! I want a new Gecko!
So then, they are recreating Nupedia?
Why is there no "-1 Wrong" moderation?
This is actually *gasp* the sort of DRM I could live with. A unique fingerprint that is traceable to the original buyer, so that they can find you if you pirate. But it doesn't actually hinder fair use at all. I really wouldn't mind if this became standard practice, as it only affects those who are actually doing something illegal, and leaves the rest of us alone. W00t technological, instead of legal, solutions to problems.
No. Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0 use the same underlying Gecko rendering engine (Gecko 1.8 IIR). Gecko 1.9 brings many rendering improvements that Web Developer's would love, but they didn't use it. The reasoning the Firefox developers gave was that resynching Firefox with the new Gecko engine would take too long; they wanted to focus on features and have a new release ready to compete with IE 7.
Are you kidding? They've got his Noodliness behind them! Already you can see his mystical appendages everywhere, working His will. Think about it...
Al Gore is a well known politician.Al Gore recently did a documentary on global warming.
Everyone knows that as pirates decrease in number, the average global temperature increases.
Now the Pirate Party has formed.
What happens next is obvious. Al Gore will join the pirate party, thus increasing the number of pirates exponentially. With the great influx of pirates behind him, the global temperature will drop, solving global warming! Al Gore and the Pirate Party will whip our IP laws into shape and then invent the music industry. It's genious!
I think the big problem in web development, is that there's a much different mindset from other programmers. I'll admit to it, I first got into computers by making webpages, and doing some Javascript work. The way web developers think and work is much different from how, say, a C developer would work. In C if you have a syntax error, your code won't compile. You must fix it. With HTML/CSS, if you have invalid syntax it won't get fixed because some sort of hacky browser behaviour might compensate. There is no impetus to fix anything. Javascript errors are all over the place. When I open up Firefox's JS Console to work on a web app, it's filled with countless errors from many websites, many mainstream websites. How a webpage is developed is a lot different as well. Webpages are hacked together, haphazardly. Little thought or concern goes into the elements and attributes used. C developers (and other programmers) are so concerned with code as to have design patterns. There are no Javascript design patterns. Few care that it is better to use to emphasize text than to throw in a to italicize it. I have to say, when I started programming, it was quite the leap.
Okay, first reading it I thought that AOL actually had the audacity to charge maillist senders per email so that the email wouldn't get junked. But reading the article, it seems they are talking about enabling links and images when viewing an email (which a user can do manually). But still, the idea that they would do this (An Email Tarrif almost) is ridiculous. All under the guise of "protecting users from spam". Puh-lease.
I'm sorry, but honestly, where did you get that number? You make up a scary-sounding number and get modded interesting. If I went around saying that 2/3 of the women in the world are dieing to sleep with me, people would call me a loon. (Har, har). But talk about enviromental disasters and people gobble up every word.
I love how parent is modded Insightful. O.o
Isn't that AOL?
Yes, finally, a story in which the not-as-big guy gets to squash the little guy and his free speach without the biggest guy getting in the way!
The money comes from individual donations. Shocking as it may be, there's no secret agenda to it, there are a large amount of individual donations, helped by advertising revenues, Mozilla merchandise sales, and deals like that made with Google, in which they get paid to have Google as the default search engine for the search bar. It all ads up really, and the growth increases these revenue sources. Not to mention they have enough left over to pay software engineers, hosting fees, and management. But advertising is critical to their growth, which is critical to their existance.
With the end result that we get a high quality, free browser. Not a bad system, eh?
Mozilla is an Open-Source foundation. So I guess your same questions could be applied to any open source application. Why does anyone create open source applications? Why make a product if you don't want people to use it?
Not only that, but apparently, only Ajax creates Drag'n'Drop and drop down menus. You learn something new everyday! Here I thought that it was Javascript and CSS that did that.
The sad part of throwing buzzwords around is that people latch on to them and have no idea what they entail. "I want to use some ajax for my website. Do it." ??? Somebody just realized that they can use the XmlHttpRequest object and some server-side processing to save users from the need to refresh or load a whole new page. The rest of the visual goodies have nothing to do with Ajax, just some good old Javascript+CSS.