I like to fill in the blanks with my imagination. I hate overzealous exposition.
I am not saying that I dislike story development or lore, but I do not need or want everything spoonfed to me.
We could learn a thing or two about capitalism from the Russians.
We are retiring our fleet and will be hitching rides on Russian shuttles over the next 4 years. While I do think private and commercial space flight will play a major role in future space flight, I think NASA Is a bit optimistic in thinking that we'll have private rockets in place by 2015. I suspect we'll still be riding on Russian shuttles well past 2015.
Then Opera is in the lead at version 11
Of the major browsers, only IE and Opera should legitimately have high version numbers due to how long they've been around. I know Firefox comes from Netscape stock, but Firefox is a different beast than Netscape.
I do understand Firefox not wanting to look like they are behind due to their version number being small, but I'd have more respect and understanding if they went to a different versioning scheme altogether instead of inflating minor releases with major version numbers.
Yeah, I personally don't like the major version number scheme used in this way, especially if there are going to be three or more versions of Firefox per year. I am old-fashioned and prefer the X.Y.Z approach. I could maybe see a YYYY.X approach, such as 2011.1, 2011.2, 2011.3, etc. that would track major versions per year.
I never realized how close the new Firefox 4 was to Chrome with respect to the UI until I downloaded and installed Chrome the other day. Firefox seems to be hellbent on ripping off Chrome.
I used to get my SSL certs through Verisign or Thawte, who were quite expensive and required a truckload of paperwork to prove your identity to them when being issued a SSL certificate. This was years ago, so they may be more lax these days for all I know.
I jumped to Comodo several years back because they were cheaper and had a lot less paperwork hassle. Generally I could get SSL certs more quickly through them than I could through Verisign or Thawte.
I then managed enough SSL certs to get in to OpenSRS and I could issue SSL certs immediately with no paperwork whatsoever. I believe the small print in OpenSRS shifts the burden to you, not Comodo, to prove the identity of the organization requesting the SSL certificate. All my clients were local businesses and were easy enough for me to verify.
Long story short, is that there are numerous ways around the identity verification schemes when obtaining SSL certificates. Perhaps with these recent SSL incidents the registration authorities and SSL issuers will start going back to the old days of putting people through the meatgrinder when trying to obtain SSL certificates. It may be inconvenient, but I think we've gotten to the point where the scales are tipped way too far in convenience's factor to the detriment of security and verification.
What is wrong with simply reading the odometer? Read the odometer when renewing auto tags each year. Granted, tag expirations are staggered throughout the year so people won't all have their odometers read in December (end of year). Still, even if you made a separate trip to the DMV to have the odometer read it'd likely be more cost effective (for both the government and for drivers) than installing metering devices in cars.
To me, it just smells like an excuse to get tracking devices installed in everybody's cars.
One of the best features in modern cars are stereo controls on the steering wheel. I never look down at the stereo as my thumb fiddles through the stations or iterates over a MP3 CD.
Also, I have to give Toyota some credit in the Camry interior design. When I first bought my Camry I thought their clock placement was really odd and stupid. I thought, "Why is the clock so far forward in the dash by the windshield?! It doesn't seem natural". Well, it turns out I was just used to other cars with the clock down in the center console. I now see the beauty of the clock placement in the Camry because I can glance at the time with my eyes still mostly on the road.
You may call him a has been, but how many current astronauts were inspired by shows like Star Trek?
You could also call James Doohan a has-been actor, but that man inspired so many people, such as myself, to go in to engineering. RIP Scotty.
Honestly, has anybody actually said, "Man I wish I could browse the internet without the URL bar!"?
I wasn't happy when Chrome decided to drop the "http://" from the URLs in the URL bar. Perhaps I am a bit OCD, but I like having the protocol specified in the URL. Most browsers don't require you to enter "http://" and assume you mean "http://" if you omit it, but they always display it. I can see a future where we use more protocols for different media and data and the last thing we need to do is to remove the notion of protocols from people's mentalities.
The removal of the URL bar is a step too far in dumbing-down the interface. In this day and age of phishing attacks and other scam-related shenanigans, I'd like to see a clear and visible readout of what site I am browsing or what data I am accessing.
I know a lot of end-users aren't the brightest bunch, but this is dumbing-down things too far and reeks of a solution in search of a problem... or is a solution to condition us for some long-term plan Google has to wall us off in their garden.
Thankfully we still have Firefox and Opera as choices and both of those browsers allow customization. Google doesn't seem too keen on allowing customization in Chrome.
Schools are one step closer to becoming prisons.
I do not condone truancy, but I cringe when I hear of solutions such as tracking students by GPS. Not only does it treat students like prisoners, but it conditions the students to accept such tracking as acceptable and they will grow up not seeing an issue with the government wanting to track them and control them.
I don't know what is the best way to combat truancy, but there has to be a less invasive way. Fine the parents for unexcused truancy, since the sole reason schools want better attendance is to get more state monies since it is often tied to daily attendance. Sure the parents may not pay, but I'd rather the solution be something to encourage parents to make sure their kids go to school rather than have big brother stepping in to do it for the parents.
What is more likely is that the top 5 companies like Google (search, youtube, docs), Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and eBay secretly support two-tier internet because they can afford it and it'd hurt their competition and further hinder any upstarts from taking their places.
That is like saying you write a NET 1.1 app and the standard changes to where only.NET CLR 3.5 is utilized. You cannot guarantee that because your app worked perfectly during the.NET 1.1 era that it will obviously be flawless in the.NET 3.5 era. Let's apply the same logic to Acid3. Let's remove the version and just say, "does it render Acid??", where Acid is a constantly moving target.
There has to be some way for developers to manually specify its target platform or renderer, and only moving to the latest standard AFTER they have thoroughly tested it.
Especially in the world of web sites and web apps, downtime is pretty much a major no no. You can't go to your boss and say, "Well, it worked 3 weeks ago, I guess they must have changed the living standard on us. Sorry."
I can't speak for all developers, but I need concrete targets to test feature sets. If you need to release more features more quickly, then start rolling out minor versions (HTML 5.2) or even go with the HTML X.Y.Z versioning scheme to add another layer of release intervals.
Even if you remove all version information, the developer community will find a way to differentiate milestones of the living standard and come up with their own versioning scheme and ways of detecting "versions". That is, unless, there is no way to utilize older revisions and you must always use the most up-to-date revision. That will simply lead to a very broken web.
Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Microsoft didn't nosedive when Bill left. In fact, Windows 7 is a great product and Microsoft is doing fine.
If Steve Jobs were smart he'd hand pick his successor and start touting him up and building the new person as the face of Apple so that when Steve jobs step down it won't obliterate the stock. Apple is a very image-driven company and Steve is the central pillar of that image.
I am not a fan of Macs, but the man initially bankrolled Pixar and was smart enough to stay out of their way.
I also can respect that he turned around Apple Computer and thanks to that we have more choice in desktop and mobile devices now.
it is one thing to ban all traffic, and another to ban certain classes of vehicles. Granted, I guess that is already done with restrictions on 18-wheelers and other commercial vehicles.
Heavy smug clouds are developing over Paris.
Seriously though, isn't the pollution just move upstream when it comes to electric cars? Or have there been recent improvements in that regard?
In theory funding schools based on performance may be a good idea, but in practice it does a disservice to students.
School administrations have become like corporate management, where they only care about next quarter's performance and not care or think about the long-term picture. They just want their returns, bonuses, profits.
Students more and more are being taught to beat the standardized tests rather than the actual subject matter.
My wife is a university professor and she is starting to see some of these same pressures being applied to state universities. It is only a matter of time before public universities fall victim to the same disease unless we change course as a society.
With regards to calculators, I do not see problems with calculators AS LONG AS the students show all the intermediate steps on paper. I used calculators for math in highschool, but if I didn't show every step of the solution then I'd lose major points. Calculators were used as a tool to verify your work, not a tool to do the work for you. Things may be different now and showing the work may no longer be necessary and students can just let their calculators do all the work for them. It would not surprise me.
The problem with an Alien prequel is that somehow humans will be involved, which will make little or no sense at all. That was one of my beefs with the AvP movies.
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I like to fill in the blanks with my imagination. I hate overzealous exposition. I am not saying that I dislike story development or lore, but I do not need or want everything spoonfed to me.
I have been pretty happy with SharpDevelop for C# development.
Does it mean we can rename LibreOffice to OpenOffice now? Or are the two forks going to continue separate lines of development?
We could learn a thing or two about capitalism from the Russians. We are retiring our fleet and will be hitching rides on Russian shuttles over the next 4 years. While I do think private and commercial space flight will play a major role in future space flight, I think NASA Is a bit optimistic in thinking that we'll have private rockets in place by 2015. I suspect we'll still be riding on Russian shuttles well past 2015.
Then Opera is in the lead at version 11 Of the major browsers, only IE and Opera should legitimately have high version numbers due to how long they've been around. I know Firefox comes from Netscape stock, but Firefox is a different beast than Netscape. I do understand Firefox not wanting to look like they are behind due to their version number being small, but I'd have more respect and understanding if they went to a different versioning scheme altogether instead of inflating minor releases with major version numbers.
Yeah, I personally don't like the major version number scheme used in this way, especially if there are going to be three or more versions of Firefox per year. I am old-fashioned and prefer the X.Y.Z approach. I could maybe see a YYYY.X approach, such as 2011.1, 2011.2, 2011.3, etc. that would track major versions per year. I never realized how close the new Firefox 4 was to Chrome with respect to the UI until I downloaded and installed Chrome the other day. Firefox seems to be hellbent on ripping off Chrome.
I used to get my SSL certs through Verisign or Thawte, who were quite expensive and required a truckload of paperwork to prove your identity to them when being issued a SSL certificate. This was years ago, so they may be more lax these days for all I know. I jumped to Comodo several years back because they were cheaper and had a lot less paperwork hassle. Generally I could get SSL certs more quickly through them than I could through Verisign or Thawte. I then managed enough SSL certs to get in to OpenSRS and I could issue SSL certs immediately with no paperwork whatsoever. I believe the small print in OpenSRS shifts the burden to you, not Comodo, to prove the identity of the organization requesting the SSL certificate. All my clients were local businesses and were easy enough for me to verify. Long story short, is that there are numerous ways around the identity verification schemes when obtaining SSL certificates. Perhaps with these recent SSL incidents the registration authorities and SSL issuers will start going back to the old days of putting people through the meatgrinder when trying to obtain SSL certificates. It may be inconvenient, but I think we've gotten to the point where the scales are tipped way too far in convenience's factor to the detriment of security and verification.
What is wrong with simply reading the odometer? Read the odometer when renewing auto tags each year. Granted, tag expirations are staggered throughout the year so people won't all have their odometers read in December (end of year). Still, even if you made a separate trip to the DMV to have the odometer read it'd likely be more cost effective (for both the government and for drivers) than installing metering devices in cars. To me, it just smells like an excuse to get tracking devices installed in everybody's cars.
One of the best features in modern cars are stereo controls on the steering wheel. I never look down at the stereo as my thumb fiddles through the stations or iterates over a MP3 CD. Also, I have to give Toyota some credit in the Camry interior design. When I first bought my Camry I thought their clock placement was really odd and stupid. I thought, "Why is the clock so far forward in the dash by the windshield?! It doesn't seem natural". Well, it turns out I was just used to other cars with the clock down in the center console. I now see the beauty of the clock placement in the Camry because I can glance at the time with my eyes still mostly on the road.
You may call him a has been, but how many current astronauts were inspired by shows like Star Trek? You could also call James Doohan a has-been actor, but that man inspired so many people, such as myself, to go in to engineering. RIP Scotty.
C++ Templates will turn the most pious programmer into a curse-slinging, chain-smoking alcoholic.
Honestly, has anybody actually said, "Man I wish I could browse the internet without the URL bar!"? I wasn't happy when Chrome decided to drop the "http://" from the URLs in the URL bar. Perhaps I am a bit OCD, but I like having the protocol specified in the URL. Most browsers don't require you to enter "http://" and assume you mean "http://" if you omit it, but they always display it. I can see a future where we use more protocols for different media and data and the last thing we need to do is to remove the notion of protocols from people's mentalities. The removal of the URL bar is a step too far in dumbing-down the interface. In this day and age of phishing attacks and other scam-related shenanigans, I'd like to see a clear and visible readout of what site I am browsing or what data I am accessing. I know a lot of end-users aren't the brightest bunch, but this is dumbing-down things too far and reeks of a solution in search of a problem ... or is a solution to condition us for some long-term plan Google has to wall us off in their garden.
Thankfully we still have Firefox and Opera as choices and both of those browsers allow customization. Google doesn't seem too keen on allowing customization in Chrome.
Schools are one step closer to becoming prisons. I do not condone truancy, but I cringe when I hear of solutions such as tracking students by GPS. Not only does it treat students like prisoners, but it conditions the students to accept such tracking as acceptable and they will grow up not seeing an issue with the government wanting to track them and control them. I don't know what is the best way to combat truancy, but there has to be a less invasive way. Fine the parents for unexcused truancy, since the sole reason schools want better attendance is to get more state monies since it is often tied to daily attendance. Sure the parents may not pay, but I'd rather the solution be something to encourage parents to make sure their kids go to school rather than have big brother stepping in to do it for the parents.
Let's be honest, though. Nokia makes solid, reliable cellphone hardware, but their smartphone OS software isn't cutting it.
What is more likely is that the top 5 companies like Google (search, youtube, docs), Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and eBay secretly support two-tier internet because they can afford it and it'd hurt their competition and further hinder any upstarts from taking their places.
That is like saying you write a NET 1.1 app and the standard changes to where only .NET CLR 3.5 is utilized. You cannot guarantee that because your app worked perfectly during the .NET 1.1 era that it will obviously be flawless in the .NET 3.5 era. Let's apply the same logic to Acid3. Let's remove the version and just say, "does it render Acid??", where Acid is a constantly moving target.
There has to be some way for developers to manually specify its target platform or renderer, and only moving to the latest standard AFTER they have thoroughly tested it.
Especially in the world of web sites and web apps, downtime is pretty much a major no no. You can't go to your boss and say, "Well, it worked 3 weeks ago, I guess they must have changed the living standard on us. Sorry."
I can't speak for all developers, but I need concrete targets to test feature sets. If you need to release more features more quickly, then start rolling out minor versions (HTML 5.2) or even go with the HTML X.Y.Z versioning scheme to add another layer of release intervals. Even if you remove all version information, the developer community will find a way to differentiate milestones of the living standard and come up with their own versioning scheme and ways of detecting "versions". That is, unless, there is no way to utilize older revisions and you must always use the most up-to-date revision. That will simply lead to a very broken web.
Bill Gates and Microsoft. Microsoft didn't nosedive when Bill left. In fact, Windows 7 is a great product and Microsoft is doing fine. If Steve Jobs were smart he'd hand pick his successor and start touting him up and building the new person as the face of Apple so that when Steve jobs step down it won't obliterate the stock. Apple is a very image-driven company and Steve is the central pillar of that image.
I am not a fan of Macs, but the man initially bankrolled Pixar and was smart enough to stay out of their way. I also can respect that he turned around Apple Computer and thanks to that we have more choice in desktop and mobile devices now.
it is one thing to ban all traffic, and another to ban certain classes of vehicles. Granted, I guess that is already done with restrictions on 18-wheelers and other commercial vehicles.
Heavy smug clouds are developing over Paris. Seriously though, isn't the pollution just move upstream when it comes to electric cars? Or have there been recent improvements in that regard?
In theory funding schools based on performance may be a good idea, but in practice it does a disservice to students. School administrations have become like corporate management, where they only care about next quarter's performance and not care or think about the long-term picture. They just want their returns, bonuses, profits. Students more and more are being taught to beat the standardized tests rather than the actual subject matter. My wife is a university professor and she is starting to see some of these same pressures being applied to state universities. It is only a matter of time before public universities fall victim to the same disease unless we change course as a society. With regards to calculators, I do not see problems with calculators AS LONG AS the students show all the intermediate steps on paper. I used calculators for math in highschool, but if I didn't show every step of the solution then I'd lose major points. Calculators were used as a tool to verify your work, not a tool to do the work for you. Things may be different now and showing the work may no longer be necessary and students can just let their calculators do all the work for them. It would not surprise me.
Wendy Carlos did an excellent job composing the score for the original Tron. I felt her music fit that movie perfectly.
The problem with an Alien prequel is that somehow humans will be involved, which will make little or no sense at all. That was one of my beefs with the AvP movies.
I'm sure ISPs will be happy to remove the porn block ... for a fee. Basically turning porn on the internet into a premium service.