Great win for the contracting company. Big loss for everyone else.
Except, according to the article, the contracting company wanted to use a regular RDBMS, but the government insisted on MarkLogic, which is a NoSQL solution, not relational.
The cool thing about developing apps for this phone is that should be fairly simple for Mozilla to provide a compatibility wrapper for Android and iOS, so you get cross-phone app development.
There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)
I also often use more than one terminal window, but when you click on the terminal icon in the apps list, it just takes you back to the terminal you already have open.
Ctrl-Shift-n from terminal opens a new window. Ctrl-Shift-t opens a new tab, which I prefer.
For vitual desktops, I personally prefer a fixed layout... email and web browser in upper left, work vitrual computer in lower left, etc. The ever-changing dynamic list doesn't work well for me.
There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)
The worst is that I can't get it to behave right with my laptop and external monitor. Laptops today come with shitty short screens, so when I work at home, I keep the lid closed and just use my external monitor. Gnome3 can't seem to grasp this and always assumes the laptop's monitor is the primary monitor, so I can't reach the widgets, menus, etc. Sure, I can muck with the display settings to fix it during a session, but I have to do it all over again if I reboot or need to open the lid for some reason.
You just have to edit the file: ~/.config/monitors.xml
(Notice that this it's a "personal" config, so you have to do this inside of every acount you like this behaviour... That's why the ~/ wich means "my personal home dir").
where you can see an XML text detailing all displays configurations. Each one have a "primary" config line like this:
yes
Just put "yes" wherever you like to be your primary display and "no" in the other one(s)...
Why aren't the connections with card processors encrypted end-to-end with SSL/TLS? Then the wifi security, which is outside the card processors' hands, would be irrelevant, and the card numbers would not be exposed to internet routers either. This is the responsibility of the card processors IMO. Everyone knows you don't send credit card numbers over the internet without TLS.
Sure, there may be some grey areas as to exactly when copyright applies and the GPL comes into effect. But the real risk Android takes by operating in this area is that the copyright holders themselves will feel violated enough by their actions that they will spend the time and money to sue you with no clear-cut probability of winning. Are any Linux copyright holders feeling that violated by the Apache-licensed Android? Do they have enough resources to take on Google over a legal grey area?
The ISPs say they've never been approached by a content provider with a request to pay for priority transmission... Presumably the content providers have thought about it. Maybe it's just not worth spending the money on?
I think the system they're looking for is the single transferable vote. With cumulative voting, various interests have to figure out how many candidates they have the numbers to elect and then organize their voters ahead of the election. With STV, the system itself does this all for them and gives fair, proportional results.
Google will also allow some data and applications to be accessed offline. Users will be able to listen to music and read eBooks without an internet connection, for example, as well as accessing files stored on USB flash drives. Any application that supports HTML5's offline mode will also be accessible without a net connection.
This basically opens up multitudes of possibilities for offline apps. If you can plug in a USB flash drive, why not a USB hard drive? If you can store and listen to music offline, why not video? And if everything runs in the browser, it just means that the API is javascript. You can do a lot with javascript.
Also, being open source means that forks can add whatever regular linux functionality they want.
I'm interested in what they're doing with X11. Anyone looked at the code?
Reading this, it strikes me that news sites are just big blogging sites. No blogger would want their content hidden behind a paywall, and reporters are more and more just professional bloggers.
But there's another possible interpretation. Perhaps the particle's spin is completely determined – but depends on something else about the state of the universe. That would be like a player in "Twenty Questions" who has decided his object is a donkey whenever his opponent starts a question with "Is," and that his object a horse otherwise (or using any other arbitrary but consistent rule). For example, if his opponent asked, "Is it something with big ears?" he would say "yes," but if his opponent asked, "Does it have big ears?" he'd say "no." In that case, his answers are predetermined even though he has no single object in mind.
Doesn't this interpretation also apply to two entangled particles separated by a great distance? Couldn't they just be responding to measurements according to the same pre-determined algorithm in their basic nature, without there being any implication for the free will of the observers?
According to this announcement, license plate data in BC is purged every three months. Yes, in Canada we do have privacy laws. It may not be perfect privacy, but at least it's a consideration when they roll out these programs. The Springdale cops should at the very least do the same.
My favourite mind-expander is the Sleeping Beauty Problem.
We plan to put Beauty to sleep by chemical means, and then we'll flip a (fair) coin. If the coin lands Heads, we will awaken Beauty on Monday afternoon and interview her. If it lands Tails, we will awaken her Monday afternoon, interview her, put her back to sleep, and then awaken her again on Tuesday afternoon and interview her again.
The (each?) interview is to consist of the one question: what is your credence now for the proposition that our coin landed Heads?
When awakened (and during the interview) Beauty will not be able to tell which day it is, nor will she remember whether she has been awakened before.
She knows the above details of our experiment.
What credence should she state in answer to our question?
Some people think the answer is obviously 1/2, while others think it must be 1/3. Which is it?
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Great win for the contracting company. Big loss for everyone else.
Except, according to the article, the contracting company wanted to use a regular RDBMS, but the government insisted on MarkLogic, which is a NoSQL solution, not relational.
The cool thing about developing apps for this phone is that should be fairly simple for Mozilla to provide a compatibility wrapper for Android and iOS, so you get cross-phone app development.
There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)
This may be useful:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/12/static-workspaces/
I tried for a while to find a way to have a CPU and Network monitor like you could have it docked on a panel in gnome 2 but finally gave up.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/
I also often use more than one terminal window, but when you click on the terminal icon in the apps list, it just takes you back to the terminal you already have open.
Ctrl-Shift-n from terminal opens a new window. Ctrl-Shift-t opens a new tab, which I prefer.
For vitual desktops, I personally prefer a fixed layout... email and web browser in upper left, work vitrual computer in lower left, etc. The ever-changing dynamic list doesn't work well for me.
There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)
The worst is that I can't get it to behave right with my laptop and external monitor. Laptops today come with shitty short screens, so when I work at home, I keep the lid closed and just use my external monitor. Gnome3 can't seem to grasp this and always assumes the laptop's monitor is the primary monitor, so I can't reach the widgets, menus, etc. Sure, I can muck with the display settings to fix it during a session, but I have to do it all over again if I reboot or need to open the lid for some reason.
From http://rainhilltrials.blogspot.ca/2011/09/changing-primary-display-in-gnome-3.html:
Ah, I see it was probably stealing card numbers stored or entered into computers using keyloggers or other malware, so never mind the TLS.
Why aren't the connections with card processors encrypted end-to-end with SSL/TLS? Then the wifi security, which is outside the card processors' hands, would be irrelevant, and the card numbers would not be exposed to internet routers either. This is the responsibility of the card processors IMO. Everyone knows you don't send credit card numbers over the internet without TLS.
Sure, there may be some grey areas as to exactly when copyright applies and the GPL comes into effect. But the real risk Android takes by operating in this area is that the copyright holders themselves will feel violated enough by their actions that they will spend the time and money to sue you with no clear-cut probability of winning. Are any Linux copyright holders feeling that violated by the Apache-licensed Android? Do they have enough resources to take on Google over a legal grey area?
Another reason sites should enable HTTPS by default everywhere.
Kids don't weigh as much as adults, in general, so the quality of their furniture isn't as important. Also because they have so much fidgety energy.
The ISPs say they've never been approached by a content provider with a request to pay for priority transmission... Presumably the content providers have thought about it. Maybe it's just not worth spending the money on?
I think the system they're looking for is the single transferable vote. With cumulative voting, various interests have to figure out how many candidates they have the numbers to elect and then organize their voters ahead of the election. With STV, the system itself does this all for them and gives fair, proportional results.
Bwahahaha!!!
Google docs even lets you organize split files in a folder and share the whole lot together. Death to rapidshare!
This basically opens up multitudes of possibilities for offline apps. If you can plug in a USB flash drive, why not a USB hard drive? If you can store and listen to music offline, why not video? And if everything runs in the browser, it just means that the API is javascript. You can do a lot with javascript.
Also, being open source means that forks can add whatever regular linux functionality they want.
I'm interested in what they're doing with X11. Anyone looked at the code?
Reading this, it strikes me that news sites are just big blogging sites. No blogger would want their content hidden behind a paywall, and reporters are more and more just professional bloggers.
Doesn't this interpretation also apply to two entangled particles separated by a great distance? Couldn't they just be responding to measurements according to the same pre-determined algorithm in their basic nature, without there being any implication for the free will of the observers?
According to this announcement, license plate data in BC is purged every three months. Yes, in Canada we do have privacy laws. It may not be perfect privacy, but at least it's a consideration when they roll out these programs. The Springdale cops should at the very least do the same.
Some people think the answer is obviously 1/2, while others think it must be 1/3. Which is it?