Hardly true. Unless you're talking of really low level stuff(ie pre-university), most of the time you find yourself with teachers doing exams extremely biased to what they said and not the actual subject.
This means you can be smart, and know the subject fairly well but find yourself not getting good grades because you did not explain it the way the teacher repeated it in class.
Alternatively, it is quite obvious to anyone who actually went to school that those leading their classes are rarely the smartest, but those that worked their ass off.
Intelligence certainly does not give you academic success.
Is it?
At least for me, most of the work I do I learned out of school.
School I only did to get diplomas and degrees to get the job in the first place.
It's not so much education anymore as just a way to prove you're smart enough to matter.(and even that part is not so true, since dumb overachievers will do better than lazy smart people most of the time)
something as simple as placing the file menu on the same bar as my address bar.(yes I know there are some custom buttons to do something similar, but it's hardly the same since they don't behave like a menu)
Also, it is true that jemalloc(the memory allocator) of firefox is quite broken under linux.
It is however quite good under windows, and there are very few leaks from firefox itself nowadays. Most leaks come from non-updated extensions/a couple known culprits(see firebug/video download helper/menu editor, and a couple others)
I think that the problem is actually that the higher firefox devs. seem to be focused on looking like chrome/opera... and keep on introducing new features that break the rest of the browser.
People don't move to chrome because of the ui(well okay, some do, most I know didn't), they moved because it was faster and less buggy.
What firefox needs is optimization/cleaning, not new features.
I will personally stay with the fox until chrome or opera allow for both real gui modification(which both opera and chrome lack) and extensions(chrome has that, or at least starting to pick up).v
Uh... What about if you want your box to do good 802.11n? That's faster than 100FE.
Considering the OP talks of a router to replace his wrt54GL one can safely assume he intends to use wifi devices. And reasonably one can expect ether devices too, possibly on GbE. So sure internet<->router requiring GbE is rare, but device<-GbE ether->router<-wifi->device is hardly uncommon.
Between apple and sony, the world seems to be going towards lawyer locking of everything as fast as possible.
I'm not sure about other people, but that sanitized future world is kind of really depressing.
Next step is you'll have to spend all your digital money to the 4 big corporations that control and enforce each of their platforms integrity in totalitarian ways.
News... that only come from a couple big media agencies.
Games... that check permanently online they're unmodified, and require trusted platforms banning any form of liberty/homebrew.
Videos&Music... that only come out in DRM form with you-are-only-renting-from-us terms.
Internet connections... where you can only do what the isp deems safe.
etc...
Nice troll there. I think YOU have never coded anything complex and graphical in js. I have and it's anything but a nice experience.
Flash is also pretty atrocious, but it has a lot more tools that make it decently usable.
If there's one issue it's whether web content SHOULD have that kind of piece of software embedded.
It seems people are forgetting a lot.
It's not "Flash VS HTML5 Video" it's "Flash Video vs HTML5 Video"...
There is a LOT more to flash than just playing videos.
The thing is that regardless of what most people say, HTML5(with js canvas, css, etc) is hardly convenient to code many things that flash does really well. Currently we only have a couple gizmos and proof of concept games/apps in js... There are thousands of well made apps that work really fine in flash doing all of that.
I personally think that while flash is certainly not ideal, it is serving a purpose that html5 can not fill easily.(And unlike what people think, the flash vm is actually quite fast and efficient)
Obviously for presentation stuff or video, I will agree flash should go away(and probably will).
(Exception set aside of really artistic & filled-with-transitions artistic websites, with little content, where it's fine)
Amusingly I was IT there... and we did not really make a car:)
Really is too bad since we had a pretty good team, but just had some issues with project management.
All the better then.
As I am curious, can a jetpack extension run a background timer independent of any window(as long as the application is running)?
Can a jetpack extension modify chrome elements and behaviours?
If neither of those are true, I don't see what's the point of jetpack, compared to greasemonkey, pardon my ignorance.
Is it just supposed to become a sort of official greasemonkey?
Jetpack is pretty much an attempt at making firefox extensions greasemonkey scripts that hold no actual application power. They were talking of removing normal extension support for that fake sugary stuff. Plus the idea that normal people will be making quick extensions is just ridiculous. Making a normal ff extension is not that hard, it's all quite documented and you can take any simple extension as base template if scared...
Is what this article is about.
This matter has been known for a long time, and there's a reason why so many softwares ignore it:
it hardly matters. That and it's also way more complicated to do it properly.
Gain / Pain is clearly inferior to 1 there.
Bluehost, 1 and 1, dreamhost, and other oversellers: don't use those. unless you're really really cheap. I've tried quite a few and while 90% of customers will be happy, you don't want to be in the 10% that suffer. It'll be painful, they'll either wipe your data, blackmail you to upgrade, or just kill your processes. Pair networks: their web hosting is on the expensive side, but is of fairly high quality. Be careful though that they do not like cpu-time consuming scripts and will disable those, though they are not in any way as brutal as previous cited hosts. All in all recommended if you want good service
VPS
That is my recommendation for a small to mid website, if you can actually manage a server.
I have so far have a very good experience with both tektonic and knownhost, both of which have provided a pretty good service.
Slicehost has become of more variable quality to me lately, so I would not recommend them.
Oh and I would not recommend at all amazon ec2 unless you have a lot of money and rather large distributed system, at which point you will want to do it yourself anyway.
I checked the prices of ebooks, and as far as I am concerned, I am finding those prices outrageous.
I do respect the right of authors to make some money, but when an ebook is twice as expensive as a cheap paperback version, there's something highly wrong.
All of that makes me think they actually are trying to kill the ebook market, where "they" means publishers. Amazon of course is not clean either, and they obviously have been taking advantage of their public policy to look like saviors, that they are not.
tldr: ebooks are way too expensive. Anything above 3-4$ for an old book or 4-8$ for a novelty is just plain insane. It's not like they require a lot of infrastructure. Oh and of course the author should still get most of the money in that grand scheme. But I doubt it's the case.
Am I the only to think that if a project doesn't get a grip at all it's MAYBE because it is not that useful to people? In my experience, projects do benefit from a community boost, but 90% of the work is still having a useful application that people desire.
Which is exactly why extensions are a good thing. They unload a large burden from application developers to leave petty/specific stuff to other people.
You might want to open eyes and see I'm faaaaaaaar from being the only person that finds opera very lacking on the extensibility.
Unless of course you have eyeblinds put on.
It has always bugged me that opera devs. always focus on benchmark numbers when their browser is already acclaimed for being more than fast enough.
What about ACTUAL features that users have been begging for, for 5 or 6 versions.
Like a decent extension framework.(this is probably something they must have some sort of magical curse to not do, since they're ignoring people since the beginning)
Like a lot more control over ui customization.(try getting the menu next to your buttons so as not to waste a full row, and no, fake menus made of buttons do not behave like menus)
Like type as you find?(or did they finally add that one?)
Features wise, opera only seems to like adding stuff pertinent to a select few, and ignore the rest of the world.
It's just a browser that needs to get out of the dark age of control-is-security.
And by the way, let's jump to conclusion, blame the chinese, after all, they love eating dogs who poop a lot, and that has to produce a lot of methane! Also as we all know, since 2000 all of china got big cars, and huge freezers, and use 250L of water per day.
It's also a known fact that since the advent of fuzzy computers, scientists have been able to run models so good they can predict climatic trends on a century basis. Now I even know where to be for my 50th birthday to see snow.(the last snow on earth apparently, because by then it'll be so hot even the poles will look like hell)
I find it very amusing that people keep on trying to push xml & xslt when that will not work properly at all, and make things horribly more complex(anyone who has actually tried putting up an xml+xslt system, whether client or server would know) for a large majority of the users.
There's nothing wrong about distributing data sets with pdf, especially considering that unlike what has been said in that article, most pdfs can be indexed and searched.(unless specifically stripped down/oddly transformed)
As for flash, it obviously depends on the use.
Flash as a medium to distribute web animated and interactive content does not really have any competitors that are worth mentioning. The question in that case would be more whether there's a need to do that level of interacting or not. Doing javascript, css and html/xhtml solutions ends up being major trouble and take a massive amount of time.
I would personally say that flash with an accessible html back end(or similar) is perfectly fine: if you can make things look and act better for many people without alienating others, why not do it?
The whole debate is imho wrongly aimed at the openness of formats, rather than what actually matters: "will it work good for the overwhelming majority?" and "can it reasonably made?"
The question I'm now wondering is where to find this material in raw form... From what I'm seeing it's way more efficient than the usual easy-to-find non-newtonian fluids. Would make some great material to use in various DIY situations.
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I think people in the USA with a brain will be able to grasp kelvin/Celsius fine... The others don't need to be reading this.
Hardly true. Unless you're talking of really low level stuff(ie pre-university), most of the time you find yourself with teachers doing exams extremely biased to what they said and not the actual subject.
This means you can be smart, and know the subject fairly well but find yourself not getting good grades because you did not explain it the way the teacher repeated it in class.
Alternatively, it is quite obvious to anyone who actually went to school that those leading their classes are rarely the smartest, but those that worked their ass off.
Intelligence certainly does not give you academic success.
Is it? At least for me, most of the work I do I learned out of school. School I only did to get diplomas and degrees to get the job in the first place. It's not so much education anymore as just a way to prove you're smart enough to matter.(and even that part is not so true, since dumb overachievers will do better than lazy smart people most of the time)
Wait... So a $400 camera attached to fiber optics worth $5k... I think there's a slight misconception of what is the costy part of the system.
something as simple as placing the file menu on the same bar as my address bar.(yes I know there are some custom buttons to do something similar, but it's hardly the same since they don't behave like a menu)
Also, it is true that jemalloc(the memory allocator) of firefox is quite broken under linux. It is however quite good under windows, and there are very few leaks from firefox itself nowadays. Most leaks come from non-updated extensions/a couple known culprits(see firebug/video download helper/menu editor, and a couple others)
I think that the problem is actually that the higher firefox devs. seem to be focused on looking like chrome/opera... and keep on introducing new features that break the rest of the browser.
People don't move to chrome because of the ui(well okay, some do, most I know didn't), they moved because it was faster and less buggy.
What firefox needs is optimization/cleaning, not new features.
I will personally stay with the fox until chrome or opera allow for both real gui modification(which both opera and chrome lack) and extensions(chrome has that, or at least starting to pick up).v
Uh... What about if you want your box to do good 802.11n? That's faster than 100FE. Considering the OP talks of a router to replace his wrt54GL one can safely assume he intends to use wifi devices. And reasonably one can expect ether devices too, possibly on GbE. So sure internet<->router requiring GbE is rare, but device<-GbE ether->router<-wifi->device is hardly uncommon.
Between apple and sony, the world seems to be going towards lawyer locking of everything as fast as possible.
I'm not sure about other people, but that sanitized future world is kind of really depressing.
Next step is you'll have to spend all your digital money to the 4 big corporations that control and enforce each of their platforms integrity in totalitarian ways.
News... that only come from a couple big media agencies.
Games... that check permanently online they're unmodified, and require trusted platforms banning any form of liberty/homebrew.
Videos&Music... that only come out in DRM form with you-are-only-renting-from-us terms.
Internet connections... where you can only do what the isp deems safe.
etc...
Nice troll there. I think YOU have never coded anything complex and graphical in js. I have and it's anything but a nice experience.
Flash is also pretty atrocious, but it has a lot more tools that make it decently usable.
If there's one issue it's whether web content SHOULD have that kind of piece of software embedded.
It seems people are forgetting a lot.
It's not "Flash VS HTML5 Video" it's "Flash Video vs HTML5 Video"...
There is a LOT more to flash than just playing videos.
The thing is that regardless of what most people say, HTML5(with js canvas, css, etc) is hardly convenient to code many things that flash does really well. Currently we only have a couple gizmos and proof of concept games/apps in js... There are thousands of well made apps that work really fine in flash doing all of that.
I personally think that while flash is certainly not ideal, it is serving a purpose that html5 can not fill easily.(And unlike what people think, the flash vm is actually quite fast and efficient)
Obviously for presentation stuff or video, I will agree flash should go away(and probably will).
(Exception set aside of really artistic & filled-with-transitions artistic websites, with little content, where it's fine)
Amusingly I was IT there... and we did not really make a car:)
Really is too bad since we had a pretty good team, but just had some issues with project management.
All the better then.
As I am curious, can a jetpack extension run a background timer independent of any window(as long as the application is running)?
Can a jetpack extension modify chrome elements and behaviours?
If neither of those are true, I don't see what's the point of jetpack, compared to greasemonkey, pardon my ignorance.
Is it just supposed to become a sort of official greasemonkey?
Jetpack is pretty much an attempt at making firefox extensions greasemonkey scripts that hold no actual application power. They were talking of removing normal extension support for that fake sugary stuff. Plus the idea that normal people will be making quick extensions is just ridiculous. Making a normal ff extension is not that hard, it's all quite documented and you can take any simple extension as base template if scared...
Is what this article is about.
This matter has been known for a long time, and there's a reason why so many softwares ignore it:
it hardly matters. That and it's also way more complicated to do it properly.
Gain / Pain is clearly inferior to 1 there.
Web hosts
Bluehost, 1 and 1, dreamhost, and other oversellers: don't use those. unless you're really really cheap. I've tried quite a few and while 90% of customers will be happy, you don't want to be in the 10% that suffer. It'll be painful, they'll either wipe your data, blackmail you to upgrade, or just kill your processes.
Pair networks: their web hosting is on the expensive side, but is of fairly high quality. Be careful though that they do not like cpu-time consuming scripts and will disable those, though they are not in any way as brutal as previous cited hosts. All in all recommended if you want good service
VPS
That is my recommendation for a small to mid website, if you can actually manage a server.
I have so far have a very good experience with both tektonic and knownhost, both of which have provided a pretty good service.
Slicehost has become of more variable quality to me lately, so I would not recommend them.
Oh and I would not recommend at all amazon ec2 unless you have a lot of money and rather large distributed system, at which point you will want to do it yourself anyway.
I checked the prices of ebooks, and as far as I am concerned, I am finding those prices outrageous.
I do respect the right of authors to make some money, but when an ebook is twice as expensive as a cheap paperback version, there's something highly wrong.
All of that makes me think they actually are trying to kill the ebook market, where "they" means publishers. Amazon of course is not clean either, and they obviously have been taking advantage of their public policy to look like saviors, that they are not.
tldr: ebooks are way too expensive. Anything above 3-4$ for an old book or 4-8$ for a novelty is just plain insane. It's not like they require a lot of infrastructure. Oh and of course the author should still get most of the money in that grand scheme. But I doubt it's the case.
Am I the only to think that if a project doesn't get a grip at all it's MAYBE because it is not that useful to people? In my experience, projects do benefit from a community boost, but 90% of the work is still having a useful application that people desire.
Which is exactly why extensions are a good thing. They unload a large burden from application developers to leave petty/specific stuff to other people.
That's nice to hear. I would expect find instances to be unified but that works fine too.
You might want to open eyes and see I'm faaaaaaaar from being the only person that finds opera very lacking on the extensibility. Unless of course you have eyeblinds put on.
It has always bugged me that opera devs. always focus on benchmark numbers when their browser is already acclaimed for being more than fast enough. What about ACTUAL features that users have been begging for, for 5 or 6 versions. Like a decent extension framework.(this is probably something they must have some sort of magical curse to not do, since they're ignoring people since the beginning) Like a lot more control over ui customization.(try getting the menu next to your buttons so as not to waste a full row, and no, fake menus made of buttons do not behave like menus)
Like type as you find?(or did they finally add that one?)
Features wise, opera only seems to like adding stuff pertinent to a select few, and ignore the rest of the world.
It's just a browser that needs to get out of the dark age of control-is-security.
And by the way, let's jump to conclusion, blame the chinese, after all, they love eating dogs who poop a lot, and that has to produce a lot of methane! Also as we all know, since 2000 all of china got big cars, and huge freezers, and use 250L of water per day.
It's also a known fact that since the advent of fuzzy computers, scientists have been able to run models so good they can predict climatic trends on a century basis. Now I even know where to be for my 50th birthday to see snow.(the last snow on earth apparently, because by then it'll be so hot even the poles will look like hell)
I find it very amusing that people keep on trying to push xml & xslt when that will not work properly at all, and make things horribly more complex(anyone who has actually tried putting up an xml+xslt system, whether client or server would know) for a large majority of the users.
There's nothing wrong about distributing data sets with pdf, especially considering that unlike what has been said in that article, most pdfs can be indexed and searched.(unless specifically stripped down/oddly transformed)
As for flash, it obviously depends on the use. Flash as a medium to distribute web animated and interactive content does not really have any competitors that are worth mentioning. The question in that case would be more whether there's a need to do that level of interacting or not. Doing javascript, css and html/xhtml solutions ends up being major trouble and take a massive amount of time. I would personally say that flash with an accessible html back end(or similar) is perfectly fine: if you can make things look and act better for many people without alienating others, why not do it? The whole debate is imho wrongly aimed at the openness of formats, rather than what actually matters: "will it work good for the overwhelming majority?" and "can it reasonably made?"
The question I'm now wondering is where to find this material in raw form... From what I'm seeing it's way more efficient than the usual easy-to-find non-newtonian fluids. Would make some great material to use in various DIY situations.