I started using Chrome back in its beta version because of its process separation that prevented one bad tab from taking down the whole browser. The funny thing is, the browser was so stable that I rarely ever had a rogue tab fail on me in the first place. And while Firefox stepped up their game on speed, Chrome just seems to render faster (it could just be psychological). Also, Chrome's interface uses less real-estate and leaves more room for page content. While I also use Firefox on some machines, it's performance seems to suffer if I leave it open for too long. Yet I have left Chrome open for months and it feels just as snappy as when I first started it. And since I don't use many, if any, extensions, Chrome is a better fit for my needs.
Google will spend all of their time working on tracking users, Oracle will insist on integrating dozens of Oracle products costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and RedHat will rewrite the system while removing the capability of running it over a network.
But in all seriousness, the reason this web site is in shambles is because the developers weren't given nearly enough time to implement a product this complex. And if years of development wasn't enough time, the government thinks that a few big tech companies can fix the problem in a single month? Even the best engineers will require weeks to understand how the system currently works, several more weeks coming up with a plan to fix what's broken, and months to implement the solution. This just goes to show how drastically people underestimate the complexity of software development. I wish those engineers the best of luck - they're being set up for failure.
I'm not a fan of his movies nor do I subscribe to his fanboyism of Apple, but Ashton Kutcher follows technology more than any movie/tv star that I know of. I'm definitely curious to see how he pans out in this position.
Exactly! Frequency bands should be regulated at the municipal level. This way every city can have divide the spectrum however it feels is best. And it will boost the economy because you'll have to buy a new cell phone every time that you enter a new city that uses different portions of the spectrum.
With all of the issues Apple has had over their map software, I have to wonder if they're starting to regret trying to reinvent the wheel just to modestly distance themselves from Google.
The bill will require patent holders who are filing a suit to identify the specific products and claims which are being infringed
That will prevent the most egregious parts of patent racketeering, but there are still many cases where the patent(s) are disclosed and the real problem is that the patent was so broad that it should never have been granted in the first place.
require the loser in a suit to pay attorney's fees and costs
This could easily backfire, especially when patent trolls have an army of high-paid lawyers. Just the threat of having to pay millions of dollars for the plaintiff's legal fees means that you had better have some really good representation as well. And if you lose, you end up paying all of your own legal fees as well as the army of lawyers working for the patent troll. In most cases, it would just be cheaper to settle which actually strengthens the capabilities of patent troll racketeering.
has received bipartisan support and has a real chance of passing
That's what I thought about the bill that would have enabled stricter gun control laws since that had bipartisan support and overwhelming public support and yet that bill failed to get passed. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch.
You're also too busy to write the documentation because you're constantly putting out fires created by other developers who don't know any better because there's no documentation.
My boss always lets me pick my own deadlines as long as they are reasonable. It gives me the ability to estimate how long it will take to deliver at the level of quality I am known for. It also allows me to improve on my ability to estimate project scope. However, since I choose the deadline, I have no excuses if I fail to deliver on that date. Extensions will be given as long as there's a good reason, I let him know early enough, and as long as he knows that I'm not slacking off. This autonomy has provided the best environment I have experienced so far.
There have been occasions where life jackets have save lives, however it probably is marginal.
Yeah, when your plane has to make a water landing and you're drowning, you'll be comforted by the fact that your situation was marginal and the lack of a flotation device saved the airline a bit of money.
FFS, safety is rarely cost-effective. That's the reason we have a big, evil government: to force the big, evil corporations to have even basic safety devices and procedures, even though it forces prices to be slightly higher. This way, everyone lives another day to complain about the big, evil government.
Really? You mean hospitals don't use debt collectors anymore to try to collect on unpaid debts?
Debt collectors can't collect what the patients don't have. So the options are to offer them affordable private health care through the exchanges the ACA introduced or put them in debt for the rest of their lives when they need an emergency surgery. Although I guess they could always beg for help paying their bills in their Slashdot sig.
If you start off so wrong from the beginning... can we really trust anything else you've said?
He didn't start off wrong. And no, you can't just dismiss everything someone says, even if they did make a simple mistake. At least not if you want to be taken seriously by a group of intelligent people.
Until everyone else starts using that software and Oracle buys that company, jacks up the price, and drives the quality way down. You can't escape the destruction of the Oracle empire.
When contributing to an open source project you have to think that somewhere someone will look at the code you write and have the ability to publicly shame you if you do something truly stupid. Standing, respect, whatever you want to call it, is a big motivator for many people.
Written by someone who clearly values their reputation more than their bank account. I don't think Larry Ellison even realizes that people like you exist, let alone the fact that most of the best developers hold those same values.
They enjoyed the same 30-pin connector for nearly a decade (a decade!) while other handset makers changed their connector and chargers for every new handset.
Micro-USB has already been around for 6 years, more than half of a decade and will likely go at least a decade before being replaced. Also, I don't know what you're talking about with other handset makers changing their connectors "for every new handset". Most phones have used Micro-USB since it came out in 2007 (the same year as the original iPhone).
They will likely enjoy the clearly superior Lightning connector for another decade.
Superior is definitely a relative term. While the Lightning connector provides a modest benefit in that it is reversible, it also requires a processor in the cable for authentication. That makes the cable much more expensive as well as adds another component that can break, increasing the chances that you'll have to replace it. And I sure hope that the build quality is better than the original iPhone cable because that piece of junk was notorious for having its insulation bust open near the connector.
They don't care what Android is using or dream of having a compatible connector because they don't have an Android handset.
They might care as Apple's marketshare continues to shrink and it slowly becomes harder to find people that have spare iPhone cables when they need to find a cable to borrow.
It's uniformity for the sake of a pencil pusher's concept of uniformity - not for consumers.
There is absolutely value in having companies use open standards. Hell, the entire Internet wouldn't even be functional if it wasn't for open standards. The issue with standards is making sure that it meets all of the diverse needs of all involved parties. While that may be difficult, it is better to work with standards organizations than it is to be a maverick and consistently insist on using your own proprietary standards. Of course, there's a hell of a lot more money to be made by remaining proprietary and Apple users seem far too happy to buy into that proprietary system. Personally, I don't care if Apple continues to use proprietary cables as the only people it harms are their own users.
It has always amazed me how people who are diagnosed with ADHD manage to sit and play video games for hours on end. Yet for some reason, activities like listening to someone speak or learning a new subject seem like impossible tasks for them. This approach seems to make sense since it takes one of the few tasks these people seem to be able to focus on and uses it to rewire their brains to allow them to concentrate better on everyday activities.
Surely it's going to work. This is the cheapest way to get a lot of people to just resign without severance pay.
You hit the nail on the head. Of course, this strategy doesn't take into account the fact that most of the productive workers tend to know their worth and will jump ship while the less productive workers will cling on to their jobs for dear life. Chalk this up to another decision made for a short-term gain while setting the company up for long-term failure. That doesn't matter, though, because by the time the board catches on to the stupidity of this decision, Meg will have already cashed out and be on her way to doing the same thing at another company.
Contrast this to 2013, when the administration tells you to shut up, and you obey
I have never heard the current administration tell anyone to shut up or anything even close to that. Not only that, but I have heard a lot of other Democrats who have been very outspoken against the Fast and Furious program as well as other failures of the current administration, so I don't know who is mindlessly obeying these gag orders you're claiming exist.
How many of you have took to the streets about Fast and Furious, or Benghazi, or Syria, or anything that opposes your man in power?
I saw about as many Democrats in the streets over Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and Syria as I saw Republicans out in the streets over Free Speech Zones, the Patriot Act, and a costly and poorly justified war in Iraq.
User interfaces are also "actual technology", Linux die-hards gripes notwithstanding.
Perhaps, but a different kind of technology. FRAND patents covering radio communications require billions of dollars in research and development to push the envelope of how much data can be transmitted, how to transition from one tower to another in the middle of a phone call with no interruption, etc. I seriously doubt Apple's "R&D" on bounceback scrolling and slide to unlock is anywhere near the amount of money Samsung sunk into the technology of their FRAND patents. Besides, I'm pretty sure you could tolerate a lack of bounceback scrolling and slide to unlock on your phone, but would you tolerate the inability to make phone calls? If not, then the fact that interface patents are given higher priority in ITC bans as well as higher awards in courts is just plain fucked up.
Samsung didn't put its patents under FRAND because of the goodness of their hearts - it's because they get guaranteed royalties at a Fair and Reasonable rate from every participant with the standard. That's a nice income stream, provided they don't start being jerks about it and demanding unreasonable rates from people they don't like.
According to bullshit decisions like Obama's, apparently it's not as nice of an income stream as keeping the patents and technologies proprietary and leaving Apple to come up with their own technologies for transmitting phone calls. Samsung and the other victims of Apple lawsuits have to be considering this. After all of the lawsuits and attempts to ban their products, FRAND is starting to seem like much more of a liability than an asset.
That statement or its sentiments were also made during numerous speeches to the American people leading up to the Iraq War. And after the Patriot Act, it was clear that the government had more power than ever. What was unclear was how far they were willing to go to use that power to silence dissenters. That was a rational fear given that we already had "Free Speech Zones" prior to the Patriot Act that showed how much Bush cared for opinions differing from his own. While it turns out that his administration didn't use that power as much as I had feared, just the threat of that power was enough to force me to self-censor most of my political statements or to preempt any dissenting political views with qualifiers that made it clear that I was not inciting any threats. It was the first time in my life that I feared an over-reaching government and it has definitely stuck with me.
That's interesting, but it doesn't explain why these cables worked perfectly when I was using the binary AMD drivers for the card. I wanted to switch to the open source drivers because the proprietary ones were atrocious. The open source drivers did work well for what was supported, but for some reason they didn't like the DVI-HDMI cables. In any event, it's not that important since I upgraded my hardware and now use the Haswell integrated graphics which are fantastic for my non-gaming purposes.
What country did you live in before 2009? As one of the people who opposed the Bush administration, we were told by that administration that if we did not agree with them, we were no better than the terrorists ("If you're not with us, you're against us!"). This scared all of the reporters who had tough questions about the Iraq War to keep their mouths shut or only ask softball questions. I was told by supporters of the administration that "This is America! If you don't like it, then leave!". And your 1984 reference about changing stories in mid-stream could best be applied to the number of rationales for going to Iraq - by the end of the war, I had lost count. Look, I'm not going to defend Obama because I have not been impressed with him by any means, but don't act like being against the government is suddenly unfashionable. It is always going to be fashionable to be against the government among your peers when your party is not in power and it is always going to be unfashionable to be against the government among your peers when your party is not in power.
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I started using Chrome back in its beta version because of its process separation that prevented one bad tab from taking down the whole browser. The funny thing is, the browser was so stable that I rarely ever had a rogue tab fail on me in the first place. And while Firefox stepped up their game on speed, Chrome just seems to render faster (it could just be psychological). Also, Chrome's interface uses less real-estate and leaves more room for page content. While I also use Firefox on some machines, it's performance seems to suffer if I leave it open for too long. Yet I have left Chrome open for months and it feels just as snappy as when I first started it. And since I don't use many, if any, extensions, Chrome is a better fit for my needs.
I see this argument all the time and I find it hard to believe that the people making these claims don't have a Facebook account.
Google will spend all of their time working on tracking users, Oracle will insist on integrating dozens of Oracle products costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and RedHat will rewrite the system while removing the capability of running it over a network.
But in all seriousness, the reason this web site is in shambles is because the developers weren't given nearly enough time to implement a product this complex. And if years of development wasn't enough time, the government thinks that a few big tech companies can fix the problem in a single month? Even the best engineers will require weeks to understand how the system currently works, several more weeks coming up with a plan to fix what's broken, and months to implement the solution. This just goes to show how drastically people underestimate the complexity of software development. I wish those engineers the best of luck - they're being set up for failure.
I'm not a fan of his movies nor do I subscribe to his fanboyism of Apple, but Ashton Kutcher follows technology more than any movie/tv star that I know of. I'm definitely curious to see how he pans out in this position.
Holy Shit! Slashdot grew a forehead?!
Exactly! Frequency bands should be regulated at the municipal level. This way every city can have divide the spectrum however it feels is best. And it will boost the economy because you'll have to buy a new cell phone every time that you enter a new city that uses different portions of the spectrum.
With all of the issues Apple has had over their map software, I have to wonder if they're starting to regret trying to reinvent the wheel just to modestly distance themselves from Google.
That will prevent the most egregious parts of patent racketeering, but there are still many cases where the patent(s) are disclosed and the real problem is that the patent was so broad that it should never have been granted in the first place.
This could easily backfire, especially when patent trolls have an army of high-paid lawyers. Just the threat of having to pay millions of dollars for the plaintiff's legal fees means that you had better have some really good representation as well. And if you lose, you end up paying all of your own legal fees as well as the army of lawyers working for the patent troll. In most cases, it would just be cheaper to settle which actually strengthens the capabilities of patent troll racketeering.
That's what I thought about the bill that would have enabled stricter gun control laws since that had bipartisan support and overwhelming public support and yet that bill failed to get passed. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch.
You're also too busy to write the documentation because you're constantly putting out fires created by other developers who don't know any better because there's no documentation.
My boss always lets me pick my own deadlines as long as they are reasonable. It gives me the ability to estimate how long it will take to deliver at the level of quality I am known for. It also allows me to improve on my ability to estimate project scope. However, since I choose the deadline, I have no excuses if I fail to deliver on that date. Extensions will be given as long as there's a good reason, I let him know early enough, and as long as he knows that I'm not slacking off. This autonomy has provided the best environment I have experienced so far.
Yeah, when your plane has to make a water landing and you're drowning, you'll be comforted by the fact that your situation was marginal and the lack of a flotation device saved the airline a bit of money.
FFS, safety is rarely cost-effective. That's the reason we have a big, evil government: to force the big, evil corporations to have even basic safety devices and procedures, even though it forces prices to be slightly higher. This way, everyone lives another day to complain about the big, evil government.
Debt collectors can't collect what the patients don't have. So the options are to offer them affordable private health care through the exchanges the ACA introduced or put them in debt for the rest of their lives when they need an emergency surgery. Although I guess they could always beg for help paying their bills in their Slashdot sig.
He didn't start off wrong. And no, you can't just dismiss everything someone says, even if they did make a simple mistake. At least not if you want to be taken seriously by a group of intelligent people.
Until everyone else starts using that software and Oracle buys that company, jacks up the price, and drives the quality way down. You can't escape the destruction of the Oracle empire.
Written by someone who clearly values their reputation more than their bank account. I don't think Larry Ellison even realizes that people like you exist, let alone the fact that most of the best developers hold those same values.
Micro-USB has already been around for 6 years, more than half of a decade and will likely go at least a decade before being replaced. Also, I don't know what you're talking about with other handset makers changing their connectors "for every new handset". Most phones have used Micro-USB since it came out in 2007 (the same year as the original iPhone).
Superior is definitely a relative term. While the Lightning connector provides a modest benefit in that it is reversible, it also requires a processor in the cable for authentication. That makes the cable much more expensive as well as adds another component that can break, increasing the chances that you'll have to replace it. And I sure hope that the build quality is better than the original iPhone cable because that piece of junk was notorious for having its insulation bust open near the connector.
They might care as Apple's marketshare continues to shrink and it slowly becomes harder to find people that have spare iPhone cables when they need to find a cable to borrow.
There is absolutely value in having companies use open standards. Hell, the entire Internet wouldn't even be functional if it wasn't for open standards. The issue with standards is making sure that it meets all of the diverse needs of all involved parties. While that may be difficult, it is better to work with standards organizations than it is to be a maverick and consistently insist on using your own proprietary standards. Of course, there's a hell of a lot more money to be made by remaining proprietary and Apple users seem far too happy to buy into that proprietary system. Personally, I don't care if Apple continues to use proprietary cables as the only people it harms are their own users.
It has always amazed me how people who are diagnosed with ADHD manage to sit and play video games for hours on end. Yet for some reason, activities like listening to someone speak or learning a new subject seem like impossible tasks for them. This approach seems to make sense since it takes one of the few tasks these people seem to be able to focus on and uses it to rewire their brains to allow them to concentrate better on everyday activities.
That sounds a whole lot like the concept of time. By that definition, every instant is a catastrophic collapse.
That's why I run all my tasks as root!
You hit the nail on the head. Of course, this strategy doesn't take into account the fact that most of the productive workers tend to know their worth and will jump ship while the less productive workers will cling on to their jobs for dear life. Chalk this up to another decision made for a short-term gain while setting the company up for long-term failure. That doesn't matter, though, because by the time the board catches on to the stupidity of this decision, Meg will have already cashed out and be on her way to doing the same thing at another company.
I have never heard the current administration tell anyone to shut up or anything even close to that. Not only that, but I have heard a lot of other Democrats who have been very outspoken against the Fast and Furious program as well as other failures of the current administration, so I don't know who is mindlessly obeying these gag orders you're claiming exist.
I saw about as many Democrats in the streets over Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and Syria as I saw Republicans out in the streets over Free Speech Zones, the Patriot Act, and a costly and poorly justified war in Iraq.
Perhaps, but a different kind of technology. FRAND patents covering radio communications require billions of dollars in research and development to push the envelope of how much data can be transmitted, how to transition from one tower to another in the middle of a phone call with no interruption, etc. I seriously doubt Apple's "R&D" on bounceback scrolling and slide to unlock is anywhere near the amount of money Samsung sunk into the technology of their FRAND patents. Besides, I'm pretty sure you could tolerate a lack of bounceback scrolling and slide to unlock on your phone, but would you tolerate the inability to make phone calls? If not, then the fact that interface patents are given higher priority in ITC bans as well as higher awards in courts is just plain fucked up.
According to bullshit decisions like Obama's, apparently it's not as nice of an income stream as keeping the patents and technologies proprietary and leaving Apple to come up with their own technologies for transmitting phone calls. Samsung and the other victims of Apple lawsuits have to be considering this. After all of the lawsuits and attempts to ban their products, FRAND is starting to seem like much more of a liability than an asset.
That statement or its sentiments were also made during numerous speeches to the American people leading up to the Iraq War. And after the Patriot Act, it was clear that the government had more power than ever. What was unclear was how far they were willing to go to use that power to silence dissenters. That was a rational fear given that we already had "Free Speech Zones" prior to the Patriot Act that showed how much Bush cared for opinions differing from his own. While it turns out that his administration didn't use that power as much as I had feared, just the threat of that power was enough to force me to self-censor most of my political statements or to preempt any dissenting political views with qualifiers that made it clear that I was not inciting any threats. It was the first time in my life that I feared an over-reaching government and it has definitely stuck with me.
That's interesting, but it doesn't explain why these cables worked perfectly when I was using the binary AMD drivers for the card. I wanted to switch to the open source drivers because the proprietary ones were atrocious. The open source drivers did work well for what was supported, but for some reason they didn't like the DVI-HDMI cables. In any event, it's not that important since I upgraded my hardware and now use the Haswell integrated graphics which are fantastic for my non-gaming purposes.
What country did you live in before 2009? As one of the people who opposed the Bush administration, we were told by that administration that if we did not agree with them, we were no better than the terrorists ("If you're not with us, you're against us!"). This scared all of the reporters who had tough questions about the Iraq War to keep their mouths shut or only ask softball questions. I was told by supporters of the administration that "This is America! If you don't like it, then leave!". And your 1984 reference about changing stories in mid-stream could best be applied to the number of rationales for going to Iraq - by the end of the war, I had lost count. Look, I'm not going to defend Obama because I have not been impressed with him by any means, but don't act like being against the government is suddenly unfashionable. It is always going to be fashionable to be against the government among your peers when your party is not in power and it is always going to be unfashionable to be against the government among your peers when your party is not in power.