
Re: Eh?
"Gimp icon because, duh!"
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I think the name GIMP is AWESOME. It reminds me of a scene from Pulp Fiction.
As for the SJW's who have *NOTHING* *BETTER* *TO* *DO* than to *ANGST* over a *PROGRAM* *NAME*...
GET A LIFE you WORTHLESS SJW SCUMBAGS!!! and STOP FORNICATING WITH THE REST OF US and whatever NAMES WE WANT TO USE.
Might as well call it S&MSUBMISSIVE as opposed to 'GIMP'.
FORNICATING SJW's... !!! NUKE 'EM 'till they GLOW, then SHOOT 'EM in the DARK! (see icon)
it's really ok as-is with fuse support. FreeBSD has fuse support in the kernel. I can't recall if fuse support is build into Linux now [if so, excellent!]. So fuseFS is probably the best way to put ANY file system with patent or other encumberances into Linux, since it's not required to be "part of the kernel" [but might as WELL be]
FuseFS for windows would solve this. But ONLY if the file system drivers DO NOT REQUIRE SIGNED CERTS [which Micro-shaft would NEVER approve of]. Since THEY are the keepers of the keys (aka STRANGLEHOLD) on that, no sneaking any drivers through that allow pure userland file systems, either.
actually Mac and Linux _DO_ have exFAT support, via fuse
it's been that way for a while. and the fuse drivers are pretty good. It's a little klunky but works fine (and also in FreeBSD, worth pointing out).
What I'd like to see: universal userland FUSE support in WINDOWS - WITHOUT the need of SIGNED DRIVERS.
"Perhaps this tool isn't that great. I've seen this sort of thing be crap at actually judging code quality."
I can think of a number of reaons why a pull request should not be accepted...
a) use of global variables for no good reason. I had someone submit a patch that did this to a simple utility I wrote, years before github actually. I basically shelved it. NOT polluting the desgn.
b) use of hard tabs. *NO* - just *NO* (it doesn't display the same on every editor, duh)
the only exception are when required by the file format, like make utilities
c) violating basic code standard. If everything is ALLMAN STYLE, don't you DARE put a K&R style 'if()' block in there.
d) single character variable names - NO
e) anything whitesmith's style - double indenting is an irritation and an eyesore
f) you didn't include comments to explain anything? Even if it's trivial PUT FRICKING COMMENTS. The next confused person might be YOU 5 years from now, going "what was I thinking?"
g) code is just "unreadable" by people like me, who don't like looking at alphabet soup code and having to 'figure things out' instead of getting work done. Do the work up front, use comments and format it in a readable and consistent manner.
h) fears using 'goto' when it's not only practical, it's more efficient to use it. You find a lot of 'goto' in kernel code, worthy of mention.
Now... how does that tool do on THOSE things ???
suddenly, because Micro-shaft's "SOLUTION" was simply to UPDATE their EULA to say "oh and you agree to this too" (so it appears anyway), I'm reminded of THIS SOUTH PARK EPISODE
"The prime group is typically something like INTJ on the Myers-Briggs scale."
That would depend on the TYPE of coding. For IT, probably INTJ since you have to have a stick up your backside for some o' that. On the other hand, for SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ENTP is more likely...
ENTPs are the mad scientists of the Myers-Briggs scale. In a funny demotivational, there was a trebuchet made of pencils and batteries with a caption similar to "making a trebuchet out of office supplies and the pencils off of your INTJ boss's desk"
yeah he probably lined them up, ordered by size.
(oh wait that was ISTJ boss... so maybe INTJ not so anal retentive then?)
so what do you want to do, ROLL OVER and let "Bully China" RAPE you?
Grow a freaking SPINE, you're acting like a WIMP.
This really boils down to whether you want COMMUNISTS in China to RUN YOUR LIFE, eventually. _I_ certainly do NOT. As long as we allow the current situation (see my earlier post) to continue, it will ONLY get worse, and YOUR job might be NEXT.
And then, YOUR country. And YOUR life.
"Dell is not a "compute-making giant". It doesn't make anything."
You must include their OEM suppliers IN CHINA to identify them as "manufacturers".
My suggestion: find alternate suppliers, NOT in China. Pay the tariffs as long as you have to, then reap the rewards of NOT having your company taken over by China and/or your intellectual property STOLEN in the future.
Dell: you didn't think about THAT, didja?
Oh, and one more thing, Dell: STFU. You don't understand what's going on. Let Trump *FINISH*. It's working. Reporting your IGNORANCE on these matters is nice fodder for the 'hate-Trump' media, who are ALL exhibiting what Sean Hannity calls "Trump Derangement Syndrome". If Trump cured cancer, ended all worldwide hunger, and agreed to every liberal policy INCLUDING that ridiculous "climate change" B.S., you'd STILL be treating him the same way, because he's Trump. That is what "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is.
The thing is, China has been bullying the world since the 1990's. They do it through UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES, and NOBODY ELSE has been calling them OUT on it.
a) they "dump" their products, undercutting competition, with GOVERNMENT RUN companies. Yes, they're GOVERNMENT RUN by hand-selected "private individuals" "owning" them. China isw a COMMUNIST country. Don't forget that.
b) they regularly STEAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Some of it is only consumed within China itself, but THEY are a large segment of the world population, right?
c) they STILL pay SLAVE WAGES to their employees.
d) working conditions and environmental pollution appear to be WORSE than any 1st world country EVER had in the 20th, let alone 21st century. (I welcome any proof to the contrary, I doubt it exists though)
e) they openly CENSOR what their people can and can not see, hear, and say.
f) they quietly support (read: enable) Kim Jong Un's activities, making it HARDER to deal with him
g) They use "our money" to build up their internal infrastructure *AND* PURCHASE INTEREST IN FOREIGN COMPANIES, which gives them access to RESEARCH and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY that can THEN be used "back in China".
h) take a look at what China Telecom is doing with 5G. Yeah. Then think about it for a while.
I could go on, but THESE are reasons NOT to trust China's government any more. How many broken promises have they made? How many promises have they KEPT? Probably not very many, I don't have statistics on hand...
SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING. That someone is Trump. That "something" is A TRADE WAR.
As Musashi would say: Never pick up a sword if you aren't willing to cut.
icon, because, FACEPALM
from the article (quoting a Kaspersky rep)
"The reasons behind the lag in updating OS vary depending on the software in place, which may be unable to run on the newest OS versions, to economic reasons and even down to comfortability of routinely using the same OS,"
*WRONG* (well not totally but missing the boat on most of it)
Reasons for NOT switching to Win-10-nic:
a) IT support costs [for businesses] - all those licenses, changing everything around - ok that's economic but it's only a small fraction of it all
b) *DOWNTIME* due to *FORCED UPDATES* on *THEIR SCHEDULE* (and not IT doing it overnight or on a weekend when it's convenient FOR THE BUSINESS)
c) re-training costs since "rules" changed between 7 and 10 for no damn good reason except "they felt"
d) 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATSO FLUGLY vs 3D Skeuomorphic. who WANTS the FLAT ??? And don't EVEN get me started on end-user customization...
e) the "start thing" - so full of CRAPP that's HARD to GET RID OF (CRAPP keeps re-installing itself)
f) Adware, spyware, Cortana
g) "The Store" in general
h) "Microsoft Login" aka "spy on you at work as well as at home" and uniquely identifying you WHEREVER YOU ARE ON THE WEB. Oh yeah. didn't you know?
i) why must _I_ change to MICRO-SHIT's NEW (read: inferior) WAY of doing things? I liked it better BEFORE
j) why is my hard drive light blinking whenever the system is idle? WHAT the HELL is it DOING? And don't get me started on how much POWER (and/or bandwidth) all that is wasting...
and so on. yeah, they missed THAT bit of info, didn't they?
When you're NOT trying to control everyone (aka being an *EVIL* *OVERLORD*) you think of and actually implement things *like* what you suggested.
In Micro-shaft's case, I think they *ARE* trying to be *EVIL* *OVERLORDS* and as such, can't fathom the possibilities of DEVIATING FROM 'THE PLAN'.
that being said, a few years back MS made a "Windows on Mac" extension that ran on OSX that allowed you to run WINDOWS APPLICATIONS NATIVELY. It was a bit like Wine yeah.
They should do EXACTLY THAT for Linux. Let people have their LINUX DESKTOPS, but then use MS's "layer" to RUN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS.
Except, they don't WANT that. THey want you to run *CRapps* from "The Store" that use 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATSO FLUGLY "UWP" INTERFACES.
And if you do *NOT* they will find ways to *PUNISH* you, like convincing EVERY developer out there to NOT develop for ANY OTHER PLATFORM *EXCEPT* UWP on WIn-10-nic.
And they're trying. Hard. SERIOUSLY hard. Fortunately I think it's not working so well as they'd like.
Yeah, from the article:
"to allow businesses a bit more time to iron out their plans for migrating to Windows 10 from Windows 7"
In my opinion, it's more time to keep a mass migration of windows users from saying "*FEEL* it" and migrating to LINUX or even CHROMEBOOK, instead...
The only thing holding back a Linux revolution is THE APPEARANCE of a lack of available software for Linux. Those of us who use Linux _KNOW_ this is NOT true. However, marketeers from Redmond have DUPED people into *FEELING* (not thinking) that this is the case. Too many people these days *FEEL* instead of THINK, and as a result, they're subject to WHATEVER WHIMS THE MANIPULATORS WANT THEM TO FOLLOW.
THAT is what WIndows 10 is all about. Seriously. People talk about being "woke" but the ones doing that are A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM. To *REALLY* be "woke" you have to realize that you're being MANIPULATED by EMOTIONS and *FEEL*. THEN, stop fearing what you do not understand, gain some knowledge, ask the questions, and get REAL answers.
At that point Linux starts to look very, very good. "That one IT guy" that insists on running it... spend about 5 minutes with THAT guy asking about Linux.
not if you run 7 in a VM... in MOST cases, a _MODERN_ arch (let's say Ryzen) processor running Linux or FreeBSD as a host for virtualbox (or some other virtualizer) can run your old windows in that VM [which becomes portable, now - think about that] and whatever windows application you need [with some limitations].
No updates required. Whole system backups become trivial
and I *suppose* you could have Win-10-nic as the virtualization host, but why would you WANT to?
I have noticed that Ryzen virtualizes WAY better than the older 'Core' processors did. It makes the case extremely well, to virtualize windows 7 images instead of booting into windows, even for GAMES. And you'll be running them on the newer processor.
"things have moved on" - not because the customers WANTED it to, but because *THE MONOPOLY* *MADE* *IT* *SO*.
Two major reasons:
a) stranglehold on OS pre-installation from places *LIKE* 'Best Buy'
b) newer hardware not supported by 7 and earlier
It's like a TRUST from the late 19th century, when a single company owns EVERYTHING from resource procurement (mines and wells) to distribution (refineries and factories) to end (gas pumps and cars and trains and railroads and ...)
guess what happens to prices, quality, and customer satisfaction?
this is potentially where things get screwed up...
a) if I use github for my own stuff, I probably have 4 of 5 machines from which I do git push/pull
b) if i do this stuff for a client, who (let's say) has a PRIVATE REPO, I might be using MANY devices plus a workstation plus my home machine(s) to do development.
2FA is a PAIN IN THE ASS. I don't want it. Instead, I practice SAFE SURFING and use https and a complex password that I F-up typing a lot. And yeah, I have to type it in a LOT.
with the number of times I type in "git pull" or "git push" in a single day, they *BETTER* not make this MANDATORY, or they lose ME recommending their services *FOREVAR*
And I *NEVER* use the web interface except for really high level adminny things (where it's actually a bit easier, like create a new repo, or delete unwanted branches, or issues management)
Actually, it's FAR worse than that: Robocalls make having a telephone a COMPLETE NUISANCE.
As such my cell phone is OFF unless I'm calling someone else, _AND_ my land line's ringer is OFF. The answering machine picks up with a LECTURE aimed at robocallers. People who know me know why, and know I'll pick up if I can identify their voices through the announcement, or in the message itself.
And it hasn't been as bad lately as it was, 2-3 unwanted calls PER DAY for a while. Now it's down to about every other day, but STILL way more often than it SHOULD be...
(and it seems most of them are in non-english languages, go fig, usually Spanish or Chinese)
I think he was joking... but Greenland might be interesting _IF_ it has useful resources on it that left-wingers won't mine/drill/whatever for, like stopping oil drilling in Alaska for so many years because of whatever excuse they could come up with (like polar bears). Polar bears are just fine, even with the oil pipelines and drilling rigs. They don't need a gazillion acres to mate in . Sorta reminds me of that spotted owl nonsense a while back that was used to stop logging activity, put a bunch of people out of work even.
But yeah, 'Greenland Gold Rush' comes to mind. Or maybe diamonds. Or rare earths. Or OIL. Has anyone bothered looking there? If it were a U.S. Territory, while Trump is President, you BET people would look! And they'd probably FIND, too.
more like biased against non-left-wingers...
'conservative' by definition is not an extreme position, because it seeks to 'conserve' rather than 'radically change' things.
And THAT is what the social media bias is against! At least, from the evidence I have seen presented on multiple occasions, INCLUDING the way 'Diamond and Silk' were treated...
The concern here is the left-wing-biased social media and their tendency to "let pass" any left-wing extremism content they find, but then SIMULTANEOUSLY ban conservative (not so much right-wing) content. including "shadow bans" (where your followers stop seeing your new content without you knowing about it, that sort of thing), that this would MEDDLE IN THE ELECTIONS. You know, ACTUAL meddling, not just a bunch of made-up convenience stories based on lies that are known to have been paid for by the D.N.C. that get passed off as "intelligence" and are THEN used as a basis for getting FISA warrants...
In any case, wouldn't we ALL agree that Faceb[itch,ook] and Tw[a,i]tter and Google have TOO MUCH POWER in their hands? They're in a position to literally TAKE OVER THE WORLD by manipulating the 'sheeple'. That is NOT a good thing.
Instead, if we love freedom, these social media platforms need to remain NEUTRAL in the way they handle EVERYTHING. At least SOME oversight is needed.
in the 90's I lived in an apartment building across the street from a national guard armory. One day some crazy guy stole a tank and went on a rampage, running over cars, fire hydrants, telephone poles, etc. knocking out power for several hours and sending several geysers of water into the air,flooding several streets and wasting boatloads of fresh water.
The cops stopped him trying to go across a concrete divider on the freeway where he lost a tread trying to cross, and the cops jumped onto the tank. One cop got the hatch open and fired into the tank, killing the driver. Or that's how things went as I understand them [not actually seeing it]. I did, however, have the hours of no electricity and saw the destruction in the neighborhood, and heard the tank roaring down the street.
In any case, THAT guy was crazy too. Thankfully, the only fatality (or serious injury, for that matter) was the crazy tank driver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson_(San_Diego_Tank_Rampage)
I have to wonder if denying an employee the deserved mention as an inventor in a patent has ANYTHING to do with attempts to depress, hold back, or otherwise discourage competition for employees and increasing wages. As I recall, there was some "do not recruit" agreements between the various Silly Valley companies to avoid competing for them, a decade or so ago... am I right?
So yeah, denying credit on patents means someone ELSE is less likely to hire the guy, or at least force them into a 'bidding war' to keep him around.
yes, all of the above.
credit where credit is due. If he was a significant contributor to the invention, he deserves to be on the patent. If all he did was "what he was told", maybe not so much. But i expect there was actual engineering and creativity involved.
On the only patent application I was included on, I did the prototype implementation of the patented system. People barely associated with it (mostly managers) were also included, plus the guy whose idea it was (the engineering VP who briefed me on it so I could make the prototype).
So yeah, if this guy was involved in the creativity process, then he should be credited. All team members of significance in the process. What's wrong with doing that exactly?
(it's not like they have to pay him, they probably have 'work for hire' and other contract law on their side, but it's NOT a one-way street)
interesting point, I was thinking "just put regular Linux on it", maybe Devuan with a Mate desktop?
Or if I'm ready to deal with compatibility problems, I could maybe get FreeBSD to work on a chromebook!
In any case, all is NOT lost. Just need to switch over to a REAL OPERATING SYSTEM. Then if you miss Chrome OS, just load chromium browser by default when you start up...
there is likely to be a cost benefit 'maximum point' on L1 and maybe L2 and L3 cache. going 1000 times the L1 cache size we typically use NOW might get you bragging rights, but I question how much speedup it gets you as compared to now, or 10x, or 100x the size.
We're almost "there" with respect to storage in (essentially) non-volatile RAM with SSDs. That makes an observable difference in speed. But if you spend only 1% of the processing time waiting for RAM bus cycles because the cache is 'empty', how much of a difference would it make to eliminate that 1% ? Observably by an end-user, not a whole lot. The price tag, however, WOULD make a difference.
The reason there's no PERCEIVED Moore's Law improvements is that the software really isn't taking advantage of the hardware.
With the exception of virtualization, a 6 core (12 hyperthread) Ryzen processor idles 11 'cores' nearly all of the time. All of those transistors NOT being used.
Occasionally you'll see something that uses them, maybe a very special-written game or an application where its author(s) know something about symmetric multi-processing and multithread algorithms.
"my Ph.D. 25+ years ago involved these neural nets implemented on chip,"
Yes, this puts yuo in a unique position to see why the article is relevant, that's for sure. But seriously, when will this translate into the user perception of "faster" ?
With the exception of natural language speech, visual scanning and object recognition, and other things that a ROBOT would need, most people aren't seeing improvements.
So to most of the world, Moore's Law is dead, but only because of perception.
And the biggest reason for that is SOFTWARE, not hardware. Because, after all, hardware has gotten 'wider', and not faster LINEARLY. And WAY too many people that call themselves "engineers" still insist on thinking in a straight line. Well maybe that's just PROJECT MANAGEMENT doing that, engineers are creative and of course think non-linearly, but you have to be able to turn that non-linear processing nto a program... and I haven't seen a lot of evidence of that happening effectively enough to give the user the perception of "faster".
(clogging everything with bloat and feature creep and changing the UI into 2D FLAT hasn't helped at all but it makes SOME engineers *FEEL* like they "did something" to "improve it")
why should they check their OWN code for vulnerabilities? They have the CUSTOMERS as BETA TESTERS now!!!
what a massive challenge that complexity presents Microsoft's engineers from a security standpoint.
Not THAT massive. Back i nthe mid 2000's they should have done THIS instead of Vista:
a) audit every line of code using their massive programming staff, instead of "re-re-inventing" windows [with the exception of the vulnerable parts]
b) NOT re-re-invent it for WIndows "Ape" (8) nor Win-10-nic, but INSTEAD audit the HELL out of EVERYTHING, looking for basic vulnerabilities.
You have to think like thief, applying crowbars, hammers, and chemicals to locks. You can't "just assume" anything about marshalling. You have to check EVERY buffer length, even for trivial stuff.
strcpy(buffer, "string") - no!
strncpy(buffer,"string",sizeof(buffer)) <-- better
(you never know whether or not a buffer overflow might cause that static string pointer to be altered)
that being said MICROSHAFT WASTED A DECADE AND A HALF of WALL TIME to re-re-re-re-invent windows into the PILE OF CRAP it is today!
And oh, they left some serious OLD vulnerabilities in it, too... from a time when they wanted EVERYTHING insecurely interacting with EVERYTHING, and wanted ActiveX to be a MAJOR part of web pages! Pretty clueless, yeah.
icon, because, facepalm
"if the USA actually had its shit together yet regarding the use of Chip and PIN for card purchases"
most places have chip-reading ATM and credit card thingies. Unfortunately...
a) the chip does not always read [the pad gets dirty or damaged]
b) not all cards have the chip in them
c) signature on credit card is still a valid way to purchase. However, it's the responsibility of the seller to check the sig against photo ID.
often when i go to Target or Walmart or any other store I frequent, it doesn't ask for a signature at all. But I've shopped at those places a lot, too, and used my credit card to do it [faster, easier, you get rewards, might as well just pay it off in one lump sum every month or maintain an occasional balance when necessary].
but yeah online purchases simply require that you give the card's security info that's printed on the back. Then they ship to a physical address which may or may not be 'on file' with the credit card company.
in the USA you're only liable for $50 of fraudulent charges as long as you report it within a reasonable time. Typically you'll be reimbursed for that as well, unless you dragged it on for some reason. The banks want your business, after all, and if you don't use your card, they don't make money.
in the USA local and state gummints often heavily tax such things, "sin taxes" if you will (especially tobacco) because the powers in charge convinced the populous at large to authorize it in an election... and so "the will of the people" (read: the manipulation of the voters) makes "sins" more expensive "for their own good".
yeah I'm being snarky about it.
MIB's are real.
(allegedly) the CIA "does things" to help prevent serious massive problems. When they fail, we get things like the 9/11 attack.
Rarely things will be done by them TO the populous. Mostly it's done FOR the populous, though I expect that on occasion things have been done to bring individuals more power.
Well, when you've been exposed to certain things in the military, and seen people react in a certain way when you say something or make reference to a friend or relative that's potentially involved in black ops or secret stuff, and who knows, maybe it gets CONFIRMED by someone RELIABLE? And then you perhaps have seen classified information that "was obtained" and you realize what had to be done to OBTAIN that, and you appreciate what these people do for your nation's security [and that of allies, as well] and you get a different perspective, and maybe are willing to say "well, as long as they're working FOR us, and not ON us, we should leave it be and NOT try to expose it...]
and I'll leave it at that. [I was in the Navy in the 80's, and I saw and did 'things' some of which are written about in books, and that's all I'm gonna say at the moment - no conspiracies, just the cold war - been told "just keep walking, don't say anything" even]
all that being said, though, a "deep state" that works for its own power has apparently existed for a while and is now being RIGHTFULLY exposed by actual evidence, not just some nutcase conspiracy theory.
the NRA is mostly
a) gun enthusiasts who simply like guns
b) people into hunting and target shooting and things like that
c) freedom-loving '2nd amendment' types that believe in defending yourself, because all that the gummint police can do in MANY circumstances is DRAW A CHALK LINE around your body and investigate the crime after you're ALREADY DEAD [in which case, carrying a firearm could prevent that last part, and make the PERPETRATOR DEAD instead]. So the FIRST line of defense is YOU. [and there should be NO restrictions on law abiding citizens defending themselves in a FREE society].
Anyway, 'infiltration' into the NRA wouldn't work very well, even if it was tried.
This whole thing could be a stunt and he could have a $5M short in the works.
the S.E.C. monitors this kind of thing. If a corporate officer were to suddenly short stock right before it drops significantly, or BUY UP a bunch shortly before it takes a huge gain, the S.E.C. investigates whether or not insider information or stock price manipulation could have been involved. They're really VERY anal retentive about that sort of thing. If there was any dirty dealing, they'll find it. And as it affects a lot of people, they'd pass it along to a grand jury for an indictment. [or that's what they're SUPPOSED to do]
yeah, new conspiracy: he's so involved in the deep state, they won't do that, he'll get off and they'll just make it like he's insane, and this profit becomes his new golden parachute... while the MIBs and the Deep State get their side-step distraction going to mask the REAL truth. Heh.
The 'general message' was that he was personally involved in 2 events, cooperating with MIBs, and was offered up publicly like some kind of confession.
First, the wall street+banking 2007-2009 crashing+bailouts and perhaps 'quantitative easing' [if i read the article correctly], and THEN the failed election meddling of 2016. So why put himself into the middle of a couple of infamous situations and insinuate the MIB's were working with him... and THEN "admit it" in public?
Evidence is surfacing about "the deep state". Now that it's probably on the verge of being opened up so everyone can see it, this guy's pretty much inserting himself. If 6 months from now the evidence says he's NOT involved, it becomes "just more fake news" that distracts and distorts the facts. If it's the truth, it'll be in all of the documents that are released over time via the Freedom of Information Act [and all of the VERY interested parties that constantly ask for more and more documents to expose all of this with].
Right now it looks (to me, and probably many others) like he's delusional.
Well, I've known relatively harmless people that have some pretty wacky ideas before. Many are harmless though. Some of them are religious people. So god or angels (specifically named ones) tell them to get off of drugs or go to church, no harm there. Sometimes you got to say "well, if it's true that's great, and if it's not, no harm" and just accept it as "that person's perspective". Not being able to know what's going on inside their heads, it could simply be ESP and the subconscious mind trying to make sense of it. So the mind forms an artificial construct with familiar things (like named angels and/or god). but then again someone who was a drug addict is off of drugs now, and that's not a BAD thing. [so no need to judge or get the white coats with the arms tied in the back if these people are reasonably sane in everything ELSE in their lives. might as well leave them alone in that regard]
Not quite the same as claiming you're in the middle of an MIB-related conspiracy, which unfortunately affects MORE than "just you".
Watch out to see if the price recovers and if it does who has bought shares at their lowest ebb.
Yeah I blame George Soros [even if he wasn't directly involved]. You know, the same man who manipulated the GBP and broke the bank of England [and many others].
Nothing like a short sale before some nasty stock manipulation via "press releases" like that... followed by a re-buy and 'wait for it to recover'.
/me points out the icon. you're welcome.
could be a late onset of schizophrenia [which usually manifests itself when you're in your 20's according to the online references I've found].
as long as it's "harmless crazy" nobody should care, though.
Then again... from the article, he got a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University.
Maybe it's just THAT driving "the crazy".
I suspect every genius is just a *little* crazy. But hey, as long as your crazy stays in your head, it could just be 'genius'...
/me going back to my 'mad science' now, muahahahahahaha
If you ask ME, webkit just shot up in its value from MY perspective...
From the article:
"privacy-piercing browser code will be treated as a security abuse."
GOOD. I've been considering writing a WebKit browser (which can actually be as trivial as less than 20 lines of Python code, or as complex as you might want, involving touch gestures and everything else chrome does) anyway. Midori started out as "a nice idea" but they went the way of 2D FLATTY McFLATFACE FLATASS FLATSO in their more recent releases, and so it's off my list of acceptable browsers... (although they ARE using shadow effect in Midori, so not nearly as bad as Australis or some of the other Chromium-crap I've had to stomach).
/me wishes I could locate and SEVERELY punish those responsible for the 2D FLATSO "everywhere" cram-it-up-our-backsides-by-removing-all-other-options B.S.
Anyway, WebKit. I like it.
here's a sample python WebKit+GTK browser in python using the older style python code - using '.' for the indents since they are "disappeared" by the editor
import sys
import gtk
import webkit
import gobject
gobject.threads_init()
window = gtk.Window()
window.set_default_size(800, 480)
window.fullscreen()
window.connect("destroy", lambda a: gtk.main_quit())
browser = webkit.WebView()
if len(sys.argv) > 1 :
..browser.open(sys.argv[1])
else :
..browser.open("http://yourhome.page")
window.add(browser)
window.show_all()
gtk.main()
yeah. it's THAT simple. Or you can add menus and bookmarks and plugins and features and gestures and zoom and and and you get the idea.
big brass levers look cool. They're easily seen from a distance, easily recognized for what they are, and in a smoke filled room (due to battle damage) can be operated without squinting a whole lot, using flashlights if necessary. Or just "by feel" because you know where each bell's position is.
Back when i was in the navy, in the 80's even, I commented about how the panels had these big analog meters on them. I immediately thought "we should have digital meters" thinking that tech had advanced. Then I spent some time standing watch on the panels, got familiar with how things were done, understoode more, and REALIZED that a 1/2" wide meter needle can be seen from across the room even when filled with smoke or steam, and you can get a general idea of what the readings are by the relative position of the needles. If you were forced to read a number, you could make a mistake in poor visibility.
Not only that, these old techs are BATTLE TESTED and have DECADES of reliability. In a battle, you want that. I can't imagine trying to manage combat operations with the touch screens. Ew.
Back to Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority". I keep mentioning that, yeah...
hey - it's NOT that complex you know... just because YOU seem to be afraid to dive under the hood and tinker with it, doesn't mean the REST of the world must behave like a spineless coward.
however, a cautionary "skim over the manual" is probably wise for ANY new kind of OS toy.
here's my tweeks:
vfs.zfs.arc_max="2147483648"
vfs.zfs.arc_min="536870912"
Helps a LOT on an older 8Gb RAM workstation. On a 4Gb RAM server box, I use about half those values.