Comment Re:Exxon's Response (Score 1) 187
On another note, I like melons as do many other people I'm sure. But why in the hell are those whales heading for melons?!
Clearly, they were watermelons.
On another note, I like melons as do many other people I'm sure. But why in the hell are those whales heading for melons?!
Clearly, they were watermelons.
It's hard to predict.
Well, I'm not so sure about that. I predicted it back in 2011. Money quote:
Ubuntu is slipping out of control. Canonical have stopped listening and – more importantly – working with the community. The number of defects is growing, but Canonical’s response is to make it harder for mere mortals to submit bugs. They seem to think that strong guidance is needed for their product to grow in new and interesting ways. Fair enough, but they’re confusing leadership with control. They’re simply imposing their views because they don’t value the discussion. They’re treating criticism as opposition and shutting themselves off from valid feedback.
That's pretty much the argument being made in TFA, but I'm not going to try to take credit for oracular powers or anything. It's been pretty obvious for some time that they were on the wrong track.
This will never work.
BYOD is a nice idea, but even from an employee's perspective, it doesn't make much sense.
Do you really want IT reading / archiving all non-work related emails and texts on your phone? No, you don't. Even if they're the most benign messages ever.
I get that the company may take a peek at my computer screen at work, or MITM my gChats or quick "Do you want to meet for lunch?" emails I send out on company time on company machines, but I don't want them downloading the entirety of my private mail account, backing it up and perusing it.
Wireless gets them some access which is better than nothing but not even close to fiber. Your not going to magic around the spectrum issues
Yep, it would be much more accurate to say they're leapfrogging past copper - which is a Good Thing. But fibre isn't optional, not even with O3B's MEO satellites in the picture. If you look at the submarine cable map, you can pretty much see at a glance which countries are more aggressive about internet and technology in general, and which ones are being left behind. Fibre is going to be needed in most urban areas, even if it doesn't ultimately consist of FTTH.
...shouldn't they focus on law and order first?
Sure, fine, but good communication and coordination are necessary elements of law and order, from developing a cultural intolerance for corruption right down to the cop on his beat and emergency numbers.
The moral of the story is, nothing comes 'first' before communications technology, because everything you do benefits from better comms capability, whether it's knowing the market price of the grain you grow, or finding job opportunities in your city, or organising a community protest, or just using plain old wikipedia to supplement your need for basic facts.
No, we need a program to divert them from destroying society.
A program?!? Nuh-uh, just put them in the same room with Triangle Man. Everybody knows Triangle Man beats Particle Man.
... And, uh, let's keep Universe Man in the wings just in case Triangle Man gets outta hand....
Write something that uses a regular expression library (RE2 would be ideal, if your expressions are actually regular), and keeps the compiled patterns resident. Most of your time is likely spent parsing the patterns.
I'm probably going to get shat on by kids who don't know any better, but....
Use Perl. If a complex set of regular expressions is taking 15 seconds per email, then there's clearly something wrong with the implementation. I suspect you're doing too much backtracking. I've been guilty of the same in the past. In one case, simply anchoring my regular expressions to the start and end of the string reduced running time literally by two orders of magnitude. Just glom the whole message into a string and go nuts.
And before someone makes a 'write-only' joke about Perl regular expressions, I'd suggest you take a look at Perl 6 regex grammars, which provide you with the ability to lay out complex rulesets with ease - and makes them vastly easier to read.
As with any programming issue, it's horses for courses, and when it comes to parsing text with regular expressions, Perl is still at the head of its class.
I'd still love to know what fixes that "Kerberos 5 refuses you" thing you sometimes see in the Console when a user logs in.
It's survived an OS reinstall and rebuilt user account.
Americans are renounced for not knowing their geography, but thinking that Indonesia is within US borders is still astonishing.
Heh, shyeah it is. It's where the Indonapolis 500 is run.
Fuh, had me almost tricked there....
The latency will be absolute shit. Useless for most bandwidth-intensive internet applications. Imagine trying to play a game with twice the lag of a dialup modem. Not only that, but one cloud in the sky and it's game over, man.
Not reliable at all.
Besides, they haven't even begun development on space sharks, and without space sharks, what good is a frickin' space laser?
And no, GIMP is not competition (and I have been using that, since the late-90s).
The fact that I use it instead of Photoshop shows it is. I suspect that as Photoshop start moving more and more to the cloud and users have to pay a subscription, more people will suddenly find Gimp very competitive.
I've never seen GIMP used in a production environment. It's just not really there yet.
(Disclaimer: I've worked for a fair number of TV networks and on several features you've probably seen.)
If your intent is to move into professional production, learn Avid, FCP and Premiere - in that order. Though, truth be told, Premiere comes in a distant third. It's been gaining ground since the FCP X disaster, but doesn't quite have the same market penetration.
Honestly, almost no one is going to care about the content of your student projects. But they will care that you used them to learn how to work with different editing platforms.
"Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant