Firefox's greasemonkey allows you to have javascript of your choosing execute on sites - you can do a lot of this sort of funk with it. I've seen things to remove annoying sections from myspace and display full size photos when you rollover the thumbnail, among other things.
On the downside, it requires a bit of knowledge on the behalf of the person creating the scripts. But it's pretty braindead to actually install and use them.
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In DOS, without a memory manager, if you use pointers / arrays you have unrestricted access to every byte of RAM on the computer. Completely raw. Think about every time you get a segfault or a "Program performed an illegal operation" - that could easily be a dead system right there.
You assume by the first part that everybody on earth who codes Free software is from the USA... Not everybody might think it an advantage that the USA saves money from their work. (Although, I agree that by releasing it as Free software they forfeit their right to give a damn)
My first real encounter with programming was The Games Factory and later multimedia fusion from ClickTeam - it did a darned good job of teaching the concepts of programming, while being easy enough to get something very decent quickly and easily, but being multipurpose enough to be surprisingly useful (Multimedia Fusion along with MooSock and a little creativity was sufficient to crash remote windows machines running a particular firewall software...)
I was later taught a tad of VBS inside access by a friend, and moved onto VB5, and reluctantly VB6. A lot more powerful, not quite as easy and fun though.
I then taught myself C and later C++ from scratch by Sams' books. I never really got the hang of programming for the windows API or any particular GUI toolkit, but I've latched onto the core of the language more and learnt to love embedded programming in C and assembler (Microchip PICs).
So, for anybody with young kids showing an interest in that sort of thing, I can recommend Clickteam's stuff, and Sams' books if they want to get more serious (Although the Sams' books teach the ANSI standard and stuff very well, they lack any information on system libraries which would be needed to actually do anything useful, so bear in mind, until you read up on that, you are going to be seeing an awful lot of the command prompt. Without the means to do anything really useful like graphics / networking, I can see a lot of people quickly losing interest.)
Playing gears of war 2 with a friend while listening to abba and other cheesy music was rather amazing and one of the most fun experiences I've had gaming.
To continue the usual car analogy, this isn't what has happened with technology such as cars. Cars were "Good enough" long ago, but these days most cars still have an excess of performance and are far from "Good enough".
Ok, I'm not entirely serious - I think we'll reach a point with computers where the performance gain becomes negligible (Either that or the current trend of bloat and crap increasing and everything being just as slow will continue).
As there has been a recent surge in more environmental/efficient cars, similar things seem to be happening to computers - there are a decent number of advances in saving power and things these days in technology.
In some countries, people pay for recieving texts. In the UK, normally recieving texts is free, except some online services manage to charge you by sending you texts, not entirely sure how that works.
From my (limited) knowledge, a mooring generally refers to a permanent thing affixed to the seabed, often by a large lump of concrete, or several anchors. But I reckon they mean effectively the same thing in this case - making the thing stay put by some means.
Well, I'd preface this by pointing out that they aren't yet creating blood, just a single component that mimics a single property of real blood. Proper blood does a whole lot more than just carry oxygen. To copy real blood, the full mixture would need the correct solubility of CO2, some sort of clotting system, and a whole lot more (This is just from GCSE biology, I'm hardly an expert). Although, it could certainly be helpful even if it doesn't do all that - presumably a bunch of crap blood substitute is still better than no blood at all!
So you're claiming linux allows your computer to run without power...? Or have I missed the joke?
Oh, also, by the way, I don't give a crap. I don't need or want to run my laptop for years, and I suspect most people agree with me. I'm sure your debian uptime would be beaten by a microcontroller running a 2 line hard loop.
I'm in precisely the same boat - used linux entirely for a long time, and now a new laptop with vista preinstalled - was intending to replace it with gentoo or something, but I love it - I haven't even bothered to dual boot. I haven't had a single BSOD. I'd had a few programs just not run (bioshock...?), and a couple of changes which have been pretty annoying though
Well, the phantom limb comes from having had a limb lopped off. I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep all of my limbs in real life than start chopping them off to play second life. (I haven't read the article. If I am wrong and it's an additional limb, fair does, and a cool idea)
it's funny actually, I'm currently in the process of doing the same, but in reverse. I've been almost only a linux user for many years, and am now shifting primarily to vista. And I am mostly liking it, though I am cheating with openoffice, firefox, cygwin bash
My n73 has a standalone flash player app - maybe not integrated into the browser, but definitely there. And I would presume all newer, and probably some older n series phones have this. So it's not a big leap to presume that a lot of phones have this app, and maybe other sorts of flash player.
I'm not going to club you into oblivion for that post, but I'd like to quiz you on basically every linux/unix app running. I'm not disagreeing, I'm curious. Are we talking the level of support that wine gives on linux? Or are we talking eeeeverything?
And I wonder how much all this extra tech/sensors adds to the price...... Personally, I'll go for the switch and keep the cash.
I mean, sure, shiny stuff is cool, but if that's the best they can think of to do with the tech... *sigh*
If you've seen the movie Untracable, this rings a bell. This seems to be working on the idea that the "bad guy" in the movie is infact innocent. Now, I don't know about you, but that's not personally how I feel.
If I manufactured a way to get a cat to fire a gun, aimed the gun at someone (Tab to the ok button), and got the cat to fire the gun, I can't see me being considered innocent, and I certainly don't think I should be considered innocent.
Although, where you draw the line is certainly iffy. I'm not quite sure where I stand on this. The way I see it, either a) People are responsible for what they agree to but don't read. They are lazy, and so get shafted b) Some sort of regulation in what rights people can sign away.
No matter how difficult you make it to accept a EULA, you can't force people to read it, and it's always going to be possible for people to accept without reading. But you can't really ban contracts... Maybe some sort of iffy misinterpretable law about obscuvation of contracts?
If the phone a) Needs to be turned on while charging b) Draws more power than 100mA @ 5V, then it won't so much charge on USB as discharge more slowly.
From my experience with ipod charging, and from reading something about phone charging elsewhere, I think there is something to do with holding the data/clock lines at ground, for a dumb wall charger.
I myself built a little USB adapter (I mangled a USB extension cable, ok?) for my ipod that connects only the power and not data lines, so my ipod can charge from computers without going into disk mode.
Fair enough, I wasn't stating by any means that this particular saying is incorrect. I'm not arguing either way. I just think it's odd how a lot of people seem to think something is a fact just because it has become an often quoted saying (I'm not saying that it has to be untrue because of this, merely that it does not have to be true).
Oh, and to the person talking about my quotes earlier, my grammar does not validate/invalidate my argument, I was intending to draw attention to the fact that whether a phrase like this/can/ be considered "correct" or "incorrect" seems shakey.
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Firefox's greasemonkey allows you to have javascript of your choosing execute on sites - you can do a lot of this sort of funk with it. I've seen things to remove annoying sections from myspace and display full size photos when you rollover the thumbnail, among other things. On the downside, it requires a bit of knowledge on the behalf of the person creating the scripts. But it's pretty braindead to actually install and use them.
In DOS, without a memory manager, if you use pointers / arrays you have unrestricted access to every byte of RAM on the computer. Completely raw. Think about every time you get a segfault or a "Program performed an illegal operation" - that could easily be a dead system right there.
You assume by the first part that everybody on earth who codes Free software is from the USA... Not everybody might think it an advantage that the USA saves money from their work. (Although, I agree that by releasing it as Free software they forfeit their right to give a damn)
My first real encounter with programming was The Games Factory and later multimedia fusion from ClickTeam - it did a darned good job of teaching the concepts of programming, while being easy enough to get something very decent quickly and easily, but being multipurpose enough to be surprisingly useful (Multimedia Fusion along with MooSock and a little creativity was sufficient to crash remote windows machines running a particular firewall software...)
I was later taught a tad of VBS inside access by a friend, and moved onto VB5, and reluctantly VB6. A lot more powerful, not quite as easy and fun though.
I then taught myself C and later C++ from scratch by Sams' books. I never really got the hang of programming for the windows API or any particular GUI toolkit, but I've latched onto the core of the language more and learnt to love embedded programming in C and assembler (Microchip PICs).
So, for anybody with young kids showing an interest in that sort of thing, I can recommend Clickteam's stuff, and Sams' books if they want to get more serious (Although the Sams' books teach the ANSI standard and stuff very well, they lack any information on system libraries which would be needed to actually do anything useful, so bear in mind, until you read up on that, you are going to be seeing an awful lot of the command prompt. Without the means to do anything really useful like graphics / networking, I can see a lot of people quickly losing interest.)
Technically that is true. They didn't add nicotine to tobacco.
Playing gears of war 2 with a friend while listening to abba and other cheesy music was rather amazing and one of the most fun experiences I've had gaming.
If you can have/use a larger key than your data, then you can XOR it with a one time pad, which *is* undetectable and unbreakable
To continue the usual car analogy, this isn't what has happened with technology such as cars. Cars were "Good enough" long ago, but these days most cars still have an excess of performance and are far from "Good enough". Ok, I'm not entirely serious - I think we'll reach a point with computers where the performance gain becomes negligible (Either that or the current trend of bloat and crap increasing and everything being just as slow will continue). As there has been a recent surge in more environmental/efficient cars, similar things seem to be happening to computers - there are a decent number of advances in saving power and things these days in technology.
In some countries, people pay for recieving texts. In the UK, normally recieving texts is free, except some online services manage to charge you by sending you texts, not entirely sure how that works.
From my (limited) knowledge, a mooring generally refers to a permanent thing affixed to the seabed, often by a large lump of concrete, or several anchors. But I reckon they mean effectively the same thing in this case - making the thing stay put by some means.
Well, I'd preface this by pointing out that they aren't yet creating blood, just a single component that mimics a single property of real blood. Proper blood does a whole lot more than just carry oxygen. To copy real blood, the full mixture would need the correct solubility of CO2, some sort of clotting system, and a whole lot more (This is just from GCSE biology, I'm hardly an expert). Although, it could certainly be helpful even if it doesn't do all that - presumably a bunch of crap blood substitute is still better than no blood at all!
So you're claiming linux allows your computer to run without power...? Or have I missed the joke? Oh, also, by the way, I don't give a crap. I don't need or want to run my laptop for years, and I suspect most people agree with me. I'm sure your debian uptime would be beaten by a microcontroller running a 2 line hard loop.
I'm in precisely the same boat - used linux entirely for a long time, and now a new laptop with vista preinstalled - was intending to replace it with gentoo or something, but I love it - I haven't even bothered to dual boot. I haven't had a single BSOD. I'd had a few programs just not run (bioshock...?), and a couple of changes which have been pretty annoying though
Well, the phantom limb comes from having had a limb lopped off. I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep all of my limbs in real life than start chopping them off to play second life. (I haven't read the article. If I am wrong and it's an additional limb, fair does, and a cool idea)
it's funny actually, I'm currently in the process of doing the same, but in reverse. I've been almost only a linux user for many years, and am now shifting primarily to vista. And I am mostly liking it, though I am cheating with openoffice, firefox, cygwin bash
My n73 has a standalone flash player app - maybe not integrated into the browser, but definitely there. And I would presume all newer, and probably some older n series phones have this. So it's not a big leap to presume that a lot of phones have this app, and maybe other sorts of flash player.
I'm not going to club you into oblivion for that post, but I'd like to quiz you on basically every linux/unix app running. I'm not disagreeing, I'm curious. Are we talking the level of support that wine gives on linux? Or are we talking eeeeverything?
And I wonder how much all this extra tech/sensors adds to the price...... Personally, I'll go for the switch and keep the cash. I mean, sure, shiny stuff is cool, but if that's the best they can think of to do with the tech... *sigh*
If you've seen the movie Untracable, this rings a bell. This seems to be working on the idea that the "bad guy" in the movie is infact innocent. Now, I don't know about you, but that's not personally how I feel.
If I manufactured a way to get a cat to fire a gun, aimed the gun at someone (Tab to the ok button), and got the cat to fire the gun, I can't see me being considered innocent, and I certainly don't think I should be considered innocent.
Although, where you draw the line is certainly iffy. I'm not quite sure where I stand on this. The way I see it, either a) People are responsible for what they agree to but don't read. They are lazy, and so get shafted b) Some sort of regulation in what rights people can sign away.
No matter how difficult you make it to accept a EULA, you can't force people to read it, and it's always going to be possible for people to accept without reading. But you can't really ban contracts... Maybe some sort of iffy misinterpretable law about obscuvation of contracts?
If the phone a) Needs to be turned on while charging b) Draws more power than 100mA @ 5V, then it won't so much charge on USB as discharge more slowly.
Yeh, I've used a similar wifi dongle from orange, I believe
From my experience with ipod charging, and from reading something about phone charging elsewhere, I think there is something to do with holding the data/clock lines at ground, for a dumb wall charger. I myself built a little USB adapter (I mangled a USB extension cable, ok?) for my ipod that connects only the power and not data lines, so my ipod can charge from computers without going into disk mode.
I like to think I have control of my arms. From the video, the control seems iffy at best. :-).)
(Although, I'll second the +1 funny
Fair enough, I wasn't stating by any means that this particular saying is incorrect. I'm not arguing either way. I just think it's odd how a lot of people seem to think something is a fact just because it has become an often quoted saying (I'm not saying that it has to be untrue because of this, merely that it does not have to be true). Oh, and to the person talking about my quotes earlier, my grammar does not validate/invalidate my argument, I was intending to draw attention to the fact that whether a phrase like this /can/ be considered "correct" or "incorrect" seems shakey.
Both the travel and ordinary old charger worked with my 6210/6310/6310i, and I know the ordinary old charger works with adapter with my n73.