"What?" shriek the Slashbots, "If hot Brazilian chicks can't view the message HTML, traceroute the links and the redirects and WHOIS the resulting information, they shouldn't be allowed to use computers!" Perhaps, and perhaps me neither, but it doesn't surprise me that people get burned.
No, people who shouldn't be allowed to use computers are the ones who can't read and or listen. The warning has been the same: from eBay and the banks themselves, to ISPs to even the mainstream media "We will never ask for your account information by email, if someone does they are not us, DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION VIA E-MAIL or by sites you clicked on in a link in an email".
Its not hard, and the warning is everywhere but its like people get these emails and to smart switch goes off. I don't get it.
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Sure the function names are varying, but that can be fixed eventually
At the expense of backward compatability. Who's going to pay to rewrite all that code?
On the episode 2 dvd, there are some deleted scenes between Anakin and Padme, that I think really would have added to the movie in helping to explain why exactly she was falling in love with Anakin.
Exactly! I'm glad someone else noticed this. Those scenes (and the removal of a couple like the 'surfing' one you mentioned) made the whole romance make so much more sense. Without them Padme goes from 'I hate you' to 'Your the funny little kid I met on Tatooine' to 'I want to jump your bones!'. Nice geek fantasy but not realistic:)
It takes over ActiveX? Plugs the security holes? Fixes it so that IE supports PNGs and web standards properly? Makes IE render faster?
The problem I have with IE is not the interface, its the fact that it doesn't render valid HTML/CSS correctly and all the security problems. Maxthon doesn't fix those things because they are in the engine.
Granted maybe I'm misunderstanding since the article is Slashdotted but it really sounds to me like this is 'not invented here' syndrome more than Apple doing anything nefarious.
Routers don't automatically send it unless the DNS records specify a wildcard for the domain. Slashdot seem to do this (try foo.slashdot.org)
It can also be specified explicitly, when you do that bar.foo.org can point to a completely different server. I do it this way since I have my hosting for various things all spread out. I could still use a wildcard but I don't really see the need.
I agree they deliver functionality, but functionality isn't software. I can't take the output of Google and recreate what they are doing, i.e. I'm not receiving anything at all other than a response from a server.
To say that someone should make their code available for download because users make use of the software remotely is ludicrus!
Think about it this way: If someone sits down at my computer and uses OpenOffice mean that I have to provide them with the source? What if I don't have it installed? Does that make me in violation of the GPL?
GPL is all about distrobution, period. To make it something else or to try to change the meaning of 'distrobution' is a grave mistake which will hurt Free software in the long run, even if the majority of developers don't go to the new version its only going to take one instance to leave a lot of businesses with a bad taste in their mouth.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. My point was that the author of the article is making the OS install an issue when it isn't.
I think the problem with the package managers is: who do you create the icon for? On Linux everyone's desktop is stored with their home directory, including menus, etc. How does one decide who should get the icon? And if everyone is to get it do you write to everyone's home directories? Even then how do you know what desktop environment/window manager/etc they use.
Until Linux is a simple grandmother-friendly install, desktop Linux is going to stay in the ghetto
No its going to stay in the ghetto until OEMs bundle it. Could your grandmother install Windows?
I'm sick of this "No one uses desktop Linux because its hard to install". Patently untrue, Linux installs are generally easier IMHO, one reboot as opposed to 3 with Windows (and that's not counting updates!).
Software producers don't make business apps or games for Linux because people aren't using Linux. People aren't using it because it doesn't come bundled and the OEMs don't sell it because the games and the business apps just aren't there. Until someone solves the chicken and the egg problem there won't be a lot of Linux desktop growth.
Honeslty that's fine with me. Linux works on my desktop and does what I need it to do. I've also gotten it to work fine on several laptops I don't know what this author's problem is!
I use a triple approach of greylisting, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Spam and viruses gone. I've since changed jobs but a few months ago I was using this approach for about 1500 email accounts. I'd say we were blocking 95% of the spam. Some users went from 50+ a day to 2 a week.
Probably. However buring oil releases CO2 that was for a very long time trapped in the ground, creating a problem because now their is more in the atmosphere.
Burning plants is different because the CO2 they give off originally came from the atmosphere so you're just putting it back not adding to the overall total.
I should have been more clear. I was speaking specifically of the housing rate. Housing rates aren't tied as closely to the federal rate. In fact the housing rates drop some in the short term when the federal rate goes up (don't ask me why but I actually go a better deal on my home purchase last year because of it).
Anyway, yes the rates for home purchases will rise but it simply can't happen overnight even if the federal rates did skyrocket overnight. Plus people who have their rates locked in shouldn't have too much to worry about. Unless 90% of the population loses their job.
1. Probably will happen to some extent, and in some ways it probably needs to. I would prefer that our money was based on something a bit more concrete.
2. This I have a harder time with. Our GDP is still the largest in the world. If some countries pull out, the countries left stand to make more money in the long run IMHO.
3. If there is a panic, but I have a hard time seeing that as I stated in 2.
4. Interest rates are going up, this is true but it will happen gradually. People dumb enough to get variable rate loans will suffer the most as their rates get hiked, though that won't happen overnight. The variable rate mortgages I know of have provisions where they can't go up at all for the first x number of years and have a limit on how much they can go up per year after that, so most people are going to at least have fair warning, and if they are smart they will refinance with a fixed rate before the rates get too high to afford.
5. Only if the interest rates go up overnight. They aren't going to.
6. Doubtful. Even if the real-estate market collapsed doesn't mean the money isn't going to go into something else.
7. It won't as long as we can avoid panicing.
8. And you "read" this somewhere. What on someone's leftist blog? They will be long gone before anything like this happens.
9. or not.
10, 11. So get out of debt now and take advantage of it. Honestly though why would "the rich" buy into real estate. If people can't afford to keep their houses (even when many many people have low rate fixed mortgages) how are they going to afford rent? If the interest rates are so high the owners of the property are going to pass that cost on to the renter. Besides if the prices go way down that offsets the high interest rates. 90%? please. I guess that depends on your definition of "the rich". You do realize that in the US we are all fricking filthy rich right? Most of us just bad at managing our money. Honestly in some ways I wish your scenerio would come true because it might actually get people to start being more responsible and stop buying so much garbage from China.
Web developer extension shows you style, table, form, it can even outline them for you Whatever information you want about a page, its there. If you actually want to edit the standalone editor is available.
Firefox has sidebars as well
Edit->Preferences is there in Linux (personally I prefer Tools->Options but whatever)
All the tools you listed are there by default except for "Translate Page" but I'm sure there is an extension to add it.
There is an option to use the old file dialog instead of the download manager
Now, now, while Linux is definitly not "ready for the desktop" no matter how many of the zealots tell you it is, I really can't say that it "takes all available free time to assemble some usable 'free desktop'".
I got so sick of hearing this that I actually decided to put it to a test.
First of all you have to define what "ready for the desktop" even means. Does it mean that Joe User can sit down and use it? Does it mean that it can be installed and its ready to go?
My dad, my mom, my wife and several of my friends have been able to sit down at my computer and check their email without too much problems. And I use Blackbox WM! All I had to do tell them to right click, they found Firefox, AIM, and OpenOffice without difficulty. Also out of the box Fedora takes me about 40 minutes to get up and running and about 20 after that while it downloads and installs updates. The last time I did Windows XP it took about 2 hours to get up and running because I had to find the correct hardware disks and dig around for a correct driver on a manufactuerer's site and then it took another 2 hours to get all the updates installed. Most of which I had to sit beside it and answer questions instead of the machine just doing it. So basically 4 hours for WinXP and 1 hour for Fedora.
People complaining about Linux not being ready for the desktop are used to windows and don't want to learn the differences.
I'm far more puzzled by the popularity of debit cards. If stuff happens it's YOUR money that's gone, so YOU have to be the one working your butt off trying to get your money back.
Errr... no. Debit cards have real credit card numbers too (and have the credit card type on them as well), so that it all works on the same system. Your "credit limit" is just whatever you have sitting in the bank. If someone cheats me, I call my bank and they stop payment just like they would a check. Same if I lose my card, etc. etc.
The better solution is to use 0.0.0.0 (null route) in your no-ad hosts file. That way your browser never even looks at the localhost and you can run a webserver without any problems.
If you have anything to do at all the administration of your mail server then I would suggest looking into greylisting. Has helped tremendously with the volume of spam I receive to the server I admin because it forces spammers to use a single point to send spam from (a point which you can identify).
Also ClamAV can be used to scan incoming email on the server side and has definitions for many phishing attacks as well as worms and viruses.
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"What?" shriek the Slashbots, "If hot Brazilian chicks can't view the message HTML, traceroute the links and the redirects and WHOIS the resulting information, they shouldn't be allowed to use computers!" Perhaps, and perhaps me neither, but it doesn't surprise me that people get burned.
No, people who shouldn't be allowed to use computers are the ones who can't read and or listen. The warning has been the same: from eBay and the banks themselves, to ISPs to even the mainstream media "We will never ask for your account information by email, if someone does they are not us, DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION VIA E-MAIL or by sites you clicked on in a link in an email".
Its not hard, and the warning is everywhere but its like people get these emails and to smart switch goes off. I don't get it.
Sure the function names are varying, but that can be fixed eventually
At the expense of backward compatability. Who's going to pay to rewrite all that code?
Hehe, I suppose I should link to my friend's rendition of the farse
(sorry, shameless plug I know)
On the episode 2 dvd, there are some deleted scenes between Anakin and Padme, that I think really would have added to the movie in helping to explain why exactly she was falling in love with Anakin.
:)
Exactly! I'm glad someone else noticed this. Those scenes (and the removal of a couple like the 'surfing' one you mentioned) made the whole romance make so much more sense. Without them Padme goes from 'I hate you' to 'Your the funny little kid I met on Tatooine' to 'I want to jump your bones!'. Nice geek fantasy but not realistic
It takes over ActiveX? Plugs the security holes? Fixes it so that IE supports PNGs and web standards properly? Makes IE render faster?
The problem I have with IE is not the interface, its the fact that it doesn't render valid HTML/CSS correctly and all the security problems. Maxthon doesn't fix those things because they are in the engine.
Its not a browser, its an add-on for IE.
From their website "Based on the IE engine"
diff -u khtml_file apple_file
Just how hard is that???
Granted maybe I'm misunderstanding since the article is Slashdotted but it really sounds to me like this is 'not invented here' syndrome more than Apple doing anything nefarious.
Routers don't automatically send it unless the DNS records specify a wildcard for the domain. Slashdot seem to do this (try foo.slashdot.org)
It can also be specified explicitly, when you do that bar.foo.org can point to a completely different server. I do it this way since I have my hosting for various things all spread out. I could still use a wildcard but I don't really see the need.
I agree they deliver functionality, but functionality isn't software. I can't take the output of Google and recreate what they are doing, i.e. I'm not receiving anything at all other than a response from a server.
To say that someone should make their code available for download because users make use of the software remotely is ludicrus!
Think about it this way: If someone sits down at my computer and uses OpenOffice mean that I have to provide them with the source? What if I don't have it installed? Does that make me in violation of the GPL?
GPL is all about distrobution, period. To make it something else or to try to change the meaning of 'distrobution' is a grave mistake which will hurt Free software in the long run, even if the majority of developers don't go to the new version its only going to take one instance to leave a lot of businesses with a bad taste in their mouth.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. My point was that the author of the article is making the OS install an issue when it isn't.
I think the problem with the package managers is: who do you create the icon for? On Linux everyone's desktop is stored with their home directory, including menus, etc. How does one decide who should get the icon? And if everyone is to get it do you write to everyone's home directories? Even then how do you know what desktop environment/window manager/etc they use.
Until Linux is a simple grandmother-friendly install, desktop Linux is going to stay in the ghetto
No its going to stay in the ghetto until OEMs bundle it. Could your grandmother install Windows?
I'm sick of this "No one uses desktop Linux because its hard to install". Patently untrue, Linux installs are generally easier IMHO, one reboot as opposed to 3 with Windows (and that's not counting updates!).
Software producers don't make business apps or games for Linux because people aren't using Linux.
People aren't using it because it doesn't come bundled and the OEMs don't sell it because the games and the business apps just aren't there. Until someone solves the chicken and the egg problem there won't be a lot of Linux desktop growth.
Honeslty that's fine with me. Linux works on my desktop and does what I need it to do. I've also gotten it to work fine on several laptops I don't know what this author's problem is!
I use a triple approach of greylisting, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Spam and viruses gone. I've since changed jobs but a few months ago I was using this approach for about 1500 email accounts. I'd say we were blocking 95% of the spam. Some users went from 50+ a day to 2 a week.
Why do you need PhotoShop when you can just use GIMP?
*runs from ensuing GIMP vs PS flamewar*
As has been said multiple times in this thread now:
Plants pull carbon from the atmosphere, not the ground.
If you're going to troll at least do it in the right thread! ;-)
Probably. However buring oil releases CO2 that was for a very long time trapped in the ground, creating a problem because now their is more in the atmosphere.
Burning plants is different because the CO2 they give off originally came from the atmosphere so you're just putting it back not adding to the overall total.
A valid point, except that if you RTFA you would notice that grass doesn't need fertilizer to grow.
columns are easy.
/* required so you can clear your floats but you can make it invisible */
div.column {
height: auto;
width: 30%;
margin: 0% 2% 0% 1%;
float: left;
}
div.bottom {
width: 100%;
clear: both;
}
Make 3 divs each with the column class and they will magically become columns. Set your width as appropriate (this even works in IE BTW).
I should have been more clear. I was speaking specifically of the housing rate. Housing rates aren't tied as closely to the federal rate. In fact the housing rates drop some in the short term when the federal rate goes up (don't ask me why but I actually go a better deal on my home purchase last year because of it).
Anyway, yes the rates for home purchases will rise but it simply can't happen overnight even if the federal rates did skyrocket overnight. Plus people who have their rates locked in shouldn't have too much to worry about. Unless 90% of the population loses their job.
1. Probably will happen to some extent, and in some ways it probably needs to. I would prefer that our money was based on something a bit more concrete.
2. This I have a harder time with. Our GDP is still the largest in the world. If some countries pull out, the countries left stand to make more money in the long run IMHO.
3. If there is a panic, but I have a hard time seeing that as I stated in 2.
4. Interest rates are going up, this is true but it will happen gradually. People dumb enough to get variable rate loans will suffer the most as their rates get hiked, though that won't happen overnight. The variable rate mortgages I know of have provisions where they can't go up at all for the first x number of years and have a limit on how much they can go up per year after that, so most people are going to at least have fair warning, and if they are smart they will refinance with a fixed rate before the rates get too high to afford.
5. Only if the interest rates go up overnight. They aren't going to.
6. Doubtful. Even if the real-estate market collapsed doesn't mean the money isn't going to go into something else.
7. It won't as long as we can avoid panicing.
8. And you "read" this somewhere. What on someone's leftist blog? They will be long gone before anything like this happens.
9. or not.
10, 11. So get out of debt now and take advantage of it. Honestly though why would "the rich" buy into real estate. If people can't afford to keep their houses (even when many many people have low rate fixed mortgages) how are they going to afford rent? If the interest rates are so high the owners of the property are going to pass that cost on to the renter. Besides if the prices go way down that offsets the high interest rates. 90%? please. I guess that depends on your definition of "the rich". You do realize that in the US we are all fricking filthy rich right? Most of us just bad at managing our money. Honestly in some ways I wish your scenerio would come true because it might actually get people to start being more responsible and stop buying so much garbage from China.
Now, now, while Linux is definitly not "ready for the desktop" no matter how many of the zealots tell you it is, I really can't say that it "takes all available free time to assemble some usable 'free desktop'".
I got so sick of hearing this that I actually decided to put it to a test.
First of all you have to define what "ready for the desktop" even means. Does it mean that Joe User can sit down and use it? Does it mean that it can be installed and its ready to go?
My dad, my mom, my wife and several of my friends have been able to sit down at my computer and check their email without too much problems. And I use Blackbox WM! All I had to do tell them to right click, they found Firefox, AIM, and OpenOffice without difficulty. Also out of the box Fedora takes me about 40 minutes to get up and running and about 20 after that while it downloads and installs updates. The last time I did Windows XP it took about 2 hours to get up and running because I had to find the correct hardware disks and dig around for a correct driver on a manufactuerer's site and then it took another 2 hours to get all the updates installed. Most of which I had to sit beside it and answer questions instead of the machine just doing it. So basically 4 hours for WinXP and 1 hour for Fedora.
People complaining about Linux not being ready for the desktop are used to windows and don't want to learn the differences.
I'm far more puzzled by the popularity of debit cards. If stuff happens it's YOUR money that's gone, so YOU have to be the one working your butt off trying to get your money back.
... no. Debit cards have real credit card numbers too (and have the credit card type on them as well), so that it all works on the same system. Your "credit limit" is just whatever you have sitting in the bank. If someone cheats me, I call my bank and they stop payment just like they would a check. Same if I lose my card, etc. etc.
Errr
The better solution is to use 0.0.0.0 (null route) in your no-ad hosts file. That way your browser never even looks at the localhost and you can run a webserver without any problems.
If you have anything to do at all the administration of your mail server then I would suggest looking into greylisting. Has helped tremendously with the volume of spam I receive to the server I admin because it forces spammers to use a single point to send spam from (a point which you can identify).
Also ClamAV can be used to scan incoming email on the server side and has definitions for many phishing attacks as well as worms and viruses.