Because then Google (or whoever) would have to already have checked the exact URL. If Google hasn't checked the URL, the hash won't be able to tell them what they should be checking. Furthermore, if Google _has_ already checked the URL and has it's associated hash, Google can easily match the hash you are sending to the URL that they already checked, so they still have the exact same information.
Also, if someone is generating random characters at the end of each URL they send out as a spam email, then hash matching wouldn't work. Hashing the hostname portion might work around this though.
Even during the rest of the year we frequently get calls from somebody that isn't on the other end of the phone, usually all I get is a click and several seconds of silence. Those I just hang up on, if they can't be bothered to be present when I answer, I'm certainly not going to consider it important enough to wait for them to come to the phone. A better solution is to _not_ hang up, because once you hang up it frees a phone line for them to call someone else, every second you keep the line open reduces their call rate, which reduces the money they make. I frequently ask telemarketers to "hold on just a second" and put the phone on the table for like 5 minutes. Amusingly, sometimes the telemarketer is still there waiting, in which case I tell them "sorry, I'll be just one more second" and go about whatever I was doing for another 5-10 minutes.
Compiz will be appalling over VNC unless you have very good network, however with a recent X.org release containing working AIGLX support (or an old SGI workstation), it will work nicely over remote X11. Performance over VNC isn't that much different than without compiz, at least that's my experience over my local network. The biggest difference is that you can't use XDamage, which I think makes for polling larger screen areas, but other than that it's fine. Some animation effects you won't see, because they happen faster than the usual VNC refresh, but you don't really miss them. I'm sure running a remote X application on a local X server running compiz would work fine, but as I use VNC from a Windows box, that's not really an option for me.
Another reason why I don't want Aero is I do a hell of a lot of RDP'ing and you can't get Aero over RDP. Really? I'm kind of surprised by that, I know on Linux Compiz will still work over VNC (at least using x11vnc server).
Actually all of your complains sound like you're a candidate for trying Linux:
ALSO Aero seemed to offer no real actual benefits to usability, sadly I have to admit after using Mac OSX that the whole expose thing is surprisingly awesome and convienient, that operating system truely makes a mouse user damn near as powerful as a good keyboarder (wow!) Aero's flip 3D however was ridiculously bad at actually saving you time and effort. Compiz's Scale plugin works like expose, you also have a choice of 4 task switchers.
The search functionality wasn't as good as locate32, I think in file names, not in contents, if I want my CV I search for *resume*.doc on all drives and I'll find it because I memorise the file name (admitedly locate32 isn't native to XP) Again lots of choices, I use Beagle and Deskbar, which can search by file name or content (and even non-files like email or IM sessions).
I dislike the smaller 'stylish' min / max / close buttons at the top right, I like them square and easy to find. Linux has more window decoration styles than you can shake a stick at, including knockoffs of Windows Classic, Luna, Aero and MacOSX.
I disliked the breadcrumb style address bar in folders at the top of explorer, admitedly just today someone found a home made patch to disable it but it's not a stock option in Vista and wasn't available when I tried it. Nautilus (Gnome's file manager) has both, with a simple button to change between breadcrumbs and text field.
IIRC, I read somewhere that it is that all of the dromaeosaurids were very, very, closely related to birds and might actually have been flightless birds, having descended from that first bird (the one with the unpronouncable name). "ar-kee-OP-ter-iks" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx
Conventional lasers use electricity or chemical reaction to stimulate radiation emission from some material. I would assume they are going to use the gamma rays to do this, and not lasing the gamma rays themselves.
OO.o Writer cold-startup is about 3 seconds for me, 1-2 seconds for warm-startup. MS Word 2003 cold-startup is also about 3 seconds, warm-startup in about 1 second. I suspect that much of people's observed startup times for OpenOffice.org are reading the executable from the disk into memory.
Your issues require either brand new features or major re-writes of features. The "adapt row height" slowness is more likely a bug fix or simple optimization, which wouldn't take as long.
I'm running Gutsy with OpenOffice 2.3, it's even faster than 2.2 was on Feisty. I'm not sure if this is because of OO.o, or improvements in other parts of the OS.
It's important to remember that current GPS satellites are basically solar powered iPod shuffles with atomic clocks It seems that the Air Force has figured out how to weaponize Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field. Now instead of threatening to turn the middle east into radioactive glass, we can threaten to turn it into shiny white plastic. Finally world domination that "Just Works".
So..... McBride is blaming competition? Yes, apparently nobody ever told Darl that competing was a viable business model, he thought litigating was the only way.
And "we got outcompeted by X, Y and Z" is a pretty damn common reason. Sure sounds better than "We abandoned product X to sell product Y. Then other companies proved that selling product X was more profitable than selling product Y. We then spent a whole bunch of money suing those companies for selling product X and our own customers for using product X without paying us for our product Y, only to be told we didn't actually own product Y, and owed ass-loads of money to Company Z."
neglect of Lotus Notes (where is the Linux client???) Lotus Notes 8 has a Linux client. It's actually build on top of the open-source Eclipse platform.
That's not a lacking in feature, it's a difference in workflow. You can't say that a product is objectively inferior simply because the process of accomplishing the same task is different.
Here is something to keep in mind when using Calc, it treats operations as operations on data, not locations. In Excel, when you "cut" a row, it cuts the row itself. That is why Excel will copy the data to the clipboard and delete the row and shift others up. In Calc, when you "cut" a row, it cuts the data in that row. That is why Calc will copy the data to the clipboard and only clear the row, not deleting it and shifting others up. That is also why in order to "Insert Cut Cells" in Calc, you first have to insert a row, then paste your "cut" data into it.
So to accomplish your task, this is the process in Calc: Select row 5, right-click and select cut, right-click and select "Delete row". Select row 1 and right-click and select "Insert row", right-click and select "Paste". Sure the process is different, and in this case twice as long, but that just makes Calc "different", not "inferior". If you find yourself performing this task so often that it makes Calc "inferior" in your mind, you probably need to rethink your workflow, or if a spreadsheet is really the appropriate tool for what you are trying to do.
Followup: If you are like me and hate using context (right-click) menus for these simple things, in Calc you can go to Tools->Customize to set keyboard shortcuts. I have set Ctrl+Delete to "Delete Cells" and Ctrl+Insert to "Insert Cells Down". This makes your process: Select row 5, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Delete. Select row 1, Ctrl+Insert, Ctrl+v. I haven't found a way to modify keyboard shortcuts in Excel.
Those "loud-mouthed minority" are the early-adopters, technology enthusiasts and decision makers for whole IT departments, so yeah, they should be listened to. Brand is the most important thing a company can sell, and you don't do that by pissing of the people who are going to spend the most time talking about you with potential customers.
But then he would have to reselect them when he wanted to update from them, my solution further down the thread does what he wants with minimal hassle.
Repeat after me, "I will never ever again use the words slashdot and efficiency in the same sentence." I would, but repeating that statement would immediately violate it.
That would install any updates, not just critical/security related updates. He said he wants security patches automatically installed, he doesn't necessarily want to update all of Gnome.
Actually the fact that I can't figure out how to make Ubuntu do it truly automatically is a lingering sticking point I have with using Ubuntu because I have a few systems I just don't log into all that often. 1.) Open System->Administration->Software Sources 2.) Select "Updates" tab. 3.) Under "Automatic Updates", select the "Install security updates without confirmation" radio button.
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Because then Google (or whoever) would have to already have checked the exact URL. If Google hasn't checked the URL, the hash won't be able to tell them what they should be checking. Furthermore, if Google _has_ already checked the URL and has it's associated hash, Google can easily match the hash you are sending to the URL that they already checked, so they still have the exact same information.
Also, if someone is generating random characters at the end of each URL they send out as a spam email, then hash matching wouldn't work. Hashing the hostname portion might work around this though.
I think I have 7.3 (running Ubuntu 7.10), I'll give it a try tonight.
Actually all of your complains sound like you're a candidate for trying Linux: ALSO Aero seemed to offer no real actual benefits to usability, sadly I have to admit after using Mac OSX that the whole expose thing is surprisingly awesome and convienient, that operating system truely makes a mouse user damn near as powerful as a good keyboarder (wow!)
Aero's flip 3D however was ridiculously bad at actually saving you time and effort. Compiz's Scale plugin works like expose, you also have a choice of 4 task switchers. The search functionality wasn't as good as locate32, I think in file names, not in contents, if I want my CV I search for *resume*.doc on all drives and I'll find it because I memorise the file name (admitedly locate32 isn't native to XP) Again lots of choices, I use Beagle and Deskbar, which can search by file name or content (and even non-files like email or IM sessions). I dislike the smaller 'stylish' min / max / close buttons at the top right, I like them square and easy to find. Linux has more window decoration styles than you can shake a stick at, including knockoffs of Windows Classic, Luna, Aero and MacOSX. I disliked the breadcrumb style address bar in folders at the top of explorer, admitedly just today someone found a home made patch to disable it but it's not a stock option in Vista and wasn't available when I tried it. Nautilus (Gnome's file manager) has both, with a simple button to change between breadcrumbs and text field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx
Conventional lasers use electricity or chemical reaction to stimulate radiation emission from some material. I would assume they are going to use the gamma rays to do this, and not lasing the gamma rays themselves.
OO.o Writer cold-startup is about 3 seconds for me, 1-2 seconds for warm-startup. MS Word 2003 cold-startup is also about 3 seconds, warm-startup in about 1 second. I suspect that much of people's observed startup times for OpenOffice.org are reading the executable from the disk into memory.
Your issues require either brand new features or major re-writes of features. The "adapt row height" slowness is more likely a bug fix or simple optimization, which wouldn't take as long.
I'm running Gutsy with OpenOffice 2.3, it's even faster than 2.2 was on Feisty. I'm not sure if this is because of OO.o, or improvements in other parts of the OS.
That's not a lacking in feature, it's a difference in workflow. You can't say that a product is objectively inferior simply because the process of accomplishing the same task is different.
Here is something to keep in mind when using Calc, it treats operations as operations on data, not locations. In Excel, when you "cut" a row, it cuts the row itself. That is why Excel will copy the data to the clipboard and delete the row and shift others up. In Calc, when you "cut" a row, it cuts the data in that row. That is why Calc will copy the data to the clipboard and only clear the row, not deleting it and shifting others up. That is also why in order to "Insert Cut Cells" in Calc, you first have to insert a row, then paste your "cut" data into it.
So to accomplish your task, this is the process in Calc: Select row 5, right-click and select cut, right-click and select "Delete row". Select row 1 and right-click and select "Insert row", right-click and select "Paste". Sure the process is different, and in this case twice as long, but that just makes Calc "different", not "inferior". If you find yourself performing this task so often that it makes Calc "inferior" in your mind, you probably need to rethink your workflow, or if a spreadsheet is really the appropriate tool for what you are trying to do.
Followup: If you are like me and hate using context (right-click) menus for these simple things, in Calc you can go to Tools->Customize to set keyboard shortcuts. I have set Ctrl+Delete to "Delete Cells" and Ctrl+Insert to "Insert Cells Down". This makes your process: Select row 5, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Delete. Select row 1, Ctrl+Insert, Ctrl+v. I haven't found a way to modify keyboard shortcuts in Excel.
Already posted that down-thread, but thanks.
Those "loud-mouthed minority" are the early-adopters, technology enthusiasts and decision makers for whole IT departments, so yeah, they should be listened to. Brand is the most important thing a company can sell, and you don't do that by pissing of the people who are going to spend the most time talking about you with potential customers.
But then he would have to reselect them when he wanted to update from them, my solution further down the thread does what he wants with minimal hassle.
That would install any updates, not just critical/security related updates. He said he wants security patches automatically installed, he doesn't necessarily want to update all of Gnome.
2.) Select "Updates" tab.
3.) Under "Automatic Updates", select the "Install security updates without confirmation" radio button.
Wrong, their choice has to depend on which group is louder, in which case the latter is orders of magnitude more, and MS has made a PR blunder.
That could take hours, bitching takes mere seconds. Here on /. we strive for efficiency, not accuracy.
It may be installed by default, but is it running? I seem to remember having to opt-in to have my package use reported back to Canonical.