There is a reason why rallycars have a BRS. Even several potentialy dangerous pieces of industrial equipment have one. Maybe we need things like that if car manufacturers persist in solving hardware solutions in software.
I knew there still is a reason why I have never run windows updates since I installed SP2. I've had infinitely less outages due to virusus and malware than others have had due to windows updates. Namely none. Give me one good reason to update my installation of XP, and especially why I would want to put automatic updates on. I see no use. Really, I don't.
I've tried pressing the brakepedal while keeping the accelerator to the floor in my car. Now, at 100 bhp my car may not be the most powerful, so I don't know what this does in other cars, but I was able to stop my car without any problem in a very reasonable distance.
But I do wonder: why does it take him 50 minutes to pull the handbrake and step on the brakes? Why couldn't he have done this immediately?
Everybody who has ever owned a hifi set knows this problem. Eventually dust will get the better of the volume knob and it will start to behave erraticaly or will give out noise while using it. That's a ground rule of every potentiometer.
And now they want to use these things with cars. After the impossible-to-exchange lightbulbs, the next big cock-up is the electronics.
Well, just look at Renault and you'll know where this will end up.
Few apps cry out for a touch UI, so Microsoft and Apple can continue to get away with merely dabbling with touch as an occasional mouse-based substitute.
On a sufficiently small laptop (like my EeePC), I'd prefer a touch screen over a touchpad anytime. Please, please, please, please just make it standard on machines like that.
Do you trust your accountant to not embezzle from you? Do you trust the rest of your staff to not slack off every time you turn your back?
Do you trust the kitchen staff in the restaurant you ate lunch at to not hork a booger-laden loogie in your lunch?
If it is your own employee, you can fire them if they do something wrong. If it's an external contractor's employee, you can only terminate the contractor's contract, the employee might not loose his job.
So the stakes for your own employees are much higher and therefore they will be much less likely to steal from you.
Also, an employee's first interest is the company they work for. A contractor's employee only works for you in the second degree and they will have much other tasks than only administrating your company. It may be cheaper, but you pay the price for less involvement in your company.
I think you just proved a point I often try to make. It is not the people that made the world gone bad: it is the reporting that did. If there wasn't such a need/want/offer of news, there would be a lot less tragedy in the world. Not necessarily because it doesn't happen less (which I am sure of it will if you consider all the tragedy that is inflicted upon us by governments and dissidents), but especially because we don't know about it.
And this censorship of Wikipedia proves that. If there is no talk about the kidnap of this person, the kidnap has no value to the captors. Therefore they will not likely to kidnap again.
How can Frontpage churn out code like that. There are font tags that aren't closed but end with a td tag. Font face names are loose in the font tag. td tags don't end.
Please, someone tell me that this is hand editted. Please, someone tell me that Frontpage isn't that bad.
My thought exactly. Except in cases where there is some kind of mandatory registration with a key on the box, or the disc is limited to the number of times you can read it, what is the difference between a disc that has been read once before and a disc that has not?
Is this the "I need a virgin" phenomenon?
In my eyes there is a big difference between having your house on the public street as opposed to having your house on internet.
There are only so much people coming through my street. There are billions of people on the internet.
I applaud these people. It is not Google who may or may not decide to publish a 3rd party's property on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter), that decision is for the property's owner to make.
So... they are not the same because in OSX a buttonclick opens a document and in Windows 7 it starts an application. And when closing a windows in OSX you don't close the application.
That seems to me more that you are listing differences between OSX and Windows 7 architecture, not between the dock and the sidebar.
And they're missing the "group similar taskbar buttons" on XP. That's not just a Vista feature.
But well, I still assume they are as similar to eachother as Linux is based on SCO Unix.
Your conclusions are on upload speed only (which may be better because it will not saturate upstream lines as much), but is is sure interesting to note that there even is a negative correlation between upload speed and download speed.
Your Vista Firefox has the lowest upload but the fastest download. Strange...
IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time
I would rather say it was a BIG mistake to let the British like you join the EU. Couldn't you just go away ? Hey, you could joint the US as airstrip one. I'm sure Tony is working on this.
It seems to me that you think I'm British. I'm not.
You do realise that we have to choose between people that come in to work on Friday morning for 5 minutes to collect their daily allowance and then bugger of home and people who want to prosecute whistleblowers?
The EU is the largest assembly of corrupt and indadequate politicians you will ever find.
Nevertheless I will vote. There is some hope in me yet that there will be at least one MP who isn't like that.
IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time.
I was almost going to say that Americans have no taste whatsoever (which is not surprising, seeing that they have no cuisine), but I'm glad that you at least liked the pasta.
What's the fuss? I bought all CD's and ripped then to ogg. I can listen to them on my favourite music player. Maybe the iPod does not support ogg, I don't know, but that's a limitation of the iPod.
I listen to the Beatles regularly via my mp3 player. It's not that hard. Why "finally going digital" if sane people have had them digitally for a long time?
I'm afraid that border has been crossed too already. There are cases where photoexhibitions of naked children were marked as "child pornography".
While I agree with you that the mere display of naked children is nog pornography (OMG! This baby is naked! It's pornography!), there are people among us that think otherwise.
And if a drawing of a child having sex is pornography, then why is a drawing of someone killing someone else not murder?
I couldn't agree more with this. Ok, you could discuss the fact of who should have jurisdiction over the hack of a server in country X, but my position is that the crime was committed in Germany and the FBI has no jurisdiction there
Contrary to a belief which seems to be rather common in the US that their laws are valid all around the world. Guess what: they're not.
Trucks for certain particular uses have been fitted with remote control. I've seen it fitted in a truck that delivers steel plates that you put in worksites to drive on. Of course it would be either very timeconsuming, laying down a plate, then driving the length of the plate to lay down the second, or would be a two-man job to do it otherwise.
So they created a truck that can be driven remotely. It doesn't do 50 mph of course, and has no camera in the RC.
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There is a reason why rallycars have a BRS. Even several potentialy dangerous pieces of industrial equipment have one. Maybe we need things like that if car manufacturers persist in solving hardware solutions in software.
I knew there still is a reason why I have never run windows updates since I installed SP2. I've had infinitely less outages due to virusus and malware than others have had due to windows updates. Namely none. Give me one good reason to update my installation of XP, and especially why I would want to put automatic updates on. I see no use. Really, I don't.
I've tried pressing the brakepedal while keeping the accelerator to the floor in my car. Now, at 100 bhp my car may not be the most powerful, so I don't know what this does in other cars, but I was able to stop my car without any problem in a very reasonable distance.
But I do wonder: why does it take him 50 minutes to pull the handbrake and step on the brakes? Why couldn't he have done this immediately?
Everybody who has ever owned a hifi set knows this problem. Eventually dust will get the better of the volume knob and it will start to behave erraticaly or will give out noise while using it. That's a ground rule of every potentiometer. And now they want to use these things with cars. After the impossible-to-exchange lightbulbs, the next big cock-up is the electronics. Well, just look at Renault and you'll know where this will end up.
In an advisory, Microsoft recommended people use DEP, which by default is enabled in IE 8 but must be turned on in prior versions.
To my knowledge, DEP is a setting in Windows, not in IE. Does Microsoft not know it's own product or is this some different setting?
Few apps cry out for a touch UI, so Microsoft and Apple can continue to get away with merely dabbling with touch as an occasional mouse-based substitute.
On a sufficiently small laptop (like my EeePC), I'd prefer a touch screen over a touchpad anytime. Please, please, please, please just make it standard on machines like that.
Good point.
Do you trust your accountant to not embezzle from you? Do you trust the rest of your staff to not slack off every time you turn your back?
Do you trust the kitchen staff in the restaurant you ate lunch at to not hork a booger-laden loogie in your lunch?
If it is your own employee, you can fire them if they do something wrong. If it's an external contractor's employee, you can only terminate the contractor's contract, the employee might not loose his job.
So the stakes for your own employees are much higher and therefore they will be much less likely to steal from you.
Also, an employee's first interest is the company they work for. A contractor's employee only works for you in the second degree and they will have much other tasks than only administrating your company. It may be cheaper, but you pay the price for less involvement in your company.
I think you just proved a point I often try to make. It is not the people that made the world gone bad: it is the reporting that did. If there wasn't such a need/want/offer of news, there would be a lot less tragedy in the world. Not necessarily because it doesn't happen less (which I am sure of it will if you consider all the tragedy that is inflicted upon us by governments and dissidents), but especially because we don't know about it.
And this censorship of Wikipedia proves that. If there is no talk about the kidnap of this person, the kidnap has no value to the captors. Therefore they will not likely to kidnap again.
How can Frontpage churn out code like that. There are font tags that aren't closed but end with a td tag. Font face names are loose in the font tag. td tags don't end.
Please, someone tell me that this is hand editted. Please, someone tell me that Frontpage isn't that bad.
What a horrendously bad pagedesign. It seems ok with IE, but that's only because it's made with Frontpage. In Firefox it looks absolutely ghastly.
People making such websites should be banned from the internet for life.
Your point being?
Is XP-pre-SP3 so different from XP+SP3 that a vanilla Firefox, compiled for SP3 does not work on pre-SP3 machines?
I mean, apart from the obvious
#ifndef xp-sp3
# exit
#endif
(and XP is from 2001, not 1999 or 2000)
My thought exactly. Except in cases where there is some kind of mandatory registration with a key on the box, or the disc is limited to the number of times you can read it, what is the difference between a disc that has been read once before and a disc that has not?
Is this the "I need a virgin" phenomenon?
> "Your freedom ends where someone else's nose begins" is an old English concept.
Whereas the new English concept would appear to be "Your freedom ends where your nose ends." Or maybe a bit before.
Or rather (seeing new English' actions throughout the world): "Your freedom ends where we say it does."
In my eyes there is a big difference between having your house on the public street as opposed to having your house on internet. There are only so much people coming through my street. There are billions of people on the internet.
I applaud these people. It is not Google who may or may not decide to publish a 3rd party's property on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter), that decision is for the property's owner to make.
So... they are not the same because in OSX a buttonclick opens a document and in Windows 7 it starts an application. And when closing a windows in OSX you don't close the application.
That seems to me more that you are listing differences between OSX and Windows 7 architecture, not between the dock and the sidebar.
And they're missing the "group similar taskbar buttons" on XP. That's not just a Vista feature.
But well, I still assume they are as similar to eachother as Linux is based on SCO Unix.
Your conclusions are on upload speed only (which may be better because it will not saturate upstream lines as much), but is is sure interesting to note that there even is a negative correlation between upload speed and download speed.
Your Vista Firefox has the lowest upload but the fastest download. Strange...
IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time
I would rather say it was a BIG mistake to let the British like you join the EU. Couldn't you just go away ? Hey, you could joint the US as airstrip one. I'm sure Tony is working on this.
It seems to me that you think I'm British. I'm not.
You do realise that we have to choose between people that come in to work on Friday morning for 5 minutes to collect their daily allowance and then bugger of home and people who want to prosecute whistleblowers?
The EU is the largest assembly of corrupt and indadequate politicians you will ever find.
Nevertheless I will vote. There is some hope in me yet that there will be at least one MP who isn't like that.
IMHO the EU has to go. Everything that happened after the EEG has turned out for the worst. Sure we have had the joys of having some of our laws relaxed because if the EU, but the constant interference of what basically are foreign powers in our national politics is what pisses me off big time.
I was almost going to say that Americans have no taste whatsoever (which is not surprising, seeing that they have no cuisine), but I'm glad that you at least liked the pasta.
600 students all having 100 minutes in 180 days gives an average of 5,5 hours of internet each day.
Just bundle them together, set up some kind of wifi and have open internet from 5 pm until 10:30 pm.
What's the fuss? I bought all CD's and ripped then to ogg. I can listen to them on my favourite music player. Maybe the iPod does not support ogg, I don't know, but that's a limitation of the iPod.
I listen to the Beatles regularly via my mp3 player. It's not that hard. Why "finally going digital" if sane people have had them digitally for a long time?
I'm afraid that border has been crossed too already. There are cases where photoexhibitions of naked children were marked as "child pornography".
While I agree with you that the mere display of naked children is nog pornography (OMG! This baby is naked! It's pornography!), there are people among us that think otherwise.
And if a drawing of a child having sex is pornography, then why is a drawing of someone killing someone else not murder?
I couldn't agree more with this. Ok, you could discuss the fact of who should have jurisdiction over the hack of a server in country X, but my position is that the crime was committed in Germany and the FBI has no jurisdiction there
Contrary to a belief which seems to be rather common in the US that their laws are valid all around the world. Guess what: they're not.
Sure they will. It's about time John Cleese becomes the Doctor.
Trucks for certain particular uses have been fitted with remote control. I've seen it fitted in a truck that delivers steel plates that you put in worksites to drive on. Of course it would be either very timeconsuming, laying down a plate, then driving the length of the plate to lay down the second, or would be a two-man job to do it otherwise.
So they created a truck that can be driven remotely. It doesn't do 50 mph of course, and has no camera in the RC.