Not all are like that though. Mine are completely restricted from the world with everything going through a proxy. It's very annoying because almost every outgoing port known to man is cut off, although it's not especially hard to get around. Now if you connected to my uni's VPN, then you'd have a publicly facing ip, but a non-static one, although I wouldn't be surprised to there being logs somewhere of who, when and which though.
I agree to an extent. The speed of live maps annoys me (certainly when I first used it, it has been a while) but their birds eye view feature is a nice one. More competition and another companies attempt at the same idea is always a good thing in the long run, however it has been my experience that some are certainly better than others at bringing new life to the same problem.
What makes them pathetic isn't that they don't come up with an original idea, that's how progress is made. It's the fact that often they don't improve on the original idea, or somehow implement it worse. Not always, just often.....
Doesn't work with the versions I'm using for some reason.
Also, I'd like it so that I never have to type something different. With most of the systems I'm using typing "emacs" will only bring up the console version, except the occasional networks where it doesn't and it drives me up the wall. So I want a permanent setting on those networks local to m user that stops it using the X version when typing emacs. Cheers btw..
One thing I'd like to know how to do is to stop emacs from ever loading an X window.
I do a lot of work over ssh and sometimes need X-forwarding to be on. Unfortunately this means by default that emacs will load in an X window taking easily 30 seconds longer to load. I know the command emacs-nox but that's a bitch to type especially when you're in the habit of typing emacs. I do not have any root access to the machines being used so I can't install just emacs-nox.
So, does anyone know of any script or setting I can change for my account only that would prevent this?
Damage to electronics due to water is actually due to unexpected circuits forming and burning out components.
Not entirely true. I've had component links rust away when my wireless keyboard experienced the day from hell. I'm not saying this is the only possible problem but it certainly is one of them. Then again I've also spilt water over other things in the past and dried them out really quickly and they still worked so there is always still a chance. But the longer it's left wet, the less likely it is to work..
Just because you disagree with me does not make my points illegitimate. You clearly haven't played any recent games, and you know nothing of my work. Wake up and smell the times, just because you can get by using a piddly ol 56k connection doesn't mean the rest of the world should.
There is one hell of a lot of legal content on the internet that require a connection greater than 128 kbps. Saying youtube is watchable at that rate is just lunacy, you may enjoy waiting for it to buffer the whole time but I don't particularly, and the fact of the matter is that it is now unnecessary. What about computer gaming? And don't give me that bullshit of "you're at university to study" because whilst that's true, I'm also here to live my life and enjoy my time!
Saying that the university provides you with free internet is also a bunch of crap! I pay for my university accommodation and included in that price is the internet connection along with a few other bills. Just because it's all rolled into one big number doesn't mean I'm not paying for it! And yes, my rent is a fair amount larger than that of a private flat because of this.
You are right in saying that the college internet is not for stealing movies etc. but it sure as hell is not for the sole purpose of learning! If all I used my connection for was learning I would go insane, I have the right to use it for whatever the hell I want to within the law, and not to be capped because some dick like you thinks I don't need it.
You claim to use a 50k line, good for you. Last time I used a 50k line I was close to pulling my hair out just trying to look at the holiday photo's my parents sent me. I do a lot of hard work at university and often I need a five minute break just browsing something to calm me down, cheer me up and using such a slow line turns taking a five minute break into looking at 2 pages! That's really gonna relax me.
Next, what about research?? You claim to never have done any work from your dorm. Y'know what, I believe you, but I also want to ask you what your grades were when you came out.. Just because you didn't do any work when you come back home doesn't mean others don't. I often have to upload a few gigs of training data, benchmarks, legal software, anything else that I've been working on for the last 3 years and doing that over a slow line would take hours/days. Hours/days that could be spent running said benchmarks and then using the data they create. I have no plan s of being in the labs till 10pm every night just because you think I shouldn't be working on these things from home.
And then the updates. You've gotta be fuckin kidding me! Just leave it on overnight ey? Yeah I really sleep well with a nice whirring fan in the background. Way to save power there too by the way, sod the environment, every time ubuntu releases and update I'll just leave it on. Hell, it'll end up being online 24/7!! Genius!
Long and ranting and probably flamebait I know, but jesus man, get a fucking clue!! If people didn't need fast connections they would not exist. Just because someone is a student who is paying for everything they use doesn't make them second class to you.
I liked opera mobile back when I gave it a test and I would use it if it weren't for one thing, no mouse cursor. Because of this I frequently found links that I just could not get at no matter what combination of directions I tried to get at them.
I didn't think I'd like having a mouse cursor on my mobile, but the integrated browser has one and it actually makes life so much easier when trying to get at some links. The scrolling around does get a little repetitive with having to click constantly to get the cursor to move, or press and hold and overshoot, but it's a big step up from not being able to get at links.
A typo makes something non-standards compliant. Missing/not closing a tag makes it non-standards compliant. There's no question of fairness about it, it's just fact.
Trying to make your page standards compliant (or as close to as you can without breaking the shittier of web browsers) is a good thing to do, but there are easy ways of checking if it is or not, so the laziness not to correct the typo/close the tag is the writers problem, not the standards makers.
Exactly the same phone. I haven't ever been able to download any updates for it yet either although that hasn't been an issue. Only thing I've needed to update was the mobile push client because of a memory leak, and that's third party stuff provided by my operator...
Same here with both. Unsurprisingly the Real Player on my phone is a steaming pile of shit that won't even allow me to tell it the url of the file I want to play, and instead I have to find a link to it on the phones web browser and have it pass that!! Want to open a streaming mp3? Fat chance, it'll try and save the never ending file instead and then get confused as to why it's ran out of memory!!
Adobe Acrobat on my phone however is a lifesaver and works fine for me. I use it almost on a daily basis to read my timetable when I'm on the bus and realise I don't know where I'm heading to at uni. Granted similar issues as above though but much more useful.
Yup, my secondary school (high school for you Americans) had it installed on a load of 186's. And if I remember correctly they were on a token ring connected to a 286 as the server!!
Can't quite remember why they were networked or indeed why we had them because you literally couldn't do anything except use an ancient version of paint. Either that or if you worked out how to get into DOS there was an rpg although if you were caught playing it you were banned! Ah, good times..
Sods law they upgraded them the year I left in 1996!!!
I can't think of that many that have made it quite so obvious what their software does. From what I can tell Real Networks has been quite cheeky about this. By pulling RealDVD they are going by the books. They want to hit the MPAA where it hurts and you cannot do that without following things to the letter. If the article cited above is correct, then it means that Real Networks started the lawsuit and hence got to choose the court. By choosing the court they effectively get to choose the law and that is a big plus as far as any case of this manner goes. I have long disapproved of real networks for performance/stability/buffering reasons, however this is something they are attempting for the better of everyone, and I salute them for it.
she's just shifting the emissions to a power plant
I don't know about you but having one source of pollution in one location seems much easier to make efficient or to try and cut back on emissions from, that to have millions of poorly maintained ones dotted around the country. And what's to stop the power station from being/becoming emission free.
I don't claim for this to be a solveall, but this is a step in the right direction, albeit an expensive one for now.
255 = (2 ^ 8) - 1, or two to the power eight minus one.
It's the maximum number that can be made with 8 bits in binary, and hence eight wires between to different chips at the hardware level. Instead of going to 999, it would have to either be:
(2 ^ 9) - 1 = 511 or
(2 ^ 10) - 1 = 1023
else you'd just be wasting a large section available bandwidth.
That's not the issue here, the circumstances don't match.. If you buy something from a store you get a hard copy of the cd/dvd. You break it, tough luck.
When it comes to pc's, it's often not us that break them, or you want to upgrade or you've ran out of space. With this method they force you to lose your purchases with no possible way to transfer them, back them up to some form of removable media (the normal way people create more space on their computer) or redownload them. If you can't back them up and you have no space you HAVE to delete them, they are giving you no choice in the matter. These situations are unavoidable with a pc and if you provide a download service you should at least either provide unlimited downloads of your material, or you should be able to back them up easily (and legally).
At the moment my grandma is being taught to use the internet, we've taught her the basics of browsing and security, but there are so many things for her to keep track of that some are forgotten from time to time. It's not her fault as this is a completely new experience for her and I wouldn't expect her to be able to remember everything. Whilst the blacklist causes certain (in my opinion acceptable) drawbacks such as this, I'd much rather she had that little extra bit of protection. Calling it a dumb idea is dumb itself, it's not foolproof and can certainly be considered an inconvenience, but it's not dumb. And if the user is smart enough to work without it then they, like you, can turn it off, it's not as if they make that hard to do..
Remember to ask that question again the next time a dog bites you.
Yeah the proto-mouse may be small, but whats not to say that the mouse is much faster than the turkey so it can't catch it. The bigger the target, the easier to bite. Whether or not it penetrates the skin is a different matter.
Slashdot Mirror
Not all are like that though. Mine are completely restricted from the world with everything going through a proxy. It's very annoying because almost every outgoing port known to man is cut off, although it's not especially hard to get around. Now if you connected to my uni's VPN, then you'd have a publicly facing ip, but a non-static one, although I wouldn't be surprised to there being logs somewhere of who, when and which though.
I agree to an extent. The speed of live maps annoys me (certainly when I first used it, it has been a while) but their birds eye view feature is a nice one. More competition and another companies attempt at the same idea is always a good thing in the long run, however it has been my experience that some are certainly better than others at bringing new life to the same problem.
What makes them pathetic isn't that they don't come up with an original idea, that's how progress is made. It's the fact that often they don't improve on the original idea, or somehow implement it worse. Not always, just often.....
Wonderful, I didn't know about aliases so I've set up a permanent one and it works hunky dory. Cheers.
$ emacs -nx
This is not a different binary, simply a flag.
Doesn't work with the versions I'm using for some reason. Also, I'd like it so that I never have to type something different. With most of the systems I'm using typing "emacs" will only bring up the console version, except the occasional networks where it doesn't and it drives me up the wall. So I want a permanent setting on those networks local to m user that stops it using the X version when typing emacs. Cheers btw..
One thing I'd like to know how to do is to stop emacs from ever loading an X window.
I do a lot of work over ssh and sometimes need X-forwarding to be on. Unfortunately this means by default that emacs will load in an X window taking easily 30 seconds longer to load. I know the command emacs-nox but that's a bitch to type especially when you're in the habit of typing emacs. I do not have any root access to the machines being used so I can't install just emacs-nox.
So, does anyone know of any script or setting I can change for my account only that would prevent this?
Damage to electronics due to water is actually due to unexpected circuits forming and burning out components.
Not entirely true. I've had component links rust away when my wireless keyboard experienced the day from hell. I'm not saying this is the only possible problem but it certainly is one of them. Then again I've also spilt water over other things in the past and dried them out really quickly and they still worked so there is always still a chance. But the longer it's left wet, the less likely it is to work..
Just because you disagree with me does not make my points illegitimate. You clearly haven't played any recent games, and you know nothing of my work. Wake up and smell the times, just because you can get by using a piddly ol 56k connection doesn't mean the rest of the world should.
Dude, you don't have a fucking clue!!
There is one hell of a lot of legal content on the internet that require a connection greater than 128 kbps. Saying youtube is watchable at that rate is just lunacy, you may enjoy waiting for it to buffer the whole time but I don't particularly, and the fact of the matter is that it is now unnecessary. What about computer gaming? And don't give me that bullshit of "you're at university to study" because whilst that's true, I'm also here to live my life and enjoy my time!
Saying that the university provides you with free internet is also a bunch of crap! I pay for my university accommodation and included in that price is the internet connection along with a few other bills. Just because it's all rolled into one big number doesn't mean I'm not paying for it! And yes, my rent is a fair amount larger than that of a private flat because of this.
You are right in saying that the college internet is not for stealing movies etc. but it sure as hell is not for the sole purpose of learning! If all I used my connection for was learning I would go insane, I have the right to use it for whatever the hell I want to within the law, and not to be capped because some dick like you thinks I don't need it.
You claim to use a 50k line, good for you. Last time I used a 50k line I was close to pulling my hair out just trying to look at the holiday photo's my parents sent me. I do a lot of hard work at university and often I need a five minute break just browsing something to calm me down, cheer me up and using such a slow line turns taking a five minute break into looking at 2 pages! That's really gonna relax me.
Next, what about research?? You claim to never have done any work from your dorm. Y'know what, I believe you, but I also want to ask you what your grades were when you came out.. Just because you didn't do any work when you come back home doesn't mean others don't. I often have to upload a few gigs of training data, benchmarks, legal software, anything else that I've been working on for the last 3 years and doing that over a slow line would take hours/days. Hours/days that could be spent running said benchmarks and then using the data they create. I have no plan s of being in the labs till 10pm every night just because you think I shouldn't be working on these things from home.
And then the updates. You've gotta be fuckin kidding me! Just leave it on overnight ey? Yeah I really sleep well with a nice whirring fan in the background. Way to save power there too by the way, sod the environment, every time ubuntu releases and update I'll just leave it on. Hell, it'll end up being online 24/7!! Genius!
Long and ranting and probably flamebait I know, but jesus man, get a fucking clue!! If people didn't need fast connections they would not exist. Just because someone is a student who is paying for everything they use doesn't make them second class to you.
I liked opera mobile back when I gave it a test and I would use it if it weren't for one thing, no mouse cursor. Because of this I frequently found links that I just could not get at no matter what combination of directions I tried to get at them.
I didn't think I'd like having a mouse cursor on my mobile, but the integrated browser has one and it actually makes life so much easier when trying to get at some links. The scrolling around does get a little repetitive with having to click constantly to get the cursor to move, or press and hold and overshoot, but it's a big step up from not being able to get at links.
A typo makes something non-standards compliant. Missing/not closing a tag makes it non-standards compliant. There's no question of fairness about it, it's just fact.
Trying to make your page standards compliant (or as close to as you can without breaking the shittier of web browsers) is a good thing to do, but there are easy ways of checking if it is or not, so the laziness not to correct the typo/close the tag is the writers problem, not the standards makers.
Exactly the same phone. I haven't ever been able to download any updates for it yet either although that hasn't been an issue. Only thing I've needed to update was the mobile push client because of a memory leak, and that's third party stuff provided by my operator...
Same here with both. Unsurprisingly the Real Player on my phone is a steaming pile of shit that won't even allow me to tell it the url of the file I want to play, and instead I have to find a link to it on the phones web browser and have it pass that!! Want to open a streaming mp3? Fat chance, it'll try and save the never ending file instead and then get confused as to why it's ran out of memory!!
Adobe Acrobat on my phone however is a lifesaver and works fine for me. I use it almost on a daily basis to read my timetable when I'm on the bus and realise I don't know where I'm heading to at uni. Granted similar issues as above though but much more useful.
Crap, having re-read my post I meant 2001!! (I started secondary school in 96.... Must learn to actually read the preview!)
Yup, my secondary school (high school for you Americans) had it installed on a load of 186's. And if I remember correctly they were on a token ring connected to a 286 as the server!!
Can't quite remember why they were networked or indeed why we had them because you literally couldn't do anything except use an ancient version of paint. Either that or if you worked out how to get into DOS there was an rpg although if you were caught playing it you were banned! Ah, good times..
Sods law they upgraded them the year I left in 1996!!!
People CAN potentially make phonecalls from a plane. That doesn't mean they should..
I can't think of that many that have made it quite so obvious what their software does. From what I can tell Real Networks has been quite cheeky about this. By pulling RealDVD they are going by the books. They want to hit the MPAA where it hurts and you cannot do that without following things to the letter. If the article cited above is correct, then it means that Real Networks started the lawsuit and hence got to choose the court. By choosing the court they effectively get to choose the law and that is a big plus as far as any case of this manner goes. I have long disapproved of real networks for performance/stability/buffering reasons, however this is something they are attempting for the better of everyone, and I salute them for it.
she's just shifting the emissions to a power plant
I don't know about you but having one source of pollution in one location seems much easier to make efficient or to try and cut back on emissions from, that to have millions of poorly maintained ones dotted around the country. And what's to stop the power station from being/becoming emission free.
I don't claim for this to be a solveall, but this is a step in the right direction, albeit an expensive one for now.
Indeed, they should really treat the evidence as if it were a red herring.
(Hides in shame)
oh my god, i've just suffered a pun overload.
That should be a new tag!!
255 = (2 ^ 8) - 1, or two to the power eight minus one.
It's the maximum number that can be made with 8 bits in binary, and hence eight wires between to different chips at the hardware level. Instead of going to 999, it would have to either be:
(2 ^ 9) - 1 = 511 or
(2 ^ 10) - 1 = 1023
else you'd just be wasting a large section available bandwidth.
Not all of the world runs on the decimal system..
That's not the issue here, the circumstances don't match.. If you buy something from a store you get a hard copy of the cd/dvd. You break it, tough luck.
When it comes to pc's, it's often not us that break them, or you want to upgrade or you've ran out of space. With this method they force you to lose your purchases with no possible way to transfer them, back them up to some form of removable media (the normal way people create more space on their computer) or redownload them. If you can't back them up and you have no space you HAVE to delete them, they are giving you no choice in the matter. These situations are unavoidable with a pc and if you provide a download service you should at least either provide unlimited downloads of your material, or you should be able to back them up easily (and legally).
At the moment my grandma is being taught to use the internet, we've taught her the basics of browsing and security, but there are so many things for her to keep track of that some are forgotten from time to time. It's not her fault as this is a completely new experience for her and I wouldn't expect her to be able to remember everything. Whilst the blacklist causes certain (in my opinion acceptable) drawbacks such as this, I'd much rather she had that little extra bit of protection. Calling it a dumb idea is dumb itself, it's not foolproof and can certainly be considered an inconvenience, but it's not dumb. And if the user is smart enough to work without it then they, like you, can turn it off, it's not as if they make that hard to do..
Ah wonderful, thanks. An amazingly well advertised feature of slashdot ey..
Remember to ask that question again the next time a dog bites you.
Yeah the proto-mouse may be small, but whats not to say that the mouse is much faster than the turkey so it can't catch it. The bigger the target, the easier to bite. Whether or not it penetrates the skin is a different matter.