I know you're being snarky, but if you actually think about it, the address bar really *does* belong under the tab bar.
Yes, because everyone types in addresses much more than clicking on links and switching tabs. I can see your point that in the grand scheme of things the address is directly related to the selected tab, but people are smart enough to handle the concept of data related to the page being every so slightly further away. The point of tabs is to be able to switch between the pages much easier. I and most others do much less typing of addresses than clicking on links to open up new tabs. By having them higher up the user has to make more of an effort to get to the bar hence making the program slower to use overall. I know this is small picky details, but they're the difference between a program that annoys someone or not.
Of course, there are going to be those that feel the other way hence I would be in complete support of a program that gave the user the choice instead, if this doesn't already exist somewhere.
Good point. I'm just so used to using putty on my phone and having it die by the end of the day that any word of phones and encryption and it cries out in disgust.
Whilst this is getting better pretty damn rapidly with newer smartphones, I wouldn't have thought most phones would be able to handle that much encryption. Tis rather processor intensive, killing the battery. Although I guess they could add in extra hardware for the purpose, again killing the battery.
For a lot of people phones should be basic things that make calls, send texts, and not die on them, enryption doesn't even enter their head. With the phone makers, it not about not allowing you to have strong encryption, it's encryption being too resource intensive. Of course not all phone makers have this issue and the likes of the jesus phone should be providing such critical function.
I do agree with you though, so bring on the openmoko, or possibly android...
but even better if people in industry would pay attention!
It's not just people in the industry that need to pay attention. It's those behind the industry giving the legal advice etc.
My girlfriend is a law student and trying to teach her that no DRM will work well is almost impossible. I had a large discussion with her the other night over this, and being a legal mind she tried coming up with solutions to the problem, all of which imposed restrictions on what you could do with the files. Recently my method for convincing her has been to impose these restrictions upon the files she uses, with a lot of success the night that steam decided she wasn't allowed to play her games. This article has helped also by showing many other problems caused, and pointing out that DRM free increases sales was the clincher.
The problem isn't just the people in the industry, it's the people giving them advice that need to listen. Many legal types (not all obviously) are still stuck with the image of if you don't completely control what someone can do they'll completely abuse it and from that they'll design the contracts or licenses to reflect that, and recommend implementing a system that imposes the contract.
I still haven't won the battle with my girlfriend, but I'm getting there faster and faster every time she plays music now
I can imagine it also makes the user much more one-track minded. There's one thing going on in their head and that's the game (which I hope you all just lost). Either that or it'll be the half rolled joint next to them that they're concentrating on.
For the example you gave I typed "cache:http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/.NET/Visual_Studio_.NET_2005/Q_23409852.html" without the quotes, scrolled to the bottom of the page and hey presto. The goods....and as proof test it for yourself
I'd say go worse than that and start with visual basic, (man I'm gonna get modded into oblivion for this one). Certain parts of C etc are way beyond what he needs right now, and vb gives him a familiar environment to begin with. We can convert him to the console later..
With VB the user starts off performing basic frame layout, which is very easy to do, followed by small amounts of code to make each button etc do what its meant to. In the long long time ago that I did vb programming, there were loads of examples and a very good documentation system setup that got me through everything I needed fine, and made it fairly easy for me to find some way of doing something. The use of vb to design a ui is what will hopefully make him think it's really easy to do all of these little annoying tasks and it will produce something he's much more used to dealing with (for now). Console apps are great for us techies, but for a budding techie they can still be a little scary, and actually quite boring..
Next, find something on the computer that pisses him off and home in on it. Go through with him what about it pisses him off, and then suggest ways he could solve this issue by writing a tiny program or script. I started off with writing a media player (using the windows media player plugin *shudder*) because everything on the market at the time was crap, with the likes of musicmatch and everything. It was also in the time when wmp had very limited function and because of this was possibly the best media player they've made. I gradually built up a media player that in the end was pretty advanced for it's time with a full database, reading and parsing of filenames and mp3 tags, and even it's own api used for control across a network, control within between processes, and to allow users to create their own skinned apps.
For me it was the ease of doing things that got me more interested. And from there on in I moved on from the horror that is vb to sensible languages like C, but had it not been for the ui builder in vb it would have been a lot harder and less fun for a teenage boy with a short attention span.
Disclaimer: I have not used nor even seen vb in over 7 years now and I now live and die by the console.
The fact that you have a firewall shows that you have made additional interaction. The firewall didn't come until SP2, and I don't know about anyone else but I tend to call a service pack a patch.
No, the whole point of using super conductors is that the resistance is EXACTLY 0 ohm, not incredibly near. There is no resistance, at all.
Whilst you are correct for direct current voltages (DC), superconducting materials do have a very very small resistance for alternating currents (AC). And at 138kV I'm pretty sure they ain't gonna be using DC..I think it's something to do with the magnetic flux created by the changes in current but I'm not sure..
Blue Energy's method seems more efficient since it uses predictable current, rather than waves, to generate power.
Whilst predictable is highly desirable, it can leaves large gaps in production in between each predicted moment, like tidal for example. You've gotta find something that solves the times in between.
When it comes to waves it's more a matter of probability instead. Stick one out at sea and you've got yourself a fluctuating unreliable power generator based upon the waves at the time. Stick enough of them out there and you're gonna get yourself a relatively constant output, whilst a few of them may have little to no waves, the others will. Slightly unreliable maybe, but all of these systems can't rely upon one source given it fail, and all of these issues can be managed using another alternate power source to level out the peaks etc.
I don't see us ever giving up on non-renewables completely, simply for there reliability when the renewables become unavailable, but I can guarantee you that their usage will slowly become less and less as more and more of these renewable sources are developed.
Why would it be binary? 2 reasons I can come up with,
1: Standard users ain't gonna know how to compile any source they provide, nor would they want to.
2: DRM support? Sad but true I know, but to expect full functionality from a card on linux I expect there to be some proprietary modules in there for DRM support.
Hopefully they'll provide open source drivers for a vast majority of the functionality but I can imagine they'll aim em at more specialist users, and just shove the fully functional binary onto the cd distributed. Who knows, they may partially release the source for the fully functional drivers and just use precompiled binaries for the drm support.
Disclaimer: I have not checked any of this, it's just what I can see happening.
And frankly, I wouldn't want to make it immediately obvious what my IP address was to such a large audience. There's inevitably going to be some jackass that sends a botnet at it. I was about to correct you for thinking there would only be the one jackass, when I realised that slashdot is it's own human botnet..
So by posting his own address, he'd be the jackass unleashing the botnet upon himself..
SOMEONE PLEASE MOD PARENT UP!! (and mod great-grandparent interesting/insightful instead of funny)
I read what he first said and noticed it was modded funny. It isn't funny, it's true!! Just because you've interpreted it as you've given someone root access instead of someone has gained root access does not make what he said any less relevant. It was exactly what I was thinking the moment I read the title of this article...
On their own, no they'll sound amazing. The difference between those and any other type of speaker is very noticable though as every speaker has a different warmth and style of sound to it. It may take an audiophile to notice it, but if you're spending 18k on a setup you're quite likely to be one..
You want preferably the same speakers all round, failing that the same type of driver in every speaker. If you're going to have several different types of speaker you need to put them in every channel to make sure that they have the same sound around the room.
Going beyond that you want arrays of speakers around the room. No one speaker plays one channel of audio, but instead the combination of adjacent channels to make it possible for sound to be coming from any specific location in the room, not just where the speakers are located. Then it becomes essential that the speakers are matched all round.
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I know you're being snarky, but if you actually think about it, the address bar really *does* belong under the tab bar.
Yes, because everyone types in addresses much more than clicking on links and switching tabs. I can see your point that in the grand scheme of things the address is directly related to the selected tab, but people are smart enough to handle the concept of data related to the page being every so slightly further away. The point of tabs is to be able to switch between the pages much easier. I and most others do much less typing of addresses than clicking on links to open up new tabs. By having them higher up the user has to make more of an effort to get to the bar hence making the program slower to use overall. I know this is small picky details, but they're the difference between a program that annoys someone or not.
Of course, there are going to be those that feel the other way hence I would be in complete support of a program that gave the user the choice instead, if this doesn't already exist somewhere.
I can't help but think it may have been this one or the same story on another site..
Good point. I'm just so used to using putty on my phone and having it die by the end of the day that any word of phones and encryption and it cries out in disgust.
Yes but this is one of those high class toilet stalls. Much nicer than your one at home I can assure you.
I just don't pay my bills.. Problem solved. Hang on I think there's someone knocking at the door...
Whilst this is getting better pretty damn rapidly with newer smartphones, I wouldn't have thought most phones would be able to handle that much encryption. Tis rather processor intensive, killing the battery. Although I guess they could add in extra hardware for the purpose, again killing the battery.
For a lot of people phones should be basic things that make calls, send texts, and not die on them, enryption doesn't even enter their head. With the phone makers, it not about not allowing you to have strong encryption, it's encryption being too resource intensive. Of course not all phone makers have this issue and the likes of the jesus phone should be providing such critical function.
I do agree with you though, so bring on the openmoko, or possibly android...
Yes, we all know DRM sucks. and is broken
Very true, many of us know this but not everyone.
but even better if people in industry would pay attention!
It's not just people in the industry that need to pay attention. It's those behind the industry giving the legal advice etc.
My girlfriend is a law student and trying to teach her that no DRM will work well is almost impossible. I had a large discussion with her the other night over this, and being a legal mind she tried coming up with solutions to the problem, all of which imposed restrictions on what you could do with the files. Recently my method for convincing her has been to impose these restrictions upon the files she uses, with a lot of success the night that steam decided she wasn't allowed to play her games. This article has helped also by showing many other problems caused, and pointing out that DRM free increases sales was the clincher.
The problem isn't just the people in the industry, it's the people giving them advice that need to listen. Many legal types (not all obviously) are still stuck with the image of if you don't completely control what someone can do they'll completely abuse it and from that they'll design the contracts or licenses to reflect that, and recommend implementing a system that imposes the contract.
I still haven't won the battle with my girlfriend, but I'm getting there faster and faster every time she plays music now
I can imagine it also makes the user much more one-track minded. There's one thing going on in their head and that's the game (which I hope you all just lost). Either that or it'll be the half rolled joint next to them that they're concentrating on.
Use the google cache.
For the example you gave I typed "cache:http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/.NET/Visual_Studio_.NET_2005/Q_23409852.html" without the quotes, scrolled to the bottom of the page and hey presto. The goods ....and as proof test it for yourself
I think that'll be due to the ballmer peak. Probably a bit of a blank space in his memory there..
Removing accidental moderation. Nothing to see here, move along.
I'd say go worse than that and start with visual basic, (man I'm gonna get modded into oblivion for this one). Certain parts of C etc are way beyond what he needs right now, and vb gives him a familiar environment to begin with. We can convert him to the console later..
With VB the user starts off performing basic frame layout, which is very easy to do, followed by small amounts of code to make each button etc do what its meant to. In the long long time ago that I did vb programming, there were loads of examples and a very good documentation system setup that got me through everything I needed fine, and made it fairly easy for me to find some way of doing something. The use of vb to design a ui is what will hopefully make him think it's really easy to do all of these little annoying tasks and it will produce something he's much more used to dealing with (for now). Console apps are great for us techies, but for a budding techie they can still be a little scary, and actually quite boring..
Next, find something on the computer that pisses him off and home in on it. Go through with him what about it pisses him off, and then suggest ways he could solve this issue by writing a tiny program or script. I started off with writing a media player (using the windows media player plugin *shudder*) because everything on the market at the time was crap, with the likes of musicmatch and everything. It was also in the time when wmp had very limited function and because of this was possibly the best media player they've made. I gradually built up a media player that in the end was pretty advanced for it's time with a full database, reading and parsing of filenames and mp3 tags, and even it's own api used for control across a network, control within between processes, and to allow users to create their own skinned apps.
For me it was the ease of doing things that got me more interested. And from there on in I moved on from the horror that is vb to sensible languages like C, but had it not been for the ui builder in vb it would have been a lot harder and less fun for a teenage boy with a short attention span.
Disclaimer: I have not used nor even seen vb in over 7 years now and I now live and die by the console.
The fact that you have a firewall shows that you have made additional interaction. The firewall didn't come until SP2, and I don't know about anyone else but I tend to call a service pack a patch.
No, the whole point of using super conductors is that the resistance is EXACTLY 0 ohm, not incredibly near. There is no resistance, at all.
Whilst you are correct for direct current voltages (DC), superconducting materials do have a very very small resistance for alternating currents (AC). And at 138kV I'm pretty sure they ain't gonna be using DC..I think it's something to do with the magnetic flux created by the changes in current but I'm not sure..
Blue Energy's method seems more efficient since it uses predictable current, rather than waves, to generate power.
Whilst predictable is highly desirable, it can leaves large gaps in production in between each predicted moment, like tidal for example. You've gotta find something that solves the times in between.
When it comes to waves it's more a matter of probability instead. Stick one out at sea and you've got yourself a fluctuating unreliable power generator based upon the waves at the time. Stick enough of them out there and you're gonna get yourself a relatively constant output, whilst a few of them may have little to no waves, the others will. Slightly unreliable maybe, but all of these systems can't rely upon one source given it fail, and all of these issues can be managed using another alternate power source to level out the peaks etc.
I don't see us ever giving up on non-renewables completely, simply for there reliability when the renewables become unavailable, but I can guarantee you that their usage will slowly become less and less as more and more of these renewable sources are developed.
I don't know about you but the speed sure feels like a web app...
1: Standard users ain't gonna know how to compile any source they provide, nor would they want to.
2: DRM support? Sad but true I know, but to expect full functionality from a card on linux I expect there to be some proprietary modules in there for DRM support.
Hopefully they'll provide open source drivers for a vast majority of the functionality but I can imagine they'll aim em at more specialist users, and just shove the fully functional binary onto the cd distributed. Who knows, they may partially release the source for the fully functional drivers and just use precompiled binaries for the drm support.
Disclaimer: I have not checked any of this, it's just what I can see happening.
Wow, I knew slashdot was famous for users never reading the article, but I at least thought they'd read the summary!!
Slashdot doesn't delete comments..
SOMEONE PLEASE MOD PARENT UP!! (and mod great-grandparent interesting/insightful instead of funny)
I read what he first said and noticed it was modded funny. It isn't funny, it's true!! Just because you've interpreted it as you've given someone root access instead of someone has gained root access does not make what he said any less relevant. It was exactly what I was thinking the moment I read the title of this article...
Wow, this has got to be the first time a slashdotter has praised his company's content filter!!
It may only be half way out, but I still think it's time to call the European Faecal Standards and Measurement Office
On their own, no they'll sound amazing. The difference between those and any other type of speaker is very noticable though as every speaker has a different warmth and style of sound to it. It may take an audiophile to notice it, but if you're spending 18k on a setup you're quite likely to be one..
You want preferably the same speakers all round, failing that the same type of driver in every speaker. If you're going to have several different types of speaker you need to put them in every channel to make sure that they have the same sound around the room.
Going beyond that you want arrays of speakers around the room. No one speaker plays one channel of audio, but instead the combination of adjacent channels to make it possible for sound to be coming from any specific location in the room, not just where the speakers are located. Then it becomes essential that the speakers are matched all round.