I hate Arial with a passion, and wish my Mac would substitute Helvetica, since Arial was actually designed as a Helvetica clone that cost less to license.
You can set the font you wish used as the default for sans type, serif type, etc. in the preferences of Firefox and forbid websites from displaying other fonts. Better yet, get the Stylish extension so you can further customize your websites' styles (website specific options).
I like setting all left aligned text to left-right justify, for instance, but your imagination is the limit. I've never liked the way most websites choose their fonts anyway. And for Linux, where the only fonts which exist are "Sans", "Monospace", and "Serif" practically speaking, it's best not to let websites use their own fonts, or you might end up seeing some of the terribly fuzzy stuff that are supposedly fonts.
If you're going to use that much RAM then chances are you're using applications that require a lot of processing power. So you'll need more fans and there will be more heat. These laptops are designed for basic and quick tasks like checking email quietly and easily.
Like every other technology, this kind can be abused. For instance, it could be adapted to record everyone's speed at some instant. Many more speeding ticks = huge increase in profits. You get the idea. With more of these operating (stationary ones), a map of where you are in your car at certain timepoints would be easily available. It's the beginning of a tracking technology, really.
I don't protest the use of it. It's just technology, and it will get used. For beneficial to the public applications like capturing stolen cars and for nefarious purposes, like using machine evidence against humans, because we all know that machines don't lie.
What we need then is a CAPTCHA implementation for licence plates. There are better ways of tracking a stolen vehicle: a *user*-controlled black box or tracker that's in a random location on the car. It wouldn't be too expensive with today's technology, and it's not in the hands of law enforcement.
Somehow I doubt people hang out with their friends so frequently and follow them around everywhere enough so that they will be dragged to eat more often than they would alone. People hanging out with people with similar tendencies, and being habituated (thereby more tolerant and accepting) to fat people are probably the main "causes".
The real question is really, what will this tax do? And I don't mean to your wallet. Arbitrary taxation has at least two potential problems:
1) Upset citizens (provide a rationale is a good solution in theory, but no matter what there will be something to complain about)
2) It may upset some part of the industry (people will use Ebay instead, cameras will be feature crippled sold. Instead of setting up a new shop in Europe, it's easier to cripple features)
This is like hearing "Windows is dead" from a bunch of hardcore Linux-only users, or that "coffee is dead" from a person who hangs out with many people who only drink tea. This is just like that MySpace displacing television post or that bye desktop post. Let's make a general rule: when there are already millions of (active) users of something, it's not going to go away because of some new-fangled product, not even if it's better. That's why we still have Fortran 95 code in use.
America isn't the world. With HIV being such a high profile disease, there is no way an effective vaccine will be slowed or stopped by politics and bullshit.
All these projects can only be good. It means that corporations are actually serious about open phones.
Each of the mentioned projects have different goals. This Intel project will support Intel hardware. The OpenMoko project on the other hand actually has a real phone that people can buy, which none of these other projects have.
This is the good thing about open source. With each project doing its own thing, we'll see a lot more support and competition for mobile devices.
As for me, I'm going to get the Neo1973 (OpenMoko) phone when it comes out in November.
Multiply that by the age of the language. In the beginning (of computers), there was assembly and some very simple languages were created like Basic. These simple languages were enough for people to write decent programs without having to drudge through assembly.
Languages got more and more complex with additional features and we end up with C and other things like that. Hackers were very up there with new features and more real world power (of course all useful languages today in one sense are equally powerful, Turing-complete).
However, programmers didn't know too much about how to design an aesthetically pleasing language. You can see as time goes by how languages have become more and more readable by design.
Yes, you *can* write elegant code in Perl. But it's easy to write terrible looking code. Recently with languages like Python and Perl, the elegance of programming has been built into the language, both with the formatting of the code itself and how the language can be used.
So pretty source code can be written in many languages, but the effort to do so increases dramatically and becomes impossible with so many developers unless the language itself enforces elegance.
There's an even simpler solution - just do what gmail did before it went public. Only allow new accounts to be referred. Since there are so many people on the internet, anyone can easily get an account.
It's easiest to read stuff at about 10-12pt, normal reading distance, 60-70 characters. That's why the default LaTeX formatting is that way. Take any book and count the number of characters on a line. Even large books have a reduced column for text and the rest are for margins.
The only complaint I can see is for long lines of source code, but then it's better to break across lines for readability anyways. This applies especially to long expressions like:
As long as OEM's keep selling machines with windows preinstalled, I seriously doubt if MS cares if you clean it and load Ubuntu on the machine. They still got their $75 for the license.
They care because that's one more machine NOT running Windows. Their monopoly depends on it.
This article is a lot of FUD. But there's lots of truth in it too. Even though some of this transmission of data is optional and can be turned off, it still goes too far because most average computer users don't know about this stuff. Hence it's taking advantage of people without their knowledge.
hardware hash, which is a non-unique number generated from the computer's hardware configuration but no personal information.
This is not good. Probably only used to invalidate your copy of Windows once you change the motherboard.
The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is optional, and designed to improve software quality.
This service asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL.
Via the Device Manager, Microsoft has access to all the information related to your system configuration in order to provide the adequate drivers.
Again: if a device is plugged in, a dialog first comes up and asks the user if he/she wants to search the internet for a driver. And the service NEEDS the name of the device to search for one.
Similarly, Dynamic Update offers your computer's hardware info to Microsoft for compatible drivers.
That's because you ASK for it. Similarly if I Google a problem, Google gets my search query. But they're collecting stats on hardware, and that's pretty normal for an OS company. After all, it'll help them build a better OS (not likely though).
Event Viewer data is collected every time the users access the Event Log Online Help link. By using the File Association Web Service, Microsoft will receive a list with the file name extensions.
Just the extensions?? Big deal. Here's a partial list for my computer: *.raw, *.mov,...wait, this person has some Apple format on their computer...DESTROY. Can they use this information to help with vendor lock-in? Maybe.
Metadata related to the games that you have installed in Vista also finds its way to Microsoft.
Maybe this is going a bit off the deep end. What I install is my business and not theirs.
The Error Reporting for Handwriting Recognition will only report to Microsoft if the user expressly desires it to.
This asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL. Why are they even including this in this article?
Through IME Word Registration, Microsoft will receive Word registration reports. Users have to choose to participate in the Installation Improvement Program before any data is sent over at Microsof[t].
This asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL. So, if you register, it receives the data. No surprise there.
Ever used a print server hosted by Microsoft? Then the company collected your data through Internet Printing. Network Awareness is in a league of its own. It does not premeditatedly store of send directly information to Microsoft, but it makes data available to other services involving network connectivity, and that do access the Redmond company.
Makes data available to services that contact Microsoft does not mean this data will be SENT to Microsoft. FUD.
Via Parental Controls, not only you but also Microsoft will monitor all the visited URLs of your offspring.
If this is actually true, then it's too far. Direct monitoring of the sites!
Hashes of your Peer Name tied to your IP address are published and periodically refreshed on a Microsoft server, courtesy of the Peer Name Resolution Service.
Too far. But I'm not sure what a Peer Name is now. And I doubt it's very useful.
Every time you install a Plug and Play device, you tell Microsoft about it in order to get the necessary device drivers. The same is the case
Please man, file transfer. An actual computer murders the iPhone in terms of surfing the internet. So you have all your files and music on a computer. You're going to need to connect it to your computer, no matter how good the iPhone is.
Those pages edited by these paid experts will be subject to general review just like any other page. Besides, governments already have write access to Wikipedia, only with this, it's public, and therefore makes us more aware of it anyway.
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You can set the font you wish used as the default for sans type, serif type, etc. in the preferences of Firefox and forbid websites from displaying other fonts. Better yet, get the Stylish extension so you can further customize your websites' styles (website specific options).
I like setting all left aligned text to left-right justify, for instance, but your imagination is the limit. I've never liked the way most websites choose their fonts anyway. And for Linux, where the only fonts which exist are "Sans", "Monospace", and "Serif" practically speaking, it's best not to let websites use their own fonts, or you might end up seeing some of the terribly fuzzy stuff that are supposedly fonts.
If you're going to use that much RAM then chances are you're using applications that require a lot of processing power. So you'll need more fans and there will be more heat. These laptops are designed for basic and quick tasks like checking email quietly and easily.
Like every other technology, this kind can be abused. For instance, it could be adapted to record everyone's speed at some instant. Many more speeding ticks = huge increase in profits. You get the idea. With more of these operating (stationary ones), a map of where you are in your car at certain timepoints would be easily available. It's the beginning of a tracking technology, really.
I don't protest the use of it. It's just technology, and it will get used. For beneficial to the public applications like capturing stolen cars and for nefarious purposes, like using machine evidence against humans, because we all know that machines don't lie.
What we need then is a CAPTCHA implementation for licence plates. There are better ways of tracking a stolen vehicle: a *user*-controlled black box or tracker that's in a random location on the car. It wouldn't be too expensive with today's technology, and it's not in the hands of law enforcement.
It's interesting that their open source site requires the proprietary Flash player to display all content.
Somehow I doubt people hang out with their friends so frequently and follow them around everywhere enough so that they will be dragged to eat more often than they would alone. People hanging out with people with similar tendencies, and being habituated (thereby more tolerant and accepting) to fat people are probably the main "causes".
That's what radar is for.
The real question is really, what will this tax do? And I don't mean to your wallet. Arbitrary taxation has at least two potential problems: 1) Upset citizens (provide a rationale is a good solution in theory, but no matter what there will be something to complain about) 2) It may upset some part of the industry (people will use Ebay instead, cameras will be feature crippled sold. Instead of setting up a new shop in Europe, it's easier to cripple features)
As usual, FUD. Here's some innovation for ya: "The player can't be turned on or off as it is always in the same state."
This is like hearing "Windows is dead" from a bunch of hardcore Linux-only users, or that "coffee is dead" from a person who hangs out with many people who only drink tea. This is just like that MySpace displacing television post or that bye desktop post. Let's make a general rule: when there are already millions of (active) users of something, it's not going to go away because of some new-fangled product, not even if it's better. That's why we still have Fortran 95 code in use.
America isn't the world. With HIV being such a high profile disease, there is no way an effective vaccine will be slowed or stopped by politics and bullshit.
It wouldn't be too hard to get someone else's MAC address. sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether XXXX Where XXXX is your MAC
All these projects can only be good. It means that corporations are actually serious about open phones.
Each of the mentioned projects have different goals. This Intel project will support Intel hardware. The OpenMoko project on the other hand actually has a real phone that people can buy, which none of these other projects have.
This is the good thing about open source. With each project doing its own thing, we'll see a lot more support and competition for mobile devices.
As for me, I'm going to get the Neo1973 (OpenMoko) phone when it comes out in November.
Multiply that by the age of the language. In the beginning (of computers), there was assembly and some very simple languages were created like Basic. These simple languages were enough for people to write decent programs without having to drudge through assembly.
Languages got more and more complex with additional features and we end up with C and other things like that. Hackers were very up there with new features and more real world power (of course all useful languages today in one sense are equally powerful, Turing-complete).
However, programmers didn't know too much about how to design an aesthetically pleasing language. You can see as time goes by how languages have become more and more readable by design.
Yes, you *can* write elegant code in Perl. But it's easy to write terrible looking code. Recently with languages like Python and Perl, the elegance of programming has been built into the language, both with the formatting of the code itself and how the language can be used.
So pretty source code can be written in many languages, but the effort to do so increases dramatically and becomes impossible with so many developers unless the language itself enforces elegance.
Well here's a pretty good argument that I think everyone would understand.
There's nothing wrong with sex. Would you want some bored camera guy in a dusty room watching you have sex?
There's an even simpler solution - just do what gmail did before it went public. Only allow new accounts to be referred. Since there are so many people on the internet, anyone can easily get an account.
Wouldn't trust that list. Look at these mg/oz measurements:
Starbucks Grande Caffe Latte: 7.25
Starbucks Tall Caffe Latte: 4.83
They come from the same source coffeepot, yet they have different concentrations. Go figure.
It's easiest to read stuff at about 10-12pt, normal reading distance, 60-70 characters. That's why the default LaTeX formatting is that way. Take any book and count the number of characters on a line. Even large books have a reduced column for text and the rest are for margins.
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The only complaint I can see is for long lines of source code, but then it's better to break across lines for readability anyways. This applies especially to long expressions like:
variable_1 +
variable_2 +
So you're saying rape is the victim's fault?
They care because that's one more machine NOT running Windows. Their monopoly depends on it.
This is not good. Probably only used to invalidate your copy of Windows once you change the motherboard.
This service asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL.
Again: if a device is plugged in, a dialog first comes up and asks the user if he/she wants to search the internet for a driver. And the service NEEDS the name of the device to search for one.
That's because you ASK for it. Similarly if I Google a problem, Google gets my search query. But they're collecting stats on hardware, and that's pretty normal for an OS company. After all, it'll help them build a better OS (not likely though).
Just the extensions?? Big deal. Here's a partial list for my computer: *.raw, *.mov,...wait, this person has some Apple format on their computer...DESTROY. Can they use this information to help with vendor lock-in? Maybe.
Maybe this is going a bit off the deep end. What I install is my business and not theirs.
This asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL. Why are they even including this in this article?
This asks your consent, and is okay and OPTIONAL. So, if you register, it receives the data. No surprise there.
Makes data available to services that contact Microsoft does not mean this data will be SENT to Microsoft. FUD.
If this is actually true, then it's too far. Direct monitoring of the sites!
Too far. But I'm not sure what a Peer Name is now. And I doubt it's very useful.
Only difference is this was misadvertising.
Please man, file transfer. An actual computer murders the iPhone in terms of surfing the internet. So you have all your files and music on a computer. You're going to need to connect it to your computer, no matter how good the iPhone is.
The touchpad? Ick. No matter how many features on a touchpad (mine already has several, never use), nothing beats an external mouse.
No, with open source you can determine whether it was a tamper or the original programmers.
Those pages edited by these paid experts will be subject to general review just like any other page. Besides, governments already have write access to Wikipedia, only with this, it's public, and therefore makes us more aware of it anyway.