1. "If all crimes were prosecuted, we should let criminals roam free and use prisons as fortresses"
2. No-drinking-before-21's afaik a US-only idiocy, just like the death penalty and (current topic) non-universal health care. If you want laws that are sensible in any way, just migrate somewhere else:)
Actually they are quite a bit of a problem. I guess you're forgetting about the depth of your case - taking that into account your Mac Pro is more likely four times as big as the Shuttle. (Sorry but I can't seem to find any detailed info about the Mac Pro's size).
Additionally you'd probably use only one VGA card in your Mac Pro, equal to the amount you'd use in the Shuttle.
As a last detail, you probably couldn't fit 12 cm fans into the shuttle because it's back side (after subtracting the space taken by connectors) seems to be smaller than 12 cm square.
I hasn't been to american theatres often enough to relevantly judge about this, but I assume you've just been in a "weird" screening (where the audience cheers, applaudes etc). Those seem to occur in all countries I know about and are rather rare (in my experience opening nights are more susceptible than later screenings).
You're ignoring one RIM's most important selling points: BES policies.
Because of that significant segment of users who wouldn't follow these steps, software installs will be prohibited and the use of passwords enforced by the IT department.
So until somebody manages to bypass those security features, I wouldn't consider trojans & co. a serious threat.
As it happens all the time (remember OpenOffice.org destroying MS Office's market share? Real Player being installed and used on each and every win-based computer (instead of the builtin WMP)? Everybody using Trillian/Miranda/Kopete/GAIM/Whatever instead of the ole MSN Messenger?).
Just one thing remains to be asked: Why the heck would anybody use Firefox if there are betteralternativeseverywhere?
I suspect it's just a general change in our tolerance mindset. No idea if that applies to the US though as I'm europe-based (as in "nobody carries weapons").
they should be banned in: cars (for the driver), schools, church, movies, restaurants
I oppose.
Driving and church are usually both boring as hell (the metaphor, not the one you go to if you text in church). Life should be interesting, so let drivers and people forced to attend church do something interesting.
Same goes for school. I may not have been to school for quite a bit but a bit of liability might just be a good idea. If you screw up because of texting thru class: your fucking bad. Try harder next time.
In restaurants and movies I personally don't see any need to outright ban cells. If you annoy somebody else by texting in there (and you most probably will), they can just tell you to stop it - no need to place stupid bans.
or at least not make them pay for some of it themselves
According to their "public development" blog, they have presold some 75 keyboards in the first 45 minutes of taking preorders. If they continue to sell 'em at this rate, they should already be out of december batch keyboards:)
As far as I understood their "public development", layouts will be stored on this baby using the usb mass storage protocol. This would probably mean that only some limited functionality (dynamic switching between different layouts (based on os' keyboard settings or currently active app)) would miss – something I suspect might be built very quickly...:)
the integrated USB mass storage, etc, when you can get 99% of the value of this thing with a monochrome, high-latency, no-hard-drive version
The mass storage controller (and SD slot) discussed in their development blog wasn't referring to a hard drive inside the keyboard but rather the communications interface from your pc to the board.
To make the thing more platform-independent, they chose to make it's layout storage (which can't be stripped away quite well) available as USB mass storage, so (in theory) you could use it without any problems in linux, windows, solaris, (insert your favourite os supporting usb storage devices here).:]
Seeing the SD card slot on the newest pictures leaves me a bit puzzled about it even having this internal layout storage. We'll have to wait and see...
Not indicating any knowledge of this particular model I suspect you won't be able to change it's layout by simply replacing it's driver.
Afaik most of those laser projection thingies will have a tiny little mask/lens thru which the laser beam is "formed" keyboardy.
As already noted by someone else (it's nearly 0200 here, too late to search thru them other comments, sorry), this requires write access to an ASP-enabled web folder. It may be exploitable remotely but I think "remote" might also commonly imply "anonymous"...
Now I may have not quite grasped the importance of DTDs, but I can think of only one scenario where retrieving a DTD from a to-be-determined location would be useful: Validating XML against any DTD. (Solution: Whomever wants to validate will also provide the DTD.)
To my knowledge any other application could just depend on builtin DTDs for validating the formats it knows and don't care about whatever it doesn't know as it wouldn't be able to intelligently use them, anyways.
Did I forget to take in account one of those nice tiny little huge details somewhere?
Yep, you're right.
IIRC it's "Automatic" now, with a similar mem footprint as 10MB.
What I was referring to in my other post was Opera's 2nd level cache (stored on your hard drive, defaulting to 20(?) MB or so) combined with any modern OS's RAM buffering (which should afaik be almost as fast as the first level mem cache).
First of all, please stop the plenking, it's repulsive.
Secondly:
RSS and Live bookmarks are the same thing. / I don't know what a "Live title" is (edit I do now, big deal, its just RSS)
Why do they describe it as three different features then, huh? Maybe 'cause it's implemented three fucking times in your fancy slim browser..
Accessibility ? so disabled users have to find and download and install their own optimisations ?
Are you serious? If you are: I know (visually) disabled people. They usually don't just surf around and try various browsers for the heck of it. They get trained on a browser that's been installed on their PC by a professional (by whom they also get the training; in most cases anyway).
Phishing protection - See above - You been living under a rock ?
Yep. Everybody absolutely loved it. Nobody complained about it being blacklist-based (and thus always trailing behind the actual state of phishing), sending/your/ browsing progress to mozilla and causing additional traffic slowing everything down.
Session restore - seems quite good to me, Oh that upstart opera has it too.
"Upstart Opera"? You meant "Upstart Firefox", right? (Just for your convenience: define:upstart.)
Spell checking - I seem to fill a lot of forms in these days, and the net still seems to be largely text based.
You seem to be the guy to ignore every suggestion any halfway decent spell checker'd give you, but leaving that aside: Many people are perfectly able to decently type text into textboxes undecorated by squiggly red lines, some might even like it that way.
I agree with the rest of your points (Pop up blocker, Integrated search, Session restore being good, Search suggestions being bad).
As far as I know, most current OSes already implement a disk access caching layer storing information that might be read from disk in RAM, so the mozillanians could just switch to disk caching 'stead of wasting precious main mem.
However, there's an even better way of doing it:
Close Firefox (sudo killall -9 firefox)
Remove Firefox (e.g. "emerge --unmerge firefox" in gentoo, "apt-get remove firefox" in debian,...)
Install Opera (yay for intelligent, low-RAM-consuming, blazingly fast disk-caching) (e.g. "emerge opera", "apt-get install opera")
Slashdot Mirror
Whoops, almost forgot to point that one out:
* US-only as in "US-only in the industrialized 'first', 'civilized' world."
1. "If all crimes were prosecuted, we should let criminals roam free and use prisons as fortresses" :)
2. No-drinking-before-21's afaik a US-only idiocy, just like the death penalty and (current topic) non-universal health care. If you want laws that are sensible in any way, just migrate somewhere else
Actually they are quite a bit of a problem. I guess you're forgetting about the depth of your case - taking that into account your Mac Pro is more likely four times as big as the Shuttle. (Sorry but I can't seem to find any detailed info about the Mac Pro's size).
Additionally you'd probably use only one VGA card in your Mac Pro, equal to the amount you'd use in the Shuttle.
As a last detail, you probably couldn't fit 12 cm fans into the shuttle because it's back side (after subtracting the space taken by connectors) seems to be smaller than 12 cm square.
I'm sure there is *one* person to do so:
Matt.
You're ignoring one RIM's most important selling points: BES policies.
Because of that significant segment of users who wouldn't follow these steps, software installs will be prohibited and the use of passwords enforced by the IT department.
So until somebody manages to bypass those security features, I wouldn't consider trojans & co. a serious threat.
Which is also the reason they advertise it as a general-use web browser (primarily to inexperienced users; judging by their "info" page).
"RTFA" might seem kind of an unnice thing to say, but since it's also kind of the only possibility: RTFA.
I know MS Office's not even an actual part of Windows; but since many Users seem to regard it as such, I allowed myself to include it.
Exactly.
As it happens all the time (remember OpenOffice.org destroying MS Office's market share? Real Player being installed and used on each and every win-based computer (instead of the builtin WMP)? Everybody using Trillian/Miranda/Kopete/GAIM/Whatever instead of the ole MSN Messenger?).
Just one thing remains to be asked: Why the heck would anybody use Firefox if there are better alternatives everywhere?
As opposed to tech-heads on Slashdot who
Afaik the Heinz competition'll get it's lucky winner $57k, so the financial incentive's definately there.
Apple? ;))
(I know, BSD/GPL isn't quite Public Domain, but sometimes to some it comes quite close..
I suspect it's just a general change in our tolerance mindset. No idea if that applies to the US though as I'm europe-based (as in "nobody carries weapons").
Driving and church are usually both boring as hell (the metaphor, not the one you go to if you text in church). Life should be interesting, so let drivers and people forced to attend church do something interesting.
Same goes for school. I may not have been to school for quite a bit but a bit of liability might just be a good idea. If you screw up because of texting thru class: your fucking bad. Try harder next time.
In restaurants and movies I personally don't see any need to outright ban cells. If you annoy somebody else by texting in there (and you most probably will), they can just tell you to stop it - no need to place stupid bans. Full ack to that one.
Yep they are. (Or at least so they say):
:)
According to their "public development" blog, they have presold some 75 keyboards in the first 45 minutes of taking preorders. If they continue to sell 'em at this rate, they should already be out of december batch keyboards
As far as I understood their "public development", layouts will be stored on this baby using the usb mass storage protocol. This would probably mean that only some limited functionality (dynamic switching between different layouts (based on os' keyboard settings or currently active app)) would miss – something I suspect might be built very quickly... :)
To make the thing more platform-independent, they chose to make it's layout storage (which can't be stripped away quite well) available as USB mass storage, so (in theory) you could use it without any problems in linux, windows, solaris, (insert your favourite os supporting usb storage devices here).
Seeing the SD card slot on the newest pictures leaves me a bit puzzled about it even having this internal layout storage. We'll have to wait and see...
Not indicating any knowledge of this particular model I suspect you won't be able to change it's layout by simply replacing it's driver.
Afaik most of those laser projection thingies will have a tiny little mask/lens thru which the laser beam is "formed" keyboardy.
As already noted by someone else (it's nearly 0200 here, too late to search thru them other comments, sorry), this requires write access to an ASP-enabled web folder. It may be exploitable remotely but I think "remote" might also commonly imply "anonymous"...
Now I may have not quite grasped the importance of DTDs, but I can think of only one scenario where retrieving a DTD from a to-be-determined location would be useful: Validating XML against any DTD. (Solution: Whomever wants to validate will also provide the DTD.)
To my knowledge any other application could just depend on builtin DTDs for validating the formats it knows and don't care about whatever it doesn't know as it wouldn't be able to intelligently use them, anyways.
Did I forget to take in account one of those nice tiny little huge details somewhere?
Yep, you're right.
IIRC it's "Automatic" now, with a similar mem footprint as 10MB.
What I was referring to in my other post was Opera's 2nd level cache (stored on your hard drive, defaulting to 20(?) MB or so) combined with any modern OS's RAM buffering (which should afaik be almost as fast as the first level mem cache).
Secondly:
Why do they describe it as three different features then, huh? Maybe 'cause it's implemented three fucking times in your fancy slim browser.. Are you serious? If you are: I know (visually) disabled people. They usually don't just surf around and try various browsers for the heck of it. They get trained on a browser that's been installed on their PC by a professional (by whom they also get the training; in most cases anyway). Yep. Everybody absolutely loved it. Nobody complained about it being blacklist-based (and thus always trailing behind the actual state of phishing), sending
I agree with the rest of your points (Pop up blocker, Integrated search, Session restore being good, Search suggestions being bad).
As far as I know, most current OSes already implement a disk access caching layer storing information that might be read from disk in RAM, so the mozillanians could just switch to disk caching 'stead of wasting precious main mem. However, there's an even better way of doing it:
- Close Firefox (sudo killall -9 firefox)
- Remove Firefox (e.g. "emerge --unmerge firefox" in gentoo, "apt-get remove firefox" in debian,
...)
- Install Opera (yay for intelligent, low-RAM-consuming, blazingly fast disk-caching) (e.g. "emerge opera", "apt-get install opera")
- Be happy
(just my $.02)