There seem to be some key differences with myspace, in particular myspace doesn't charge you money if you want to change the color of your page, or keep you from playing the stupid flash game just because someone else is already playing it.
You have it pretty much right, which is why a lot of stock forum software asks you if you're younger than 13, why Myspace saya you must be 13 in their TOS etc.
Dell and HP both had netbooks long before the eee. The difference was that they charged more for them. (sometimes more than a full powered notebook), despite the bare minimum hardware. Netbooks as they are now are bad for business if you're a major player; less money from the systems, and not many more sold than if cheap netbooks had never entered the market.
Does Via make anything with enough power for this to matter? All their graphics (and for that matter, everything else) seems to be bare minimum or less hardware that competes on price and power.
Don't get me wrong, I love them* but I have a hard time imagining it'd be worth anything to exploit the power in their graphics.
*Except that they don't make a server quality chipset to go with their processors. That pisses me off.
While I'm not opposed to filtering pornography or games in schools, or even known major time wasters like myspace. Ihere are other things that need to be considered, such as the general inability of filters to notice that a newspaper article about pornography shouldn't be blocked (really, the word 'pornography' should be a major tipoff that a site isn't pornographic), or, a major problem in my state, the government (filters are controled by the state of Utah, not districts or individual schools), using the filters to block access to information on birth control, homosexuality, any religion that they deem unacceptable, even blogs that criticize filters (that one was done by a filter company, not the state, I don't know if it was the same filter Utah uses).
It's not an aspect of the filter software itself either, the libraries don't block access to non porn gay sites or planned parenthood, someone made a deliberate decision to limit kids access to information they felt was 'bad', much of this information was already determined by the courts to not be acceptable to censor as well.
Filters that work for the purpose they claim to could be made, but nobody is really interested in using them, they'd rather buy the same stuff Iran uses (yes, really)
like having the 'browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped' setting set to true still allows the url bar to match on non-typed urls.
Matching only URLs you typed out doesn't sound like the old bars behavior to me, as I took advantage of it matching all URLs visited to look at my history for a given site. Or do you mean that 'browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped' works in 2 but not 3?
The professional dealers my source gets his weed from are more than happy to upsell him to addictive drugs, usually painkillers. Though he says that they only mention them if he asks about other stock, so I don't imagine it is a huge deal. I've had experience with family getting upsold, but it was always from one addictive substance to a stronger one (painkillers to heroin).
Paying more attention now, this is liquid helium cooled, not liquid nitrogen, that makes getting this cost effective a harder problem, since a bigger size would be much more expensive to maintain.
Since reducing the fab size doesn't reduce resistance, it won't speed up a superconductive processor. If someone is willing to put up with a system size of a fridge, or entire building (and keep it cold), it will work just fine, potentially at speeds that are orders of magnitude above modern supercomputing. I very much doubt that this will ever see a consumer desktop, or even many server rooms. But anybody already in the supercomputing business would probably be happy to go through hell to be able to whatever it is their doing faster* at the same price.
*It will still take several minutes to boot because of the slow hard drive of course.
No, Opera, and every other browser, failed Acid 3*, then the developers made changes to try and pass the test, without any work at all in fixing the underlying problems that caused it to fail. If you want to be impressive, work on passing Acid 4.
The user must explicitly punch holes in their system to create most vulnerabilities.
Like by installing Quicktime. Wait...
Macs don't get viruses because they aren't common enough for people to bother, as they become more common, this may change, very quickly, especially given Apple's track record on patching holes and bugs in its application/plugin level products.
While I would agree that not hosting on Youtube would be dumb, depending entirely on a service that might implode one day isn't really the best idea either, and a secondary hosting with a.mpeg and.oga (I think? whatever.oggs counterpart is) file for each won't be costly as long as youtube keeps running.
Here's a better question: When do you think anyone in their right mind will ok that procedure? Think about it, you're taking a perfectly alive human being and... putting them at risk of death? For the purposes of? I know someone will compare this to the risk of life we took putting someone on the moon but I see little to no merit in this procedure.
To my understanding, the biggest thing they want this for is organ banking, a lot of donor organs go bad because the people who need them are too far away. If it ever really works for a whole person, it could also be used in triage situation, instead of picking who gets to die doctors could freeze everyone healthy enough to be revived, and deal with their injuries one at a time.
Linux has (probably) been over 1% for some time now. It's difficult to gage. Most current estimates run 1-3% (With a one showing less than one, and one showing 5%).
However, while those numbers are small, most reports on Linux share have shown a 50-100% increase in Linux's share over the last 2 years. Joking aside, 2008 really was the year of the Linux desktop (or rather, notebook). However, compared to to the monolith of windows, this progress is tiny, so I'll put it in a different perspective.
There are now as many or more people using Linux on the desktop than playing World of Warcraft
Since when do most computer consumers know what a processor is, or have an opinion about AMD?
Most people buy Intel because most people are shown an Intel machine by the sales people. Some of the very large OEMs don't even make AMD systems available. Personally, when I've done custom machines, or advised family on low end machine purchases, *every* one of them has chosen AMD when I gave the option, simply because the price for a given performance point was better.
And no, I'm not an AMD fangirl, I'm on an Intel right now, since Intel met my needs at the time the machine was bought, and AMD didn't, even if it was far cheaper.
Trust me when I say that improving schools starts with parents actually taking an interesting in their child's education.
Parents who would fail the 4th grade getting involved is supposed to help? I suppose it does force the kid to study and do his homework, but I've always felt that kids needing to do work at home is a weakness in education. If you have a kid for 6 hours a day, and he or she still needs to go home and do *more* in order to learn*, what exactly were those 6 hours for?
*I'm making an assumption that I was wrong as a child, and my teachers were not just feeding on my suffering by assigning homework (4th grade math not included, the homework there was designed to break our spirits.)
"If they wanted to actually get their point across, make it an expansion module to America's Army where you get promoted to a position that actually needs these skills to win the game. Think Petraeus in Iraq."
Thats actually what I thought this was when I saw the headline. Instead of a pure violence sim, the player has to protect, help rebuild, and try not to piss of locals and create a larger threat.
All the third party things Microsoft has the 'benefit' of aren't really things I want to see in Linux. Proprietary divers that never see anything but a buggy revision zero, viruses and trojans, buggy antivirus software, iTunes, horrifyingly bloated 'user experience' software that printers need DRMed games that infect ring 0 to take control, third party wireless networking software that can't be removed without pulling out the driver.
Once I wanted to flee from Windows to get away from Microsoft, these days, Microsoft seems like the most attractive part of windows, and everything else is why i want to avoid it.
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There seem to be some key differences with myspace, in particular myspace doesn't charge you money if you want to change the color of your page, or keep you from playing the stupid flash game just because someone else is already playing it.
You have it pretty much right, which is why a lot of stock forum software asks you if you're younger than 13, why Myspace saya you must be 13 in their TOS etc.
Dell and HP both had netbooks long before the eee. The difference was that they charged more for them. (sometimes more than a full powered notebook), despite the bare minimum hardware. Netbooks as they are now are bad for business if you're a major player; less money from the systems, and not many more sold than if cheap netbooks had never entered the market.
Nvidia/ati and a bunch of others just built an open spec (library?) that will allow this to happen
Wouldn't it make more sense to continue to follow the pre mickey mouse extension rules? (28 years for abandoned works, 56 for maintained ones).
Does Via make anything with enough power for this to matter? All their graphics (and for that matter, everything else) seems to be bare minimum or less hardware that competes on price and power.
Don't get me wrong, I love them* but I have a hard time imagining it'd be worth anything to exploit the power in their graphics.
*Except that they don't make a server quality chipset to go with their processors. That pisses me off.
While I'm not opposed to filtering pornography or games in schools, or even known major time wasters like myspace. Ihere are other things that need to be considered, such as the general inability of filters to notice that a newspaper article about pornography shouldn't be blocked (really, the word 'pornography' should be a major tipoff that a site isn't pornographic), or, a major problem in my state, the government (filters are controled by the state of Utah, not districts or individual schools), using the filters to block access to information on birth control, homosexuality, any religion that they deem unacceptable, even blogs that criticize filters (that one was done by a filter company, not the state, I don't know if it was the same filter Utah uses).
It's not an aspect of the filter software itself either, the libraries don't block access to non porn gay sites or planned parenthood, someone made a deliberate decision to limit kids access to information they felt was 'bad', much of this information was already determined by the courts to not be acceptable to censor as well.
Filters that work for the purpose they claim to could be made, but nobody is really interested in using them, they'd rather buy the same stuff Iran uses (yes, really)
RHEL 4 is hardly EOL. RHEL 3 is still supported for that matter.
like having the 'browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped' setting set to true still allows the url bar to match on non-typed urls.
Matching only URLs you typed out doesn't sound like the old bars behavior to me, as I took advantage of it matching all URLs visited to look at my history for a given site. Or do you mean that 'browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped' works in 2 but not 3?
The professional dealers my source gets his weed from are more than happy to upsell him to addictive drugs, usually painkillers. Though he says that they only mention them if he asks about other stock, so I don't imagine it is a huge deal. I've had experience with family getting upsold, but it was always from one addictive substance to a stronger one (painkillers to heroin).
You'd think that, but the ISS was station number 3.
And the paper is 20 dollars to read :(
On the plus side, I'm apparently going to be quite the looker next year.
Paying more attention now, this is liquid helium cooled, not liquid nitrogen, that makes getting this cost effective a harder problem, since a bigger size would be much more expensive to maintain.
I say they can do it in 5.
Since reducing the fab size doesn't reduce resistance, it won't speed up a superconductive processor. If someone is willing to put up with a system size of a fridge, or entire building (and keep it cold), it will work just fine, potentially at speeds that are orders of magnitude above modern supercomputing. I very much doubt that this will ever see a consumer desktop, or even many server rooms. But anybody already in the supercomputing business would probably be happy to go through hell to be able to whatever it is their doing faster* at the same price.
*It will still take several minutes to boot because of the slow hard drive of course.
No, Opera, and every other browser, failed Acid 3*, then the developers made changes to try and pass the test, without any work at all in fixing the underlying problems that caused it to fail. If you want to be impressive, work on passing Acid 4.
*Opera was the least shitty iirc.
and an additional $258 per user 'since there is no need to upgrade hardware to support Vista and Office.'"
Since when have people been upgrading to vista?
Check the prices for a business version of office 2007, Vista upgrades aren't in that 258 figure.
The user must explicitly punch holes in their system to create most vulnerabilities.
Like by installing Quicktime. Wait...
Macs don't get viruses because they aren't common enough for people to bother, as they become more common, this may change, very quickly, especially given Apple's track record on patching holes and bugs in its application/plugin level products.
If they allow me to legally bypass CSS in order to watch the movies I own then what will I complain about?
While I would agree that not hosting on Youtube would be dumb, depending entirely on a service that might implode one day isn't really the best idea either, and a secondary hosting with a .mpeg and .oga (I think? whatever .oggs counterpart is) file for each won't be costly as long as youtube keeps running.
Here's a better question: When do you think anyone in their right mind will ok that procedure? Think about it, you're taking a perfectly alive human being and ... putting them at risk of death? For the purposes of? I know someone will compare this to the risk of life we took putting someone on the moon but I see little to no merit in this procedure.
To my understanding, the biggest thing they want this for is organ banking, a lot of donor organs go bad because the people who need them are too far away. If it ever really works for a whole person, it could also be used in triage situation, instead of picking who gets to die doctors could freeze everyone healthy enough to be revived, and deal with their injuries one at a time.
Linux has (probably) been over 1% for some time now. It's difficult to gage. Most current estimates run 1-3% (With a one showing less than one, and one showing 5%).
However, while those numbers are small, most reports on Linux share have shown a 50-100% increase in Linux's share over the last 2 years. Joking aside, 2008 really was the year of the Linux desktop (or rather, notebook). However, compared to to the monolith of windows, this progress is tiny, so I'll put it in a different perspective.
There are now as many or more people using Linux on the desktop than playing World of Warcraft
Since when do most computer consumers know what a processor is, or have an opinion about AMD?
Most people buy Intel because most people are shown an Intel machine by the sales people. Some of the very large OEMs don't even make AMD systems available. Personally, when I've done custom machines, or advised family on low end machine purchases, *every* one of them has chosen AMD when I gave the option, simply because the price for a given performance point was better.
And no, I'm not an AMD fangirl, I'm on an Intel right now, since Intel met my needs at the time the machine was bought, and AMD didn't, even if it was far cheaper.
Trust me when I say that improving schools starts with parents actually taking an interesting in their child's education.
Parents who would fail the 4th grade getting involved is supposed to help? I suppose it does force the kid to study and do his homework, but I've always felt that kids needing to do work at home is a weakness in education. If you have a kid for 6 hours a day, and he or she still needs to go home and do *more* in order to learn*, what exactly were those 6 hours for?
*I'm making an assumption that I was wrong as a child, and my teachers were not just feeding on my suffering by assigning homework (4th grade math not included, the homework there was designed to break our spirits.)
"If they wanted to actually get their point across, make it an expansion module to America's Army where you get promoted to a position that actually needs these skills to win the game. Think Petraeus in Iraq."
Thats actually what I thought this was when I saw the headline. Instead of a pure violence sim, the player has to protect, help rebuild, and try not to piss of locals and create a larger threat.
All the third party things Microsoft has the 'benefit' of aren't really things I want to see in Linux. Proprietary divers that never see anything but a buggy revision zero, viruses and trojans, buggy antivirus software, iTunes, horrifyingly bloated 'user experience' software that printers need DRMed games that infect ring 0 to take control, third party wireless networking software that can't be removed without pulling out the driver.
Once I wanted to flee from Windows to get away from Microsoft, these days, Microsoft seems like the most attractive part of windows, and everything else is why i want to avoid it.