MS didn't say they were killing off IE on Windows, they just said they weren't going to release any more stand-alone versions. In other words, IE development will continue, but it'll be integrated into Windows.
And another thing - you do realize that IE for Windows and IE for Mac are two separate products, developed by two separate teams at MS?
And as has been stated many times before, you only think it's not a global site because you live in the US. A poll a while ago showed that around half of/. readers are actually living outside the US. Showing UTC is not being "politically correct" - it's being helpful to all those people who don't know and don't care what EST is.
'Despite the high technology and fabulous effects of the movie, it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.'
Which three divine religions would those be? I'm pretty sure I don't believe in any of the ones they have in mind.
Now, if that included the Jedi religion, I might be wrong...
Well, you could look at it that way, or you could look at it this way:
IBM is the bank. Currently, the SCO gang are in the process of drilling through the vault door. IBM has told all the people that have deposited money with them that their savings are guaranteed, even if the SCO gang manages to find a way to get the money out.
Just to make you feel worse, I've got 1.5Mbps/512Kbps ADSL (up/down) in Japan, and although I don't keep track of my bandwidth usage, I imagine I'd do somewhere around 1-3GB a day.
IBM will guarantee its customers protection from any indemnity, and they'll keep on running AIX. Come Friday, everybody will be happily running unlicensed copies of AIX in the knowledge that IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
1) There's around 50,000 Chinese characters used in the Japanese language. Of those, around 2000 are used regularly.
2) Entering Japanese requires only that you type in the phonetic reading. You can then convert that (wholly or in part) to a mixture of Kanji (the Chinese characters), hiragana (the standard Japanese phonetic 'alphabet') and katakana (which is almost exactly equivalent to hiragana, but is usually used for writing terms imported from foreign languages and for emphasis, among other things).
3) A Japanese typist can do a lot more than 10wpm. Shit, a schoolgirl on her mobile phone can do more than that one-handed (there was a survey recently conducted by a Japanese university professor that showed that young people who regularly use a mobile phone for mail can type at up to half the speed of a person using a full keyboard).
I seem to recall some company made something similar to this - a CD-ROM drive with a built-in hard drive, where the content of the CD was cached on the HDD to allow quicker access.
This would have been quite a while ago. Anybody else remember these?
I had a Shuttle that blew its PSU after two days of 100% CPU usage, one month before the warranty ran out.
Unfortunately, being the inquisitive git I am, I cracked it open to see what failed (looked like a transformer basically melted from the heat), which broke the seal on it. Short story is they refused to replace it for free - I paid about $US25 for a new one.
They're not really made for heavy use, although they are good as a second home box for the kids.
Oh bollocks. Sparc 5s and Sparc 10s ran on CPUs that would be considered underpowered in a PDA these days. Sure, they got good throughput compared with PCs of the time thanks to their more sensible bus, but they don't stand a hope in Hell of keeping up with any modern CPU (and that includes C3s).
ISPs used to regularly run high-volume email/DNS servers on machines ten times slower than that ITX box. It should be able to handle anything an individual might want to do.
You didn't try it, did you? What I meant by that comment was not that I couldn't enter Japanese (not a problem), but rather that Outlook screws up such a mail by insisting that the encoding is ISO-8859-1 rather than JIS, which tends to confuse most mail clients when they receive such a message.
If this version is anything like the last it will automagically detect your distribution and use its default package management system.
Sorry, no... from the install script:
# Not running on an RPM system bail_nonrpm () {
echo
echo "The Ximian Installer currently only supports RPM-based systems."
echo "For more information about Ximian's currently supported "
echo "distributions, please visit http://www.ximian.com/."
Well, to be fair, Japanese support under the English version of Outlook ain't so hot either (see what happens when you receive an ISO-8859-1 message and use Japanese in your reply...).
Still, you do have a point - Evolution is basically unusable as a day-to-day mail client for multi-byte languages. Personally, I use Sylpheed, which is getting closer and closer to that magic 1.0 mark.
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It'll get even worse when the RIAA starts screaming that DRM needs DRM.
At leat they'll be prepared for working in the Real World(tm)...
MS has no plans to develop IE further anyways for any platform
So, you're saying that doesn't mean they're killing it off? Make up your mind and sort out your story, dude.
MS didn't say they were killing off IE on Windows, they just said they weren't going to release any more stand-alone versions. In other words, IE development will continue, but it'll be integrated into Windows.
And another thing - you do realize that IE for Windows and IE for Mac are two separate products, developed by two separate teams at MS?
And as has been stated many times before, you only think it's not a global site because you live in the US. /. readers are actually living outside the US. Showing UTC is not being "politically correct" - it's being helpful to all those people who don't know and don't care what EST is.
A poll a while ago showed that around half of
Since I don't read Cringely, hardly...
'Despite the high technology and fabulous effects of the movie, it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.'
Which three divine religions would those be? I'm pretty sure I don't believe in any of the ones they have in mind.
Now, if that included the Jedi religion, I might be wrong...
Well, you could look at it that way, or you could look at it this way:
IBM is the bank. Currently, the SCO gang are in the process of drilling through the vault door. IBM has told all the people that have deposited money with them that their savings are guaranteed, even if the SCO gang manages to find a way to get the money out.
Just to make you feel worse, I've got 1.5Mbps/512Kbps ADSL (up/down) in Japan, and although I don't keep track of my bandwidth usage, I imagine I'd do somewhere around 1-3GB a day.
I pay about what you do.
Believe me, they can - it's quite amazing. (The FEP on mobile phones in Japan these days has improved a lot, too, which helps).
He didn't mean that the scripts stopped working; he meant that strip didn't work on the scripts.
I'm praying you're not serious.
IBM will guarantee its customers protection from any indemnity, and they'll keep on running AIX. Come Friday, everybody will be happily running unlicensed copies of AIX in the knowledge that IT WON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.
Sorry, SCO, you lose.
Boy, where to start with a post like that...
1) There's around 50,000 Chinese characters used in the Japanese language. Of those, around 2000 are used regularly.
2) Entering Japanese requires only that you type in the phonetic reading. You can then convert that (wholly or in part) to a mixture of Kanji (the Chinese characters), hiragana (the standard Japanese phonetic 'alphabet') and katakana (which is almost exactly equivalent to hiragana, but is usually used for writing terms imported from foreign languages and for emphasis, among other things).
3) A Japanese typist can do a lot more than 10wpm. Shit, a schoolgirl on her mobile phone can do more than that one-handed (there was a survey recently conducted by a Japanese university professor that showed that young people who regularly use a mobile phone for mail can type at up to half the speed of a person using a full keyboard).
I seem to recall some company made something similar to this - a CD-ROM drive with a built-in hard drive, where the content of the CD was cached on the HDD to allow quicker access.
This would have been quite a while ago. Anybody else remember these?
Already been done. The first 52X CD-ROM drives (from Kenwood, as I recall) used multiple read heads to get 52X equivalent speed.
Beware - the Ultra 5 is not exactly quiet.
Hah! I suspected as much.
I had a Shuttle that blew its PSU after two days of 100% CPU usage, one month before the warranty ran out.
Unfortunately, being the inquisitive git I am, I cracked it open to see what failed (looked like a transformer basically melted from the heat), which broke the seal on it. Short story is they refused to replace it for free - I paid about $US25 for a new one.
They're not really made for heavy use, although they are good as a second home box for the kids.
Oh bollocks.
Sparc 5s and Sparc 10s ran on CPUs that would be considered underpowered in a PDA these days.
Sure, they got good throughput compared with PCs of the time thanks to their more sensible bus, but they don't stand a hope in Hell of keeping up with any modern CPU (and that includes C3s).
I can tell that you came into servers late...
ISPs used to regularly run high-volume email/DNS servers on machines ten times slower than that ITX box. It should be able to handle anything an individual might want to do.
You didn't try it, did you? What I meant by that comment was not that I couldn't enter Japanese (not a problem), but rather that Outlook screws up such a mail by insisting that the encoding is ISO-8859-1 rather than JIS, which tends to confuse most mail clients when they receive such a message.
Shit, my card only gets 10 megapixels an hour.
If this version is anything like the last it will automagically detect your distribution and use its default package management system.
Sorry, no... from the install script:
# Not running on an RPM system
bail_nonrpm () {
echo
echo "The Ximian Installer currently only supports RPM-based systems."
echo "For more information about Ximian's currently supported "
echo "distributions, please visit http://www.ximian.com/."
cleanup
exit 1
}
Well, to be fair, Japanese support under the English version of Outlook ain't so hot either (see what happens when you receive an ISO-8859-1 message and use Japanese in your reply...).
Still, you do have a point - Evolution is basically unusable as a day-to-day mail client for multi-byte languages. Personally, I use Sylpheed, which is getting closer and closer to that magic 1.0 mark.
He's already announced that he's quitting Nullsoft, so it's a bit of a moot point.