So if we don't use Mozilla, what the hell is the unices community supposed to use? Yeah, there's a few other browsers out there but they support standards even worse than IE does!
When is the damn Congress going to realize that they're throwing away civil rights on the Internet? First off, they shouldn't have a right to censor anything. Second, they definitely shouldn't have a right to censor the Internet since it is international. Last, if they are going to try to censor the Internet with their own "American" laws, then should have to follow the laws setup by the constitution and the amendments! If they did this to the American society (as apposed to the Internet society) they would be stopped or thrown out of office come next election but you see nothing of the sorts now.
I don't think the American government truly understands that this is another society. Heck, even most of the American public don't realize that. People are tired of American politics where the minority now rules and money and the media dictates our laws. The Internet is a whole different society and if the senate wants to try to get involved with it, then they should follow the same civil liberties that they (i.e., the Senate in general) setup in the constitution.
Sometime back there was a bunch of news flying around about a supposed "backdoor" into Microsoft's CryptoAPI for use by the NSA. Now, even while I agree that PGP is the answer, I'm sure there's those who will use SSL certs through Outlook Express or something that might give way to that supposed backdoor. So now, I guess, we will find out (somehow) if that rumor was correct
If it exists and if the FBI has access to use it, someone's gotta say something eventually (the FBI can't hide the aliens or Mulder's whereabouts for ever!)
No it won't. I've been following this for a while and a small group of us through the Mozilla newgroup might start working on a project to add it in through Mozilla's nsCOM interfaces (so much easier now without the explicit plugin API). There is, of course / as always, government restrictions on Americans exporting certain grades of encryption with certain ciphers (but no restrictions on them watching us!
No where in the article did I see exactly what it does. It said that it silences the phone, but does that mean it makes it more quiet or that it shuts off the cell phone sound completely. There was a line in the article that implies the former, but just in case...
I think it would be nice to make the "silencer" customizable by the organization Bluetooth is installed in. Say, for instance, the organization would rather turn it to buzz mode than have any sound at all, like a church where everything is really quite quiet. Plus, who couldn't use a little "buzz" to keep them alert at some services!;-)
Personally, I wouldn't mind some organization "buzzing" me while I'm busy. "Gets me all tingly inside!"
No, it isn't censorship. They were protecting their patents and copyrights. What E-Bay was doing wasn't exactly illegal (rather, the people on E-Bay selling the M$ products) but it was a pretty bad loophole that was costing them (actually, just their marketting people more than likely) money for a product they worked years on to produce, which is where the patents come in.
And on the sixth day, Bill created another new, proprietary language and - guess what - it wasn't good!
Has anyone actually looked at this crap? Yeah, it's cool that it tries to natively incorporate XML/SOAP and all these newer Internet standards to push.com's to the edge of technology, but isn't that what Sun's been doing with Java? And (this is really good), the code - as much as my eyes could stand to read, anyway - looked exactly like Java! Ouch. And Bill said this wasn't going to be a replacement or competitor of Java.
Whatever, Bill. It's the seventh day. Give it a rest already!
Did princess Di have a choice, really? I mean, how do you say no to the prince of England? Did Elian Gonzoles have a choice to get shoved into the public eye and be whored by reporters? Guess again.
I don't know about everyone out there reading this, but most people I know, despite what the media thinks, hates the liberal media's idea of good media, when they're beating down the doors of public figures and even some private figures and defend their actions with "we have the right to get into their lives since they're public figures." Whatever (Maybe someone should tear into their lives and see how they like it)
My point is that on many web sites that are open media like Jon Katz defined, people do have a chance to voice their opinion and if there are columnists and editors who do post stories people generally don't like (And I've seen some pretty nice figures - however much they've been molded - to support people don't generally like gossip), the people will let them know.
So maybe the new open media will put a stop to bad stories or reporters / paparazi chasing around unwilling people and driving princesses off the road.
Notebooks based on the TM 5400 chip and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system are expected to begin shipping in North America and Japan in the second half of the year.
Windows is a resource hog. After Tranmeta has spent such a long time developing good code for its processors to save power and, from what I hear, make the chip faster than the current i386 architecture, why put a resource hog on a machine with such potential.
Take a look at the Palm top computers. They're running on 2 AAA and the PalmOS and the new Linux palm (I really have to trade-up for one of those!) and even the color palms last longer than Windows CE palm-tops. You would think companies like NEC would have realized this and put a better operating system on, but I guess it's still a Windows world out there.
Hopefully, though, it won't take long until we start seeing Transmeta-based Linux boxes, hopefully sooner than it took to see them on Intel-based boxes like we have seen recently with Dell and what not.
I've always hated reviewers. Siskel and Ebert always gave really good action, comedy and animated films bad ratings and these dumb, independant, hard-to-understand films good ratings. And why, might you ask? Because they're paid to do it. Their mind, which was once stuck on the ideas and emotions struck up behind the movie, has been clouded over and drives on the money they'll get for doing their job and promoting the right people (yeah, like there's no inside money going on with some of these critics).
I haven't seen Titan AE but it looks really good. So if you saw it and liked it, I say great and I'd be more apt to accept your opinion than some guy who does this for a living.
What the government has failed to see when this whole ordeal began is that IE was embedded into Windows and eventually became Windows. So what, you might as? Here's partially why...
We all know writing HTML code is far easier than programming some pretty intense gui's. By making IE into Windows, a developer can easily create a shell extension without having to do a lot (if any) programming. Also, by tying IE into the system, the Internet and the desktop become one. Yes, anyone can still use Netscape as their default browser (I sure as hell do when I'm using Windows), but having IE be the system makes things easier for both Microsoft and end users by providing updates to Windows through a nice web interface that previously in the past was decryptive on which components to install. Now, a since engine built on IE tells you what you need (even though you still have the option of downloading it).
As much as I like Linux and the fact that Mozilla (Netsacpe 6) will be cross platform and introduce the same embeddable technology IE did years ago for programmers, IE does leverage a lot of easy interfaces for developers. It sure has helped me when creating shell extensions for the company I work in.
So, IE would definitely be better suited for the Windows group of the (new) Microsoft company.
At the company I work for now, we used CodeWarrior for Windows and Macintosh development. Of course, we did have a few problems and didn't really need to target the Macintosh platform anyway, so we dropped it.
So, yes, the IDE (with toolkits) did have a few problems but mostly in the way of TCP and UDP (which our application needed). The toolkits seemed to work fine.
It is important to note that world-reknown physicist Stephen Hawkings has hypothesized that radio waves are actually spewed from black holes, perhaps remnants of what has gone in and that could even tell us information about what actually has entered the black hole. He has a lot of interesting stuff he's written about, such as using black holes for space-time travel (not explicitely stated, but many ideas to build your own) and I encourage anyone interested in black holes to pick up one of many copies of his work and read it! Enjoy!
Yes, but with macro viruses using M$ Word or a similar office component, there is a unique ID associated with every package. This was talked about a while back when Melissa first came out. Using this and other methods, you can find the originator and arrest them. The ILOVEYOU virus author was caught as I understand it.
So now we have the Playstation, the Nintendo, the Dreamcast, and now companies are adding a zillion more. Obviously, the independant game designers out there can't be to happy, so perhaps they should start porting to Linux. I mean, alread the way it is, I'm sure several game designers are going to port their games to several different boxes built on several different console platforms. I believe, while they're at it, they might as well port to Linux as well.
Or perhaps an even better idea would be to develop a standard for all systems (kind of like DirectX on (forgive me) Windows, but for all platforms). I believe that Apple was working on something like this for a while. Then, perhaps, the next generation of consoles could still have their quirks that make them unique like a DVD drive or more memory or somethign along those lines, and developers could even optimize their code for the specific types, but there could still exist a standard development platform for designers wishing to port their games elsewhere.
So, I guess you could say this is a call to action. Perhaps the Linux community should start a foundation and get other companies to join in. What do you think?
Before delving into this discussion, has anyone checked out the site? I mean, with a Gesture recognition engine and all, it's gotta rock. I hate having to remember what icons do what and what buttons to push on the keyboard / controller.
Now the real issue...
While working at a job once where nothing happened, several of us sys admins got bored and started playing this tank game (bzFlag) designed for SGI Irix and eventually open sourced. Well, when I got really bored, I started hacking the code and could toggle invulnerability, oscillation overthruster, several other things, and could even type in a player name and a laser would shoot out of the sky and destroy them (thought that part wasn't perfect code:P ). And you know what the other guys finally did? Either not play anymore or go to a lab where I couldn't play my hacked source and lower the ttl count so I couldn't play from my office. Basically, I was black-listed.
So for everyone out there who is worried about people hacking up their source, learn from me... You WILL be black-listed and you WON'T have any fun in doing so. Perhaps Lionhead Studios will take a measure to ensure original binaries (well, compiled from gcc or whatever is needed) and perhaps they'll let users keep a list of "friends" whom they only play with that can be trusted, but the most notible counter-measure is the users themselves black-listing other users for cheating.
The fact that this may be open-sourced is cool. It's worth it. I've checked out the site and I've never been this excited about a game ever. Many new innovations will make this game rock and, personally, I can't wait to see how it's done.
No, there will be no ties with the OS and the rendering engine. Netscape was even so kind as to build their own component object model, so that the browser object is cross-platform.
One thing/. readers might keep in mind, though, that most people who use Linux aren't dumb enough to open and run an executable attachment in email from someone we don't know. And thanks to/., readers can know very quickly if a new virus is out (how 'bout it,/.? Think a section or side-box is worthy of posting new viruses when they hit mainstream?) At least we'll be seeing more creativity in viruses on Linux than these d#$m macro-viruses that takes no brains to write!
Okay, the information age is way past us now. This isn't the first legislation to be passed concerning information technology. Something must be done to ensure our freedom online. Several years ago, I had a chance to design a web site for Al Gore (even got to talk to him once, exciting?). It was then while talking with him and conversing with his internist secretary several times a week that I realized the government doesn't know *jack* about technology. We all need to take some serious effort, contact our local government offices, and start voting (if you haven't been already) for people who know something about the Internet and everything else that makes up information technology. I'm not plugging anyone here, but McCain (R) is totally against Internet taxes and putting "stamps" on email. This is just one example. I know that my home state gives laptops to the House, but they don't have a clue how to use them effectively. Are these really the people you want passing bills that covers our futures? Take a stand and let's get some statesmen (and women) who know something about computers before all our futures in info. tech. are shot.
I think this whole DVD issue is getting looked at wrong in the face of justice! Okay, so maybe DeCSS is/should be illegal, but isn't it also illegal to monopolize DVD? Windows does DVD, Apple does DVD, why can't Linux? You would think that after everything Microsoft has gone through in court, the courts would start looking at this issue different instead of helping the monopolization of DVD! Is there anyone else in this forum that agrees (and thinks we should start mass-emailing the right people on Capitol Hill, which would be who?) and doesn't have something stupid to say like First posting?
A lot of what's said in the comics in question is about some dumb stuff people say that should be common sense. I've had people before when I worked tech that didn't even know your computer needs to be plugged into the wall or to have their modem plugged into the jack to make them work! Plus, if this guy thinks we should censor the comics, then we should treat him like any other censor in this country and tell him not to read it. I would suspect the "people" being made fun of probably don't even know about these comics. If techies didn't relate some of their funny stories or vent some frustration with harsh clients, you'd have a lot of sullen techies.
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So if we don't use Mozilla, what the hell is the unices community supposed to use? Yeah, there's a few other browsers out there but they support standards even worse than IE does!
When is the damn Congress going to realize that they're throwing away civil rights on the Internet? First off, they shouldn't have a right to censor anything. Second, they definitely shouldn't have a right to censor the Internet since it is international. Last, if they are going to try to censor the Internet with their own "American" laws, then should have to follow the laws setup by the constitution and the amendments! If they did this to the American society (as apposed to the Internet society) they would be stopped or thrown out of office come next election but you see nothing of the sorts now.
I don't think the American government truly understands that this is another society. Heck, even most of the American public don't realize that. People are tired of American politics where the minority now rules and money and the media dictates our laws. The Internet is a whole different society and if the senate wants to try to get involved with it, then they should follow the same civil liberties that they (i.e., the Senate in general) setup in the constitution.
Sometime back there was a bunch of news flying around about a supposed "backdoor" into Microsoft's CryptoAPI for use by the NSA. Now, even while I agree that PGP is the answer, I'm sure there's those who will use SSL certs through Outlook Express or something that might give way to that supposed backdoor. So now, I guess, we will find out (somehow) if that rumor was correct
If it exists and if the FBI has access to use it, someone's gotta say something eventually (the FBI can't hide the aliens or Mulder's whereabouts for ever!)
No it won't. I've been following this for a while and a small group of us through the Mozilla newgroup might start working on a project to add it in through Mozilla's nsCOM interfaces (so much easier now without the explicit plugin API). There is, of course / as always, government restrictions on Americans exporting certain grades of encryption with certain ciphers (but no restrictions on them watching us!
No where in the article did I see exactly what it does. It said that it silences the phone, but does that mean it makes it more quiet or that it shuts off the cell phone sound completely. There was a line in the article that implies the former, but just in case...
I think it would be nice to make the "silencer" customizable by the organization Bluetooth is installed in. Say, for instance, the organization would rather turn it to buzz mode than have any sound at all, like a church where everything is really quite quiet. Plus, who couldn't use a little "buzz" to keep them alert at some services! ;-)
Personally, I wouldn't mind some organization "buzzing" me while I'm busy. "Gets me all tingly inside!"
No, it isn't censorship. They were protecting their patents and copyrights. What E-Bay was doing wasn't exactly illegal (rather, the people on E-Bay selling the M$ products) but it was a pretty bad loophole that was costing them (actually, just their marketting people more than likely) money for a product they worked years on to produce, which is where the patents come in.
Has anyone actually looked at this crap? Yeah, it's cool that it tries to natively incorporate XML/SOAP and all these newer Internet standards to push .com's to the edge of technology, but isn't that what Sun's been doing with Java? And (this is really good), the code - as much as my eyes could stand to read, anyway - looked exactly like Java! Ouch. And Bill said this wasn't going to be a replacement or competitor of Java.
Whatever, Bill. It's the seventh day. Give it a rest already!
Did princess Di have a choice, really? I mean, how do you say no to the prince of England? Did Elian Gonzoles have a choice to get shoved into the public eye and be whored by reporters? Guess again.
I don't know about everyone out there reading this, but most people I know, despite what the media thinks, hates the liberal media's idea of good media, when they're beating down the doors of public figures and even some private figures and defend their actions with "we have the right to get into their lives since they're public figures." Whatever (Maybe someone should tear into their lives and see how they like it)
My point is that on many web sites that are open media like Jon Katz defined, people do have a chance to voice their opinion and if there are columnists and editors who do post stories people generally don't like (And I've seen some pretty nice figures - however much they've been molded - to support people don't generally like gossip), the people will let them know.
So maybe the new open media will put a stop to bad stories or reporters / paparazi chasing around unwilling people and driving princesses off the road.
Notebooks based on the TM 5400 chip and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system are expected to begin shipping in North America and Japan in the second half of the year.
Windows is a resource hog. After Tranmeta has spent such a long time developing good code for its processors to save power and, from what I hear, make the chip faster than the current i386 architecture, why put a resource hog on a machine with such potential.
Take a look at the Palm top computers. They're running on 2 AAA and the PalmOS and the new Linux palm (I really have to trade-up for one of those!) and even the color palms last longer than Windows CE palm-tops. You would think companies like NEC would have realized this and put a better operating system on, but I guess it's still a Windows world out there.
Hopefully, though, it won't take long until we start seeing Transmeta-based Linux boxes, hopefully sooner than it took to see them on Intel-based boxes like we have seen recently with Dell and what not.
I've always hated reviewers. Siskel and Ebert always gave really good action, comedy and animated films bad ratings and these dumb, independant, hard-to-understand films good ratings. And why, might you ask? Because they're paid to do it. Their mind, which was once stuck on the ideas and emotions struck up behind the movie, has been clouded over and drives on the money they'll get for doing their job and promoting the right people (yeah, like there's no inside money going on with some of these critics).
I haven't seen Titan AE but it looks really good. So if you saw it and liked it, I say great and I'd be more apt to accept your opinion than some guy who does this for a living.
Apparently, Microsoft thinks buying into "Bungie" will help them "bounce" back after the government puts the smack down!
What the government has failed to see when this whole ordeal began is that IE was embedded into Windows and eventually became Windows. So what, you might as? Here's partially why...
We all know writing HTML code is far easier than programming some pretty intense gui's. By making IE into Windows, a developer can easily create a shell extension without having to do a lot (if any) programming. Also, by tying IE into the system, the Internet and the desktop become one. Yes, anyone can still use Netscape as their default browser (I sure as hell do when I'm using Windows), but having IE be the system makes things easier for both Microsoft and end users by providing updates to Windows through a nice web interface that previously in the past was decryptive on which components to install. Now, a since engine built on IE tells you what you need (even though you still have the option of downloading it).
As much as I like Linux and the fact that Mozilla (Netsacpe 6) will be cross platform and introduce the same embeddable technology IE did years ago for programmers, IE does leverage a lot of easy interfaces for developers. It sure has helped me when creating shell extensions for the company I work in.
So, IE would definitely be better suited for the Windows group of the (new) Microsoft company.
At the company I work for now, we used CodeWarrior for Windows and Macintosh development. Of course, we did have a few problems and didn't really need to target the Macintosh platform anyway, so we dropped it.
So, yes, the IDE (with toolkits) did have a few problems but mostly in the way of TCP and UDP (which our application needed). The toolkits seemed to work fine.
Hope that helps.
It is important to note that world-reknown physicist Stephen Hawkings has hypothesized that radio waves are actually spewed from black holes, perhaps remnants of what has gone in and that could even tell us information about what actually has entered the black hole. He has a lot of interesting stuff he's written about, such as using black holes for space-time travel (not explicitely stated, but many ideas to build your own) and I encourage anyone interested in black holes to pick up one of many copies of his work and read it! Enjoy!
Yes, but with macro viruses using M$ Word or a similar office component, there is a unique ID associated with every package. This was talked about a while back when Melissa first came out. Using this and other methods, you can find the originator and arrest them. The ILOVEYOU virus author was caught as I understand it.
So now we have the Playstation, the Nintendo, the Dreamcast, and now companies are adding a zillion more. Obviously, the independant game designers out there can't be to happy, so perhaps they should start porting to Linux. I mean, alread the way it is, I'm sure several game designers are going to port their games to several different boxes built on several different console platforms. I believe, while they're at it, they might as well port to Linux as well.
Or perhaps an even better idea would be to develop a standard for all systems (kind of like DirectX on (forgive me) Windows, but for all platforms). I believe that Apple was working on something like this for a while. Then, perhaps, the next generation of consoles could still have their quirks that make them unique like a DVD drive or more memory or somethign along those lines, and developers could even optimize their code for the specific types, but there could still exist a standard development platform for designers wishing to port their games elsewhere.
So, I guess you could say this is a call to action. Perhaps the Linux community should start a foundation and get other companies to join in. What do you think?
Before delving into this discussion, has anyone checked out the site? I mean, with a Gesture recognition engine and all, it's gotta rock. I hate having to remember what icons do what and what buttons to push on the keyboard / controller.
Now the real issue...
While working at a job once where nothing happened, several of us sys admins got bored and started playing this tank game (bzFlag) designed for SGI Irix and eventually open sourced. Well, when I got really bored, I started hacking the code and could toggle invulnerability, oscillation overthruster, several other things, and could even type in a player name and a laser would shoot out of the sky and destroy them (thought that part wasn't perfect code :P ). And you know what the other guys finally did? Either not play anymore or go to a lab where I couldn't play my hacked source and lower the ttl count so I couldn't play from my office. Basically, I was black-listed.
So for everyone out there who is worried about people hacking up their source, learn from me... You WILL be black-listed and you WON'T have any fun in doing so. Perhaps Lionhead Studios will take a measure to ensure original binaries (well, compiled from gcc or whatever is needed) and perhaps they'll let users keep a list of "friends" whom they only play with that can be trusted, but the most notible counter-measure is the users themselves black-listing other users for cheating.
The fact that this may be open-sourced is cool. It's worth it. I've checked out the site and I've never been this excited about a game ever. Many new innovations will make this game rock and, personally, I can't wait to see how it's done.
Why not? WINE did it with Windows.
No, there will be no ties with the OS and the rendering engine. Netscape was even so kind as to build their own component object model, so that the browser object is cross-platform.
One thing /. readers might keep in mind, though, that most people who use Linux aren't dumb enough to open and run an executable attachment in email from someone we don't know. And thanks to /., readers can know very quickly if a new virus is out (how 'bout it, /.? Think a section or side-box is worthy of posting new viruses when they hit mainstream?) At least we'll be seeing more creativity in viruses on Linux than these d#$m macro-viruses that takes no brains to write!
Okay, the information age is way past us now. This isn't the first legislation to be passed concerning information technology. Something must be done to ensure our freedom online. Several years ago, I had a chance to design a web site for Al Gore (even got to talk to him once, exciting?). It was then while talking with him and conversing with his internist secretary several times a week that I realized the government doesn't know *jack* about technology. We all need to take some serious effort, contact our local government offices, and start voting (if you haven't been already) for people who know something about the Internet and everything else that makes up information technology. I'm not plugging anyone here, but McCain (R) is totally against Internet taxes and putting "stamps" on email. This is just one example. I know that my home state gives laptops to the House, but they don't have a clue how to use them effectively. Are these really the people you want passing bills that covers our futures? Take a stand and let's get some statesmen (and women) who know something about computers before all our futures in info. tech. are shot.
I think this whole DVD issue is getting looked at wrong in the face of justice! Okay, so maybe DeCSS is/should be illegal, but isn't it also illegal to monopolize DVD? Windows does DVD, Apple does DVD, why can't Linux? You would think that after everything Microsoft has gone through in court, the courts would start looking at this issue different instead of helping the monopolization of DVD! Is there anyone else in this forum that agrees (and thinks we should start mass-emailing the right people on Capitol Hill, which would be who?) and doesn't have something stupid to say like First posting?
A lot of what's said in the comics in question is about some dumb stuff people say that should be common sense. I've had people before when I worked tech that didn't even know your computer needs to be plugged into the wall or to have their modem plugged into the jack to make them work! Plus, if this guy thinks we should censor the comics, then we should treat him like any other censor in this country and tell him not to read it. I would suspect the "people" being made fun of probably don't even know about these comics. If techies didn't relate some of their funny stories or vent some frustration with harsh clients, you'd have a lot of sullen techies.