Each page a user visits will require them to click a button to activate the underlying ActiveX control. Wow. BFD. And that is just for those websites that haven't updated their content by June. Chaotic? Far from it.
This could be a good thing, too, in terms of security. Imagine, having to click on a button before a website runs a script. You know, this might prevent malicious websites from spreading malware through a vulnerability in ActiveX, huh?
Where are they going to project power to, though? Europe? The US? Sure, they can park both their carriers on the Eastern seaboard, but even if the Harpoons don't get them, the hunter-killer subs would. I guess they can invade the Falklands again--this time as a team.
Being known as the "crazy" kid in school to the hoodlums is a good thing. I had to put a kid's head through the locker in Junior high to get them to leave me the hell alone. Parents need to be ready to fully back their children when they defend themselves.
It's all fun and games pretending you're crazy until the real crazy guy pulls out a knife or a gun. I saw it happen once, but I live in New York so your mileage may vary. I'd be more proactive about going to visit the school and finding the bully's parents. Then sue them and their daughter until they take care of her. Or file a police report and try to get their child a criminal record. I wouldn't espouse violence because it does not work in the "real" world.
Grandparent is discussing "native command queueing", where the hard disk will parse the OS read/write calls and stack them in a way that optimizes hardware access. Pretend there are three consecutive blocks of data on the hard drive: 1, 2, and 3. The OS calls for 1, 3, and then 2. Instead of going three spins around, NCQ will read the data in one spin in 1, 2, 3 order but then toss it out to the OS in 1, 3, 2 order. Now, I'm not sure how much higher sector sizes will affect NCQ capability, because I thought was limited by the amount of hardware cache.
The Lenovo Thinkpad T60 has ridiculously great build quality when compared to a Dell. You can actually press down on the back of the LCD screen without causing distortions on the LCD image. The keyboard is full-sized and solid. The laptop doesn't flex when you pick it up by a corner. You do get what you pay for.
Hey. This is nothing. The Brits are planning to stick a ramjet onto an air-to-air missile. I mean, come on, that's cool, right?
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No one using anything more recent than Office 97 will look at OpenOffice.org for the same reason they won't look (too hard) at Office 2007. Exactly what will Office 2007 bring to the table except for higher system requirements? Word 97 or Office 2003 is already feature-complete and relatively stable. No one is oging to be taking up Office 07 for a long time.
My firm reimburses only for Windows-compatible laptop purchases. Until now, I was stuck with a Thinkpad T60 with the CoreDuo but now I can argue that I can get a MacBook Pro. See?
Working at the DOJ for the time being, I have to point out that the lawyer who made the boo-boo in that case was from the TSA and not the DOJ. She is technically not a prosecutor, just a government lawyer associated with the case. She got hoodwinked by the airline's lawyers to supply information to witnesses. Government has to prove airlines could have prevented 9/11 had defendant cooperated with the FBI. That's clearly bad for the airlines.
There was a luggable PC with this "feature" way back in the 1990s: an LCD screen readable only with a special pair of glasses. Problem was, you had to sit exactly right to see anything. This was a tough proposition if you were using it in the cramped spaces the privacy feature would be most useful in: the subway, airplane, airport, etc. And you couldn't turn it off when you got home, either. Ech.
I spend $30 for TurboTax and did my fairly complicated federal and state income taxes in a half-hour. I e-filed from the program (a feature that was free) and then rested assured that if there was a mistake I would not be on the hook for it. I think that $30 was well-spent.
More advanced algorithms use more processor time on the compression part but not necesarily on the decompression (playback) part. For instance, FLAC takes forever to compress music, but takes minimal CPU time to decode. Developers of codecs have every incentive to get their code to playback with minimal CPU exertion because of the embedded processors on most portable media devices.
The Brits have come up with their own version of a scramjet powered air-to-air missile instead of buying the American version. With the F-35, the weapons are carried internally and having the source that runs everything may be useful because they can modify it to fit their missile. Also, the US is pretty much the only place to go for stealth. The Eurofighter 2K is not as good as the F-35 stealth.
The guy had all of his father's personal information in addition to the form. The form did not come filled out, nor was it sufficient to get the credit card by itself. I believe the point is that if you had all the information, you really do not need the form, ripped up or not.
It's called price discrimination. ATI can price the flagship part lower to capture larger marketshare but in doing so it would be giving up the premium that first-adopters were willing to pay for the bleeding-edge. Guys who are willing to pay $500 for a card can only pay $250. That's not so good from a business standpoint. Companies used to wait a few months before lowering prices so it could capture the first-adopter premium and the later-adopters who were not willing to pay as much as the first-adopters. Nevertheless, creating a "disabled" line of products allows them to capture elements of both markets at the highest possible prices at the same time, while capturing the time-shifted demand markets. The hardcore gamers would pay max-money for the premium product, not so hardcore gamers would pay a premium for the disabled product, and later-adopters would pay less money for both in a few months. Therefore, ATI hopes to capture the marketshare and maintain its profits.
The "Patriot Act" is actually the "PATRIOT Act". Because if you consider what it does to American civil liberties, it really deserves to be an acronym and not the figurative word "patriot".
Failure of Opera to work with JavaScript and CSS will reduce its marketshare in a web more and more dependent on AJAX technologies. Opera still does not work with Gmail. Certain features in the Gmail interface are not available under Opera. Meebo does not work with Opera as well. Websites should code better to support Opera but when you are talking about huge, commercial sites like Gmail, that would be the tail wagging the dog.
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Antitrust.
Each page a user visits will require them to click a button to activate the underlying ActiveX control. Wow. BFD. And that is just for those websites that haven't updated their content by June. Chaotic? Far from it.
This could be a good thing, too, in terms of security. Imagine, having to click on a button before a website runs a script. You know, this might prevent malicious websites from spreading malware through a vulnerability in ActiveX, huh?
And yet, we will accept the same from MicroSoft without the assurance of source ;-)
Nice Slashdotty comment, but Microsoft has $40 billion in cash sitting around. That's great reassurance they'll be around to fix the problem.
Where are they going to project power to, though? Europe? The US? Sure, they can park both their carriers on the Eastern seaboard, but even if the Harpoons don't get them, the hunter-killer subs would. I guess they can invade the Falklands again--this time as a team.
Heh. You think you're in a bad shape? I have a GeForce 4200Go. The only thing that's GOne was the support.
Being known as the "crazy" kid in school to the hoodlums is a good thing. I had to put a kid's head through the locker in Junior high to get them to leave me the hell alone. Parents need to be ready to fully back their children when they defend themselves.
It's all fun and games pretending you're crazy until the real crazy guy pulls out a knife or a gun. I saw it happen once, but I live in New York so your mileage may vary. I'd be more proactive about going to visit the school and finding the bully's parents. Then sue them and their daughter until they take care of her. Or file a police report and try to get their child a criminal record. I wouldn't espouse violence because it does not work in the "real" world.
Grandparent is discussing "native command queueing", where the hard disk will parse the OS read/write calls and stack them in a way that optimizes hardware access. Pretend there are three consecutive blocks of data on the hard drive: 1, 2, and 3. The OS calls for 1, 3, and then 2. Instead of going three spins around, NCQ will read the data in one spin in 1, 2, 3 order but then toss it out to the OS in 1, 3, 2 order. Now, I'm not sure how much higher sector sizes will affect NCQ capability, because I thought was limited by the amount of hardware cache.
The Lenovo Thinkpad T60 has ridiculously great build quality when compared to a Dell. You can actually press down on the back of the LCD screen without causing distortions on the LCD image. The keyboard is full-sized and solid. The laptop doesn't flex when you pick it up by a corner. You do get what you pay for.
Hey. This is nothing. The Brits are planning to stick a ramjet onto an air-to-air missile. I mean, come on, that's cool, right?
No one using anything more recent than Office 97 will look at OpenOffice.org for the same reason they won't look (too hard) at Office 2007. Exactly what will Office 2007 bring to the table except for higher system requirements? Word 97 or Office 2003 is already feature-complete and relatively stable. No one is oging to be taking up Office 07 for a long time.
My firm reimburses only for Windows-compatible laptop purchases. Until now, I was stuck with a Thinkpad T60 with the CoreDuo but now I can argue that I can get a MacBook Pro. See?
Working at the DOJ for the time being, I have to point out that the lawyer who made the boo-boo in that case was from the TSA and not the DOJ. She is technically not a prosecutor, just a government lawyer associated with the case. She got hoodwinked by the airline's lawyers to supply information to witnesses. Government has to prove airlines could have prevented 9/11 had defendant cooperated with the FBI. That's clearly bad for the airlines.
There was a luggable PC with this "feature" way back in the 1990s: an LCD screen readable only with a special pair of glasses. Problem was, you had to sit exactly right to see anything. This was a tough proposition if you were using it in the cramped spaces the privacy feature would be most useful in: the subway, airplane, airport, etc. And you couldn't turn it off when you got home, either. Ech.
I spend $30 for TurboTax and did my fairly complicated federal and state income taxes in a half-hour. I e-filed from the program (a feature that was free) and then rested assured that if there was a mistake I would not be on the hook for it. I think that $30 was well-spent.
You forgot over $8 TRILLION in public debt - $30,000 for EVERY man, woman, and child in the US.
WTF! Stop having kids! OMG!
Read this post: Here.
More advanced algorithms use more processor time on the compression part but not necesarily on the decompression (playback) part. For instance, FLAC takes forever to compress music, but takes minimal CPU time to decode. Developers of codecs have every incentive to get their code to playback with minimal CPU exertion because of the embedded processors on most portable media devices.
Google the MBDA Meteor. Okay, so it isn't in production yet, but it seems firm.
Depends. Do you like your prostate more or your stomach?
"I vote for the later, since I'd rather be invited to an orgy, than be shot."
How about shooting someone?
The Brits have come up with their own version of a scramjet powered air-to-air missile instead of buying the American version. With the F-35, the weapons are carried internally and having the source that runs everything may be useful because they can modify it to fit their missile. Also, the US is pretty much the only place to go for stealth. The Eurofighter 2K is not as good as the F-35 stealth.
The guy had all of his father's personal information in addition to the form. The form did not come filled out, nor was it sufficient to get the credit card by itself. I believe the point is that if you had all the information, you really do not need the form, ripped up or not.
It's called price discrimination. ATI can price the flagship part lower to capture larger marketshare but in doing so it would be giving up the premium that first-adopters were willing to pay for the bleeding-edge. Guys who are willing to pay $500 for a card can only pay $250. That's not so good from a business standpoint. Companies used to wait a few months before lowering prices so it could capture the first-adopter premium and the later-adopters who were not willing to pay as much as the first-adopters. Nevertheless, creating a "disabled" line of products allows them to capture elements of both markets at the highest possible prices at the same time, while capturing the time-shifted demand markets. The hardcore gamers would pay max-money for the premium product, not so hardcore gamers would pay a premium for the disabled product, and later-adopters would pay less money for both in a few months. Therefore, ATI hopes to capture the marketshare and maintain its profits.
The "Patriot Act" is actually the "PATRIOT Act". Because if you consider what it does to American civil liberties, it really deserves to be an acronym and not the figurative word "patriot".
Failure of Opera to work with JavaScript and CSS will reduce its marketshare in a web more and more dependent on AJAX technologies. Opera still does not work with Gmail. Certain features in the Gmail interface are not available under Opera. Meebo does not work with Opera as well. Websites should code better to support Opera but when you are talking about huge, commercial sites like Gmail, that would be the tail wagging the dog.
No, actually the "exploit" in question targets hosts by running a copy of VM with malicious trans-platform code. Haha.