You have that backwards. Windows deletes slower so that if someone deletes your C drive, you've got a better chance to stop him before too many important files are gone. You see, Windows is again shown to be more secure than Linux:-)
In that case, perhaps you would like to "upgrade" your system to a "better" one by swapping it for this 386SX-16 system I have here? You'll have loads more time to save those files, and since It's even got the more memory efficient Windows 3.11 you won't be able to use any of those dangerous web-enabled applications......!
IBM prefers the reception it gets at home. Big Blue is consolidating its support operations in Atlanta. "We believe the right skills to do the job and meet customer requirements were best found here in the States," says Tom Conway, director of service for IBM Global services.
Another good reason that us Geeks should be cheering for IBM these days. OK They're not philanthropists and no doubt the accountants hold as much sway there as anywhere else, but they do seem to be thinking a bit further ahead than tomorrows bottom line, unlike many other companies I could mention.
Bullshit. It's not like the "commercialisation" is removing literature, research, and raw data from the Internet.
No, it's just burying the content under a pile of adverts, 'portals', keword-spammers and such. The example you give uses a couple of esoteric words, so its not surprising the results are all research. Information on more commonplace subjects is harder (I'll admit, not impossible) to find. 35% of my email is spam, all of which is promoting commercial enterprises. Web sites get slower and slower as the advertising banners, pop-unders, flash 'pop-overs' and other marketing devices use up more and more bandwidth. I can see that some sites need advertising to run, but does it have to be so intrusive? Don't blame others because your site isn't interesting enough to go to If you'd actually bothered to read my post you'd see I'm not 'blaming others' that my site is not 'interesting enough'. I know its of (virtually) no interest to most people. But I just don't understand why it is not listed at all not why its hard to find. I get the odd email from time to time from people who've read stuff there and found it useful, but they've found it through other search engines. I'm not blaming anyone, I just made the comment because it seemed to me that Google had started to become harder and harder to get listed on for non-commercial sites. You have to admit that the link to the page for site submissions is not exactly easy to find, is it?
LOL yes, I suppose.. but a few hints, like there's something to find might be nice:o) Until the above post I'd never heard of WSH other than a vague impression that there was a scripting thing built into windows (because it's mentioned in the various articles on viruses etc) I'd not read anything that described how to use it, and I've been using windows since Windows 1.x and have an extensive library of computer books and magazines... I guess I must just not have the right book to tell me about WSH. So I think to say i'm *attacking* WSH is overdoing it a bit. Well I guess now I know what to search for I can look on Google!
I like Google too.. I'd just be even more pleased if I thought my site was on it somewhere.... Like I said, it's probably something silly that's wrong, but twice now I've read the instructions, submitted the site, and... nothing. Silly thing is, I'm sure it used to be on there a couple of years ago. Its on alltheweb and other search engines, just not google. *sigh*
Windows has the Windows Scripting Host installed by default (has since 98)
Umm.. perhaps, but since it's not on any documentation supplied with windows, or any menu/icon/taskbar they're not exactly encouraging you to use it, are they?
your page isn't listed highly in Google because not many people link to it
Hmm.. I'm not complaining I'm not highly listed, I'm complaining I'm not listed at all. For example, if I search for an obscure phrasethat IS on my website, I get sites that link to my site, but not my site itself... at all.. I've tried submitting the site twice in the last 6 months with no luck. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong when I submit the URL or maybe my ISP blocks Google but not other web crawlers? I know it's not a conspiracy, but it feels like it, and I've had other friends complain of the same thing! Oh well, someday I'll work it out..
I'm old enough to remember the early days - my first computer was a 8k PET.. While the technology was primative, computers where sold as creative devices. My PET had a built in interpreter, and it switched on straight to the command prompt. The machine, by its nature, encouraged you to get involved with programming, because it was so simple. Yes, there where word processing packages, games and the like, and you got used to loading and running these, but all the time you knew that the real fun was learning to program. Nowadays, a Windows PC doesn't even come with any kind of programming language (not counting batch files..) and the GUI metaphor discourages automation of tasks (which was the Great Hope that computing promised..) The internet has been converted from a facinating library to some sort of dumb TV plastered with adverts... The increasing and unfettered commercialisation of the internet is gradually making it unusable. I can't even get my site listed on Google, never mind high up the list, because Google's more interested these days in promoting commercial sites. And don't get me started on spammers (unless I've a 2x4 in my hand!)
you can't access hotmail via an email client, so you can't download data to back it up.
Actually, that's not quite true.. Before I moved to Linux exclusively at home I used to use "Incredimail" - a Windows client that allows you to download mail from a free hotmail account. It works quite well, and if I remember correctly it seems to just connect to a pop server with an arcane name, so it might even be possible to jigger any POP3 mail client to work. I also beleive you can get POP3 access to your hotmail if you 'upgrade' to a paid account.
England not become part of the US? I wish it would.. then I'd be able to move to mainland US where they know that a lap dance isn't a finnish folk custom..
BTW what's the point of having a gender associated with a robot? I don't think Robots have need of those characteristics, or sex for that matter. Well, maybe Infrared port sex. Or maybe Seriel port....yeah...
There is more to gender than sex, or sexual function. There are differences between the sexes that are unrelated to sexual function, such as men's tendancy to better spacial perception, or woman's greater tendancy to sociability. What many people of both sexes seem to forget is that 'equality' is not the same as 'equivalence'. It is possible to be different, but neither better nor worse. Getting back to the subject, we already have non-anthropormophic (sp?) robots, they're called computers. The whole point of an 'android' is that, because it emulates the human, it can fit into our world. If I want my robot to drive my car, it has to at least have arms and legs, and be approximately the same size and shape as a human, or it won't fit in the car. If it is much bigger or smaller than a human, it won't get in and out of our doorways, up stairs etc. Following from this, the robots are going to look a little like us, so we may as well make them behave like us, because that puts us at ease. Gender identity is a problem because all the indicating characteristics are on a continuous scale from one extreme to another - and we occupy different points on that scale at different times in our lives. But most people would recognise that there are general stereotypical tendancies that apply to males and females, and that to varying extents each of us conforms to those emotional and intellectual tendancies according to our gender. Of course, there aren't any emotional or intellectial characteristics that I can think of that are exclusively male or female, which is why I have always felt that it's inappropriate to refer to behaviours or interests as being exclusively male or female.
Speaking someone who wrote their first program in BASIC at the tender age of 11 back in 1975 (!) and got his first computer at 16 (an 8K PET - Yes, that 8192 bytes of memory for program and data..) you have to understand that the average digital watch has more computing power than the microcomputers of the era. BASIC was 'tha biznizz' because it stopped you having to write programs by assembling them to machine code using nothing but a book and a pencil and paper. BASIC was an artifact of it's time. Add to that you had to save you programs to tape at 300 characters per second, I'm sure you can appreciate that structured programming was not an issue - it was being able to program at all. The fact that I managed to write interactive games with the minute amount of memory and sloooow processors was a minor miracle in itself. Would I like to go back to those days? No, not at all, modern languages and systems are so much more interesting; but I do sometimes look back in disbelief at how much was acheived with so little and how nowadays languages (with their libraries and object models..) present an almost insurmountable learning curve to all but the most dedicated enthusiastic amateur.
Microsoft BASIC? It was practically everywhere. The version of BASIC on the Commodore PET was licenced from MS IIRC. I had Microsoft BASIC on my Atari 400 (It came on a cartridge as an alternative to Atari Basic). Although I remember reading somewhere that MS bought BASIC from someone else and upgraded it, but I can't find a ref to that at the moment.
Weeel I guess thats one good thing about being a goth... You can get dressed in a disco and not worry about colour match!!
But the thing that I don't understand, is that provided the colour of the lighiting in the room is not too strongly tinted, after a few minutes, all the colours look normal. Even flourescent light, which has a fairly strong green tint. It's because your eyes do an automatic white balance for you. So why is it so important to get exactly the right 'colour temperature' - especially for watching films?
As someone who cycles to work (almost) every day, I'd not be too pleased to find the cycle lanes (such as they are) blocked by yuppies on wheels. To cycle long(ish) distances effectively you need to keep a constant speed - it's bad enough dodging potholes and motorists who think that because you have no engine you can stop instantaneously to avoid them. Having said that, Segways are cool technology, and for those with the brass balls to do so can travel fast enough to cause minimal problems to cyclists, it's just on the rare occasions I've seen them in use here (in the UK) people have been beetling along at snails-pace. It's a shame that they're so expensive. Of course, you could always build your own. That is, until Segway's lawyers get to you and take your house...
The pursuit of knowledge is always, with only a few exceptions, worthwhile. Although I would admit that $700M seems a lot - but looking at it another way, what's that, $3.00 per US citizen? Of course, I am biasses, I live in the UK and get the results for free:o) The research programs that US Universities and NASA has funded (fully or partially) have given spin-off benefits to the whole world, and in many areas put the USA in the lead scientifically and technologically. You should be proud of them, not whine about the cost. Leave that to the politico lusers - there's plenty enough of them.
YOU are just becoming more and more lazy about your personal appearance and respect for your appearance, thus the disparity.
Lazy about my appearance? I think not. I probably spend more time on my appearance than most men, if anything I am villified for caring about my appearence. How you can say that the world is not becoming more superficial I do not know.. twenty years ago to sell records it might have helped loads if you were good looking, but at least on the whole you had to have some talent and musical ability. Now all you need to do is look good and you can be in a boy-band. All the rest can be dealt with in post production. Twenty years ago political parties had clearly defined ethical and political agendas - nowadays (in the west at least) the political parties are virtually indistingishable, they only care about what will get them votes. Getting votes (the superficial) has won over political idealism (the substantial). I could go on, but I guess you won't read it, because you couldn't be bothered to identify yourself before you leapt to conclusions about me...:o)
I thought the point of the artical was not that people are risking our privacy by using it, but that the existance of this service may compromise the status of email as being private. So 'just not using it' won't effect the potential damage done to the status of email, except perhaps in the very unlikely circumstance that no-one uses it.
That meant not only protecting the Earth from extraterrestrial microbes that could cause disease, but also protecting other planets and cosmic objects from organisms native to our world.
Well that's going to put a crimp in my plans for terraforming Mars & Venus.. Anyone want to buy some cheap land??
Slashdot Mirror
Daryl Hannah.
*Drool*
OK They're not philanthropists and no doubt the accountants hold as much sway there as anywhere else, but they do seem to be thinking a bit further ahead than tomorrows bottom line, unlike many other companies I could mention.
Bullshit. It's not like the "commercialisation" is removing literature, research, and raw data from the Internet.
No, it's just burying the content under a pile of adverts, 'portals', keword-spammers and such. The example you give uses a couple of esoteric words, so its not surprising the results are all research. Information on more commonplace subjects is harder (I'll admit, not impossible) to find.
35% of my email is spam, all of which is promoting commercial enterprises.
Web sites get slower and slower as the advertising banners, pop-unders, flash 'pop-overs' and other marketing devices use up more and more bandwidth. I can see that some sites need advertising to run, but does it have to be so intrusive?
Don't blame others because your site isn't interesting enough to go to
If you'd actually bothered to read my post you'd see I'm not 'blaming others' that my site is not 'interesting enough'. I know its of (virtually) no interest to most people. But I just don't understand why it is not listed at all not why its hard to find. I get the odd email from time to time from people who've read stuff there and found it useful, but they've found it through other search engines. I'm not blaming anyone, I just made the comment because it seemed to me that Google had started to become harder and harder to get listed on for non-commercial sites. You have to admit that the link to the page for site submissions is not exactly easy to find, is it?
LOL yes, I suppose.. but a few hints, like there's something to find might be nice :o)
Until the above post I'd never heard of WSH other than a vague impression that there was a scripting thing built into windows (because it's mentioned in the various articles on viruses etc) I'd not read anything that described how to use it, and I've been using windows since Windows 1.x and have an extensive library of computer books and magazines... I guess I must just not have the right book to tell me about WSH.
So I think to say i'm *attacking* WSH is overdoing it a bit.
Well I guess now I know what to search for I can look on Google!
I like Google too.. I'd just be even more pleased if I thought my site was on it somewhere.... Like I said, it's probably something silly that's wrong, but twice now I've read the instructions, submitted the site, and ... nothing. Silly thing is, I'm sure it used to be on there a couple of years ago. Its on alltheweb and other search engines, just not google.
*sigh*
Oh well, someday I'll work it out..
I'm old enough to remember the early days - my first computer was a 8k PET.. While the technology was primative, computers where sold as creative devices. My PET had a built in interpreter, and it switched on straight to the command prompt. The machine, by its nature, encouraged you to get involved with programming, because it was so simple. Yes, there where word processing packages, games and the like, and you got used to loading and running these, but all the time you knew that the real fun was learning to program.
Nowadays, a Windows PC doesn't even come with any kind of programming language (not counting batch files..) and the GUI metaphor discourages automation of tasks (which was the Great Hope that computing promised..)
The internet has been converted from a facinating library to some sort of dumb TV plastered with adverts... The increasing and unfettered commercialisation of the internet is gradually making it unusable. I can't even get my site listed on Google, never mind high up the list, because Google's more interested these days in promoting commercial sites. And don't get me started on spammers (unless I've a 2x4 in my hand!)
England not become part of the US? I wish it would.. then I'd be able to move to mainland US where they know that a lap dance isn't a finnish folk custom..
P.S. Barbie has a seafood fetish? Does Ken know??
You know, I've still got one of those, with the T-shirt (still un-rehydrated!!).
But I spent the 50p coin...
Getting back to the subject, we already have non-anthropormophic (sp?) robots, they're called computers. The whole point of an 'android' is that, because it emulates the human, it can fit into our world. If I want my robot to drive my car, it has to at least have arms and legs, and be approximately the same size and shape as a human, or it won't fit in the car. If it is much bigger or smaller than a human, it won't get in and out of our doorways, up stairs etc. Following from this, the robots are going to look a little like us, so we may as well make them behave like us, because that puts us at ease. Gender identity is a problem because all the indicating characteristics are on a continuous scale from one extreme to another - and we occupy different points on that scale at different times in our lives. But most people would recognise that there are general stereotypical tendancies that apply to males and females, and that to varying extents each of us conforms to those emotional and intellectual tendancies according to our gender. Of course, there aren't any emotional or intellectial characteristics that I can think of that are exclusively male or female, which is why I have always felt that it's inappropriate to refer to behaviours or interests as being exclusively male or female.
The mirror will be handy when some Haxx0r slashdots your MP3 player!!
Speaking someone who wrote their first program in BASIC at the tender age of 11 back in 1975 (!) and got his first computer at 16 (an 8K PET - Yes, that 8192 bytes of memory for program and data..) you have to understand that the average digital watch has more computing power than the microcomputers of the era. BASIC was 'tha biznizz' because it stopped you having to write programs by assembling them to machine code using nothing but a book and a pencil and paper. BASIC was an artifact of it's time. Add to that you had to save you programs to tape at 300 characters per second, I'm sure you can appreciate that structured programming was not an issue - it was being able to program at all.
The fact that I managed to write interactive games with the minute amount of memory and sloooow processors was a minor miracle in itself. Would I like to go back to those days? No, not at all, modern languages and systems are so much more interesting; but I do sometimes look back in disbelief at how much was acheived with so little and how nowadays languages (with their libraries and object models..) present an almost insurmountable learning curve to all but the most dedicated enthusiastic amateur.
Microsoft BASIC? It was practically everywhere. The version of BASIC on the Commodore PET was licenced from MS IIRC. I had Microsoft BASIC on my Atari 400 (It came on a cartridge as an alternative to Atari Basic). Although I remember reading somewhere that MS bought BASIC from someone else and upgraded it, but I can't find a ref to that at the moment.
Actually it was DONKEY.BAS.
Car headlights are deliberately trying to not have an even light distribution - that's what all those pretty patterns in the headlamp cover are for.
Weeel I guess thats one good thing about being a goth... You can get dressed in a disco and not worry about colour match!!
But the thing that I don't understand, is that provided the colour of the lighiting in the room is not too strongly tinted, after a few minutes, all the colours look normal. Even flourescent light, which has a fairly strong green tint. It's because your eyes do an automatic white balance for you. So why is it so important to get exactly the right 'colour temperature' - especially for watching films?
As someone who cycles to work (almost) every day, I'd not be too pleased to find the cycle lanes (such as they are) blocked by yuppies on wheels. To cycle long(ish) distances effectively you need to keep a constant speed - it's bad enough dodging potholes and motorists who think that because you have no engine you can stop instantaneously to avoid them.
Having said that, Segways are cool technology, and for those with the brass balls to do so can travel fast enough to cause minimal problems to cyclists, it's just on the rare occasions I've seen them in use here (in the UK) people have been beetling along at snails-pace. It's a shame that they're so expensive. Of course, you could always build your own. That is, until Segway's lawyers get to you and take your house...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans eating hot grits in Soviet Russia...
The pursuit of knowledge is always, with only a few exceptions, worthwhile. Although I would admit that $700M seems a lot - but looking at it another way, what's that, $3.00 per US citizen? Of course, I am biasses, I live in the UK and get the results for free :o)
The research programs that US Universities and NASA has funded (fully or partially) have given spin-off benefits to the whole world, and in many areas put the USA in the lead scientifically and technologically. You should be proud of them, not whine about the cost. Leave that to the politico lusers - there's plenty enough of them.
How you can say that the world is not becoming more superficial I do not know.. twenty years ago to sell records it might have helped loads if you were good looking, but at least on the whole you had to have some talent and musical ability. Now all you need to do is look good and you can be in a boy-band. All the rest can be dealt with in post production. Twenty years ago political parties had clearly defined ethical and political agendas - nowadays (in the west at least) the political parties are virtually indistingishable, they only care about what will get them votes. Getting votes (the superficial) has won over political idealism (the substantial). I could go on, but I guess you won't read it, because you couldn't be bothered to identify yourself before you leapt to conclusions about me...
I thought the point of the artical was not that people are risking our privacy by using it, but that the existance of this service may compromise the status of email as being private. So 'just not using it' won't effect the potential damage done to the status of email, except perhaps in the very unlikely circumstance that no-one uses it.
What, like was it worth $700 to buy a PC *now* compared to $500 in 12 months time when it would be cheaper and more highly specified?
<OLDFART>Thought you kids where the 'now' generation..</OLDFART>