I thought the type ahead find feature only worked on links. That's all it ever goes to for me. I was under the impression that we were talking about highlighting regular words. Is there a way to change the behavior?
If you look at the top 50, you get these percentages:
20% FreeBSD 26% Windows (NT and 2000) 30% Linux 22% Solaris
2% HP-UX
This is fairly close to the overall distribution of servers. It usually works out to about the same numbers. Currently, Apache is at 63 percent and IIS is at 26%. Which would be about right if all of the Windows boxes are running IIS and most of the unix variants are running Apache.
So the news appears to be that the top 50 most reliable providers are, generally speaking, reflective of the whole of all providers. Which means that it isn't just the server os that makes a hosting company reliable, it's the hardware and the techs. There's no magic bullet for uptime. You can't categorically say that one os is the absolute best. You have to include the technical skills of the admins in the equation.[1]
[1] You *might* be able to state that free/open source software is more easily secured, but I suspect that the admins running those 25 bsd/linux sites would tell you that their skills made a difference in their uptime.
Realone is a lot better than the previous version of RealPlayer. RealPlayer made it incredibly difficult to stop it from loading on boot. When you went into preferences to turn it off, you got a message that sounded like turning off the startcenter would make your computer stop working correctly. The start center was also responsible for random crashes.
We went through a period at work where the soultion to every crash was to remove the start center.
But as I said, Real One is a lot better. Now the only problem is that they really push you to the non-free version on their website.
Well, as far as web browsing goes, too many sites on our campus require IE, so we can't go to Mozilla until HR writes for both browsers.
I can't recommend mozilla for e-mail until the following features are implemented:
1) Automatic attachment download to a specified directory, just like Eudora. This is a very handy feature and one our users are used to.
2) Spell check as you go instead of spell check only on send. Little red squiggles under misspelled words has become the standard for any text creation software.
3) Delete from server after X number of days for both pop and imap.
I use thunderbird at home and Eudora at work since I have to support it.
Our campus is moving right into MS's back pocket, so we'll all be switching to Outlook pretty soon I'll bet. Sigh.
Well, I started with a C-64. That's right children, 64k. Then I thought I was doing good with a 512 meg video card. And wow, my p-75 with 4 whole megs of video memory (more than my first real pc) really smoked them. I wait so long between computer updates that my next computer generally has as much or more video ram than my previous one had ram. Right now I'm on an Athlon 1800+ with 512 megs of ram and a 32 meg video card. In a year or two 512 on video card will probably pretty middle of the road. 256 isn't that uncommon now, although the last time I checked, the mid ranges were more around 128.
Did Microsoft offer them to you or did your school take a portion of your computing fee and use it to sign a contract with Microsoft to provide the software to students for a nominal fee ($5). Our school did the latter. So students here did end up paying for the contract, they just never knew they were paying.
Ok, now imagine that instead of the Arctic Circle, we're designing coats for the catwalks of Paris. You have designed the most wonderful coat ever produced. The lines, the fabric, such daring design has not graced the catwalks! While on a tour of your design house, I spy a door that has been left ajar. Carefully peeking through the crack, I see you wonderful coat. I quick run back to my studio where I produce my own version of the coat and get all the supermodels of Europe to parade around wearing it. Did I steal your idea?
It isn't as cut and dried as you think. Basically people seem to be attempting to justify behavior they know deep down is wrong by saying it isn't really stealing.
Yeah, but you missed the number 1 definition and didn't follow the reference. And the first definition is almost always the most common meaning of the word:
theft- The act or an instance of stealing; larceny
So what does it mean to steal? steal - To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
It assumes physical property, but later on, idiomatically it uses the theft of an idea. So it isn't as cut and dried as you might think:
steal - To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage and without consent by the originator.
Ah, but you wouldn't write "We are going to discuss Canada laws" you'd write "We are going to discuss Canadian laws". You'd append the -ian suffix to the adjective. Consider these two sentences:
1) We are going to discuss Canada policies. 2) We are going to discuss Canadian policy.
The first would mean that we are going to discuss our policy about or towards Canada(maybe we want to punish them for letting people smoke pot or something). The second means we are going to discuss the policies promulgated by and within Canada (maybe we want to discuss ways they've implemented their foreign policy). Two different meanings, two different forms of the word to denote those two meanings. It is more precise and eliminates ambiguity and vagueness.
It depends on where the river is. If it is land set aside for public camping, then as a member of the public I can drink from it. Just like I'm not trespassing when I hike on public land. If it is private land, then I am trespassing and if I divert the water for my own use, I certainly am stealing it from people down stream. The water rights wars of the US west make for interesting reading.
As far as theft only applying to tangible items, the word theft and steal have always applied to more than mere tangible goods. Surely you've heard of identity theft. If I use your id number, you are still you, right? If I steal your name and reputation, wouldn't you be upset? If I represented myself as WNight and said and did a bunch of things on/. that made you lose karma, wouldn't that be theft? You would still be you; you wouldn't have undergone some Kafka-eque metamorphosis and become something else. And if your karma went down, you wouldn't have lost anything tangible. But I bet you'd call it theft.
I can steal ideas too. Here's a hypothetical for you(set up in a specific way so that I can get your idea without breaking any laws): You are in a public park. You realize how to write the perfect operating system, an ingenous method that could use any language and be implemented in many different non-trivial algorithms. You quickly write your idea down on a notebook. Then you get up to go to the bathroom and leave your notebook on the park bench. While you hit the head, I sit down, see an unattended notebook and read it. I understand your revelation, assuming the notebook to be abandoned, I run out and patent the idea and make a proprietary operating system out of it. I become the world's first trillionaire and hire Bill Gates to muck out my stables.;) Surely you would accuse me of theft. But I didn't take anything tangible, did I?
Here's a good test. Think about telling your Grandmother that you took something that didn't belong to you and that you had no right to take. Would you like to admit to your Grandmother that you did something like that?;)
I forgot to point out that it should be written USian, using the -ian suffix to denote the adjectival form. USA or US would be the noun form. For example: USian policies towards drug laws are stricter than Canadian. The US has sent an ambassador to Canada to discuss the differences.
Oddly enough, many people using the Internet take a lax, shall we say, approach to grammar and spelling.;)
It's a way of distinguishing between American, encompassing all of the countries that make up the Americas and the United States. If you say America suffered an Earthquake, which America do you mean? North or South? It's a level of precision that's growing, mainly because other countries on the American continents don't want to be lumped in with the US.
I can still say anything I want. I can say slashdot sucks on my blog. All I have to do is give the slashdot editors a chance to put up a message on my blog that says "no we don't". I can still say anything I want. And since linking to a response is acceptable, I could even tell them, "Fine, I'll put a link up to your response."
If you look at some of the web pages that make fun of a corporation and got in trouble, they put up the response and then make fun of it, so not much will actually change.
If anything, this might make free speech *more* available, since anyone who says "wal-mart sucks" has a non-onerous way of placating wal-mart without having to take down the text that offended wal-mart.
Recently, we saw Penny-Arcade forced to take down a Strawberry Shortcake parody. What if instead, all they had to do was put American Greetings' response to the parody. And then since they've complied with the law, they wouldn't have had to take the strip down. And what if they could use that compliance as an additional defense?
Jesus christ, where to even start with this one... What the hell does the govt need Dreamweaver for? Does the word "accessiblity" mean anything to you? Code the f'ing website in some basic HTML and be done with it.
I really don't understand that attitude. Dreamweaver gives you the ability to check your code for browser compliance, various html specs, and even section 508 government accessibility standards. You can write decent html if you want or just use it like a word processor and then check compliance with just about any standard you want.
Did you even bother to read the Slashdot summary on this one, or just start replying to random posts?
Not at random, no. I'm responding to the post that suggested there were functional equivalents in linux to most windows programs. There aren't.
What mainstream category of software doesn't have an OpenSource counterpart.
A counterpart with the same feature set or even close to it?
Dreamweaver Photoshop Pagemaker Publisher
The GIMP doesn't have the pantone tools and other features that make Photoshop a must in the image area. Quanta and Bluefish can't begin to touch Dreamweaver. Latex? Great, but not as easy as Pagemaker or Publisher (I think that's the right equivalent)
However, when you use Hotmail, you're one of *tens of millions* of people around the world who use it. The amount of money generated by selling demographics, advertising, and "partner services" through Hotmail is staggering.
Heh. So the way to mess with Microsoft would be to programatically create tens of thousands of hotmail accounts, all with bizarre demographics (Why yes, I am a 95 year old Female fortran programmer into Quake and Holly Hobby quilts making over 250k a year), then sign the accounts up for all sorts of junk mail, and every so often send messages between them to keep the accounts active. They take up MS's resources, but provide only junk to the demographics people.
I know I lied when I set up my hotmail account and I only use it for websites that need a valid e-mail address to register, like the NY Times.
I still can't believe some people take this site seriously.
Exactly. Don't come to/. looking for intelligent commentary (current post excepted of course;) ), grammar, or good advice. Use it simply as a news aggregator and read the stories they link to. Usually the next day as a result of the/. affect.
To be fair, I didn't say that free-market == aint-union, I said that people who are libertarian/free marketers *tend* to be anti-union. Traditionally, Republicans have tended towards hands off towards business (free marketers) and anti-union positions. For example, Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers for going on strike.
In turn, the stores will charge you more money for those goods. Thus, you'll pay.
But the money I pay goes to make up for the increase cost to the drivers and the store. It doesn't go to maintain the roads. Only the tax paid by the drivers does that. If I were to be taxed, they may have money to create new road services, not just maintain existing services.
Is it just my percention of IT people being anti union or is it me?
There is a perception that many on/. tend towards libertarian views and completely free market. It isn't hard to see why there is that perception after reading through the tax article earlier today. People who tend to be libertarian/free-market also tend to be anti-union. There are all sorts of exceptions of course, but the tendancy is there.
It seems like this is another example of two trends in taxation theory.
The first is an increasing reliance on sin taxes. The more you drive/smoke/drink the more you pay in fees/taxes.
The second is more subtle. In something like Federal Income Tax, everyone contributes money and that money is used to fund government programs. Now you may not like the NEA, you may never read a book or see a play, but your money goes to support the National Endowment for the Arts. You may be morally/theologically opposed to military build up, but your money is still used for the School of the Americas and nuclear weapons. The theory is that everyone contributes and everyone benefits. Goes right back to the Pilgrims who worked together to survive.
But if this tax is thought of as a road use tax, then it is an example of an increase in specific user fees/taxes. If I don't drive, then I don't pay this tax. And yet, the semis that deliver my food to the grocery store, the ambulance, firetruck, taxi, etc., all use those roads. In other words, I partake of services that rely on the roads, but I don't contribute to the road maintenance as much as I probably should.
The article waffles back and forth. Sometimes it refers to this as a road use tax (essentially money paid solely by those people who directly use the service) and other times it refers to it as an alternative to the gasoline tax, a tax that is both a use tax and a sin tax.
Under a pay per use taxation system, it is possible to game the system. I can buy 100 gallons of gas and just have a heck of a fire, but pay no tax. Nevermind the toxic fumes.
It seems that by moving to a more pay per use method of taxation, that we fail to pick up on indirect use, unforeseen consequences. Here's another example. A portion of my taxes go to the National Park System. I want this to continue, even though I don't actively use the parks. I want them to remain open and available. So I get a benefit, the park system, by paying less than the people who visit the parks. Sure, they pay a little more when they visit, but it would be more fair to balance things better. They pay a little less for visitor fees, I pay a little more in taxes.
Re:claimed "iPod killer" features, no proof
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How about MyFi as a killer feature? Broadcast your music to an available fm station. No more car radio adapters. Easily share your mixes with your friends. Sit in class and have a few friends listening on the same station that you're broadcasting on.
As far as the other features go, all the reviewer's experiments showed was that the hisi has problems when not used properly. The random noise test was a joke and they said that they purposely used a bad version of the rap song as a test of how well hisi did with poor version of the song.
Radio: Why would anyone want to pay a buck a piece for a song when the radio broadcasts them for free?
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I thought the type ahead find feature only worked on links. That's all it ever goes to for me. I was under the impression that we were talking about highlighting regular words. Is there a way to change the behavior?
Probably should be single quotes though in mysql: set votes='0'
If you look at the top 50, you get these percentages:
20% FreeBSD
26% Windows (NT and 2000)
30% Linux
22% Solaris
2% HP-UX
This is fairly close to the overall distribution of servers. It usually works out to about the same numbers. Currently, Apache is at 63 percent and IIS is at 26%. Which would be about right if all of the Windows boxes are running IIS and most of the unix variants are running Apache.
So the news appears to be that the top 50 most reliable providers are, generally speaking, reflective of the whole of all providers. Which means that it isn't just the server os that makes a hosting company reliable, it's the hardware and the techs. There's no magic bullet for uptime. You can't categorically say that one os is the absolute best. You have to include the technical skills of the admins in the equation.[1]
[1] You *might* be able to state that free/open source software is more easily secured, but I suspect that the admins running those 25 bsd/linux sites would tell you that their skills made a difference in their uptime.
Realone is a lot better than the previous version of RealPlayer. RealPlayer made it incredibly difficult to stop it from loading on boot. When you went into preferences to turn it off, you got a message that sounded like turning off the startcenter would make your computer stop working correctly. The start center was also responsible for random crashes.
We went through a period at work where the soultion to every crash was to remove the start center.
But as I said, Real One is a lot better. Now the only problem is that they really push you to the non-free version on their website.
Well, as far as web browsing goes, too many sites on our campus require IE, so we can't go to Mozilla until HR writes for both browsers.
I can't recommend mozilla for e-mail until the following features are implemented:
1) Automatic attachment download to a specified directory, just like Eudora. This is a very handy feature and one our users are used to.
2) Spell check as you go instead of spell check only on send. Little red squiggles under misspelled words has become the standard for any text creation software.
3) Delete from server after X number of days for both pop and imap.
I use thunderbird at home and Eudora at work since I have to support it.
Our campus is moving right into MS's back pocket, so we'll all be switching to Outlook pretty soon I'll bet. Sigh.
Well, I started with a C-64. That's right children, 64k. Then I thought I was doing good with a 512 meg video card. And wow, my p-75 with 4 whole megs of video memory (more than my first real pc) really smoked them. I wait so long between computer updates that my next computer generally has as much or more video ram than my previous one had ram. Right now I'm on an Athlon 1800+ with 512 megs of ram and a 32 meg video card. In a year or two 512 on video card will probably pretty middle of the road. 256 isn't that uncommon now, although the last time I checked, the mid ranges were more around 128.
Did Microsoft offer them to you or did your school take a portion of your computing fee and use it to sign a contract with Microsoft to provide the software to students for a nominal fee ($5). Our school did the latter. So students here did end up paying for the contract, they just never knew they were paying.
Ok, now imagine that instead of the Arctic Circle, we're designing coats for the catwalks of Paris. You have designed the most wonderful coat ever produced. The lines, the fabric, such daring design has not graced the catwalks! While on a tour of your design house, I spy a door that has been left ajar. Carefully peeking through the crack, I see you wonderful coat. I quick run back to my studio where I produce my own version of the coat and get all the supermodels of Europe to parade around wearing it. Did I steal your idea?
It isn't as cut and dried as you think. Basically people seem to be attempting to justify behavior they know deep down is wrong by saying it isn't really stealing.
Yeah, but you missed the number 1 definition and didn't follow the reference. And the first definition is almost always the most common meaning of the word:
theft- The act or an instance of stealing; larceny
So what does it mean to steal?
steal - To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
It assumes physical property, but later on, idiomatically it uses the theft of an idea. So it isn't as cut and dried as you might think:
steal - To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage and without consent by the originator.
Ah, but you wouldn't write "We are going to discuss Canada laws" you'd write "We are going to discuss Canadian laws". You'd append the -ian suffix to the adjective. Consider these two sentences:
1) We are going to discuss Canada policies.
2) We are going to discuss Canadian policy.
The first would mean that we are going to discuss our policy about or towards Canada(maybe we want to punish them for letting people smoke pot or something). The second means we are going to discuss the policies promulgated by and within Canada (maybe we want to discuss ways they've implemented their foreign policy). Two different meanings, two different forms of the word to denote those two meanings. It is more precise and eliminates ambiguity and vagueness.
It depends on where the river is. If it is land set aside for public camping, then as a member of the public I can drink from it. Just like I'm not trespassing when I hike on public land. If it is private land, then I am trespassing and if I divert the water for my own use, I certainly am stealing it from people down stream. The water rights wars of the US west make for interesting reading.
/. that made you lose karma, wouldn't that be theft? You would still be you; you wouldn't have undergone some Kafka-eque metamorphosis and become something else. And if your karma went down, you wouldn't have lost anything tangible. But I bet you'd call it theft.
;) Surely you would accuse me of theft. But I didn't take anything tangible, did I?
;)
As far as theft only applying to tangible items, the word theft and steal have always applied to more than mere tangible goods. Surely you've heard of identity theft. If I use your id number, you are still you, right? If I steal your name and reputation, wouldn't you be upset? If I represented myself as WNight and said and did a bunch of things on
I can steal ideas too. Here's a hypothetical for you(set up in a specific way so that I can get your idea without breaking any laws): You are in a public park. You realize how to write the perfect operating system, an ingenous method that could use any language and be implemented in many different non-trivial algorithms. You quickly write your idea down on a notebook. Then you get up to go to the bathroom and leave your notebook on the park bench. While you hit the head, I sit down, see an unattended notebook and read it. I understand your revelation, assuming the notebook to be abandoned, I run out and patent the idea and make a proprietary operating system out of it. I become the world's first trillionaire and hire Bill Gates to muck out my stables.
Here's a good test. Think about telling your Grandmother that you took something that didn't belong to you and that you had no right to take. Would you like to admit to your Grandmother that you did something like that?
I forgot to point out that it should be written USian, using the -ian suffix to denote the adjectival form. USA or US would be the noun form. For example: USian policies towards drug laws are stricter than Canadian. The US has sent an ambassador to Canada to discuss the differences.
;)
Oddly enough, many people using the Internet take a lax, shall we say, approach to grammar and spelling.
Taking something that doesn't belong to you or that you have no right to take is theft. Don't kid yourself.
It's a way of distinguishing between American, encompassing all of the countries that make up the Americas and the United States. If you say America suffered an Earthquake, which America do you mean? North or South? It's a level of precision that's growing, mainly because other countries on the American continents don't want to be lumped in with the US.
I can still say anything I want. I can say slashdot sucks on my blog. All I have to do is give the slashdot editors a chance to put up a message on my blog that says "no we don't". I can still say anything I want. And since linking to a response is acceptable, I could even tell them, "Fine, I'll put a link up to your response."
If you look at some of the web pages that make fun of a corporation and got in trouble, they put up the response and then make fun of it, so not much will actually change.
If anything, this might make free speech *more* available, since anyone who says "wal-mart sucks" has a non-onerous way of placating wal-mart without having to take down the text that offended wal-mart.
Recently, we saw Penny-Arcade forced to take down a Strawberry Shortcake parody. What if instead, all they had to do was put American Greetings' response to the parody. And then since they've complied with the law, they wouldn't have had to take the strip down. And what if they could use that compliance as an additional defense?
Jesus christ, where to even start with this one... What the hell does the govt need Dreamweaver for? Does the word "accessiblity" mean anything to you? Code the f'ing website in some basic HTML and be done with it.
I really don't understand that attitude. Dreamweaver gives you the ability to check your code for browser compliance, various html specs, and even section 508 government accessibility standards. You can write decent html if you want or just use it like a word processor and then check compliance with just about any standard you want.
Did you even bother to read the Slashdot summary on this one, or just start replying to random posts?
Not at random, no. I'm responding to the post that suggested there were functional equivalents in linux to most windows programs. There aren't.
What mainstream category of software doesn't have an OpenSource counterpart.
A counterpart with the same feature set or even close to it?
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Pagemaker
Publisher
The GIMP doesn't have the pantone tools and other features that make Photoshop a must in the image area. Quanta and Bluefish can't begin to touch Dreamweaver. Latex? Great, but not as easy as Pagemaker or Publisher (I think that's the right equivalent)
However, when you use Hotmail, you're one of *tens of millions* of people around the world who use it. The amount of money generated by selling demographics, advertising, and "partner services" through Hotmail is staggering.
Heh. So the way to mess with Microsoft would be to programatically create tens of thousands of hotmail accounts, all with bizarre demographics (Why yes, I am a 95 year old Female fortran programmer into Quake and Holly Hobby quilts making over 250k a year), then sign the accounts up for all sorts of junk mail, and every so often send messages between them to keep the accounts active. They take up MS's resources, but provide only junk to the demographics people.
I know I lied when I set up my hotmail account and I only use it for websites that need a valid e-mail address to register, like the NY Times.
I still can't believe some people take this site seriously.
/. looking for intelligent commentary (current post excepted of course ;) ), grammar, or good advice. Use it simply as a news aggregator and read the stories they link to. Usually the next day as a result of the /. affect.
Exactly. Don't come to
To be fair, I didn't say that free-market == aint-union, I said that people who are libertarian/free marketers *tend* to be anti-union. Traditionally, Republicans have tended towards hands off towards business (free marketers) and anti-union positions. For example, Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers for going on strike.
In turn, the stores will charge you more money for those goods. Thus, you'll pay.
But the money I pay goes to make up for the increase cost to the drivers and the store. It doesn't go to maintain the roads. Only the tax paid by the drivers does that. If I were to be taxed, they may have money to create new road services, not just maintain existing services.
Is it just my percention of IT people being anti union or is it me?
/. tend towards libertarian views and completely free market. It isn't hard to see why there is that perception after reading through the tax article earlier today. People who tend to be libertarian/free-market also tend to be anti-union. There are all sorts of exceptions of course, but the tendancy is there.
There is a perception that many on
So who says that salaried/exempt people can't unionize? Seriously, is it a law or something?
It seems like this is another example of two trends in taxation theory.
The first is an increasing reliance on sin taxes. The more you drive/smoke/drink the more you pay in fees/taxes.
The second is more subtle. In something like Federal Income Tax, everyone contributes money and that money is used to fund government programs. Now you may not like the NEA, you may never read a book or see a play, but your money goes to support the National Endowment for the Arts. You may be morally/theologically opposed to military build up, but your money is still used for the School of the Americas and nuclear weapons. The theory is that everyone contributes and everyone benefits. Goes right back to the Pilgrims who worked together to survive.
But if this tax is thought of as a road use tax, then it is an example of an increase in specific user fees/taxes. If I don't drive, then I don't pay this tax. And yet, the semis that deliver my food to the grocery store, the ambulance, firetruck, taxi, etc., all use those roads. In other words, I partake of services that rely on the roads, but I don't contribute to the road maintenance as much as I probably should.
The article waffles back and forth. Sometimes it refers to this as a road use tax (essentially money paid solely by those people who directly use the service) and other times it refers to it as an alternative to the gasoline tax, a tax that is both a use tax and a sin tax.
Under a pay per use taxation system, it is possible to game the system. I can buy 100 gallons of gas and just have a heck of a fire, but pay no tax. Nevermind the toxic fumes.
It seems that by moving to a more pay per use method of taxation, that we fail to pick up on indirect use, unforeseen consequences. Here's another example. A portion of my taxes go to the National Park System. I want this to continue, even though I don't actively use the parks. I want them to remain open and available. So I get a benefit, the park system, by paying less than the people who visit the parks. Sure, they pay a little more when they visit, but it would be more fair to balance things better. They pay a little less for visitor fees, I pay a little more in taxes.
How about MyFi as a killer feature? Broadcast your music to an available fm station. No more car radio adapters. Easily share your mixes with your friends. Sit in class and have a few friends listening on the same station that you're broadcasting on.
As far as the other features go, all the reviewer's experiments showed was that the hisi has problems when not used properly. The random noise test was a joke and they said that they purposely used a bad version of the rap song as a test of how well hisi did with poor version of the song.
Radio: Why would anyone want to pay a buck a piece for a song when the radio broadcasts them for free?