Are you saying that as of firefox 3.5 it is now possible (which it wasn't in 3.0) to easily and completely disable the awesome bar? If so then (a) please tell me how to do it
If it's not the matching/searching/etc. that you object to, but rather just the multi-line display, then you need to edit userChrome.css and add something like the following: /* Set the location bar to show only URLs, on one line */ .autocomplete-richlistitem spacer,.autocomplete-richlistitemlabel{display:none} .ac-title description{font-size:11px!important} .autocomplete-richlistitem{border:none!important} .ac-title{margin:-4px 4px 0px 0px!important;display:none} .ac-url{margin:-19px 0px 0px 20px!important} .ac-url description{color:MenuText!important} .ac-url description[selected="true"]{color:White!important}
Maybe I'm missing something in the "options" dialog, but I can't find anything that controls the look of the URL/location/awesome/whatever bar.
OK, so you say I need to make some changes in "about:config". Not exactly easy, seeing as how not every configuration item exists by default, and the available help information is poor (to say the least).
Once I work through all that, it turns out there isn't actually any way to disable the two-line display (which shows page titles along with URLS) without doing some hacking in userChrome.css. So, basically, there is no easy way to get Firefox 3.0 or higher to display the location bar in a way that is the same as Firefox 2.0.
Channels should provide their programming guide. Each channel should, somewhere, have that information in a standard format.
In the US, they generally do, now that digital TV is the standard.
The big problem is that the box basically needs two tuners if you want to update guide data while watching a channel, since it has to "tune" to the other channels (however briefly) to get the latest data.
I haven't read the article, but if the summary correctly reflects the situation, the traffic lights are all working - they're just working independently, so rather than being in sync so the main flow of traffic never has to stop (or stops less) they're all just doing their own thing.
I haven't read the article, either, but I suppose I could print it out and read it while waiting in the traffic.
The commute here is bad normally, but yesterday was living hell. I watched lights change green for just long enough to let less than four cars in the line of twenty make it through. I watched several lights completely skip cycles in one direction (since they do that at certain times when there is little to no traffic coming from that way) while lines of cars waited.
No. If Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same WSUS ID but gets on fine you'll never know about machine A.
Although you are correct about the SUSClientID being in the registry (as I hinted before), the behavior you state generally will not happen with identical SUSClientIDs.
What will happen is that Machine A will fail to patch in some way, then Machine B will succeed, then Machine A will keep trying and reporting, so you generally won't know what happened to Machine B, which won't report again until about 22 hours later (the default contact time for WSUS, but you can control this with GPO).
Besides, isn't doing good things so that you can get reelected SUPPOSED to be the way things should work?
No, the way things are supposed to work is that politicians should do the right thing, regardless of whether it helps them get re-elected.
As soon as they head down the slippery slope of not doing the right thing because "if I don't get elected, I won't be able to help people any more", it's all over. Once a politician believes that their being in office is the most important thing, then by definition what's important to the people that elected them becomes secondary.
You need to trust that doing the right thing will get you re-elected, and if not, then the people have spoken and don't want what you are trying to do.
your in car GPS is using the unscrambled height measurements so that you can know your true position? You did know that consumer GPS doesn't have the real height in it, right? it uses an altimiter to guess at your height.
Altitude is always an "estimate", as it is based on the mean sea level reference, but if you have at least 4 satellites as reference, this value is as accurately calculated as it can be.
Identical machine SIDs and WSUS identifiers (stored in the registry) don't stop the updates from being applied...they just cause the WSUS reports to show only the details for the last cloned machine that connected.
I get lots of support requests for PCs. None for Macs. There are several Macs in the family, usually with the less-computer-literate folks, and I never get calls from them.
I suspect you've hit the nail on the head.
If you don't care to stretch yourself much and just want a machine that does e-mail and web browsing, pretty much anything will do. If you want a bit more, then the built-in apps for the Mac will cover you better than 3rd-party software for Windows.
But, if you really want to stretch and need to do something different, chances are you can't do it at all in within the limitations of the Mac (no worries about how to make 3 monitors work, for example), but you might have a problem doing it on Windows, so you'd ask for help.
He said "in 20 years" and then made the mistake of thinking that is 2020 when he meant 2030.
No, I didn't make that mistake.
I assumed that we can't possibly need 128-bit addressing until 20 years from now (about 2030), and so we don't really even need to start thinking about coding for it (or seeing hardware that thinks about accomodating it) until about 10 years from now.
In these architectures, the large number of address bits were used to provide an address space that spanned both memory and disks and was used to provide processor-level protection for objects stored there. Using large address spaces to ensure hardware protection of system objects is a good start on a highly secure OS and is probably where this is going.
But, even 64 bits is enough for that for a long time.
Since you can address over 17 billion terabytes with 64 bits, that means that even with a doubling of storage density every year (which is much faster than things are really happening), that means we have over 20 years before arrays of a couple thousand disks would start to reach the limit.
By then, there will be 128-bit CPUs. So, unless Windows 8 is targeted for 2020, it really doesn't need any 128-bit features.
how much time did you put in to buy the individual parts and assemble them?
Less than two hours, although it did take 3 days for the hardware to show up at my door.
When you know what you want, NewEgg is very fast to navigate...in particular, I just put my entire standard Core i5 wish list into my basket and click "Next" a few times.
After that, putting together well-made components into a "no-tools-required" case isn't even close to the thought required to make a meal from scratch.
what is your hourly pay rate?
I don't get paid for watching football, but that would be cool, wouldn't it? If you can't put together a computer while complaining that the ref is blind, turn in your Slashdot card.
All this, however, doesn't change the fact that your argument is either a red herring or a straw man, but I'm not sure which. If I didn't specifically want a Core i5 machine, I could have ordered up a $700 Core 2 Quad from Dell in the time it takes to read a couple of Slashdot posts.
Last time I checked, when you do a comparison down to a component level of a Mac versus a Dell with equivalent specs, you have to go quite high up in Dell's range before you even find the same CPUs available as an option, never mind standard.
Boy, the Apple fanboys are out astroturfing today.
A Mac Mini starts with a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB hard drive for $599.
Dell has not one, but three machines that beat that spec and the price:
In addition, you can really beat the spec with two quad-core machines for less than $530.
Sure, Dell has a few models with hardware that is less than that of the Mac Mini, but it's not like they are that much cheaper, or that the better models are hidden.
Even the maligned Mac Mini is a pretty good machine for MOST sub $700 machine buyers.
Ridiculous. For less than $800, I just built a Core i5 machine with 4GB of RAM, 1.2TB of hard disk, and a Radeon HD4850 video card (which can drive 2 monitors).
With some cost cutting (less RAM, fewer hard drives, cheaper video card), I could add a bluetooth dongle and match the Mac Mini on all regards...except nothing I could do would make the Core i5 as crappy as the processor in the Mac Mini.
The only thing the Mac Mini has going for it is the form factor, but if that small size isn't important, it's worth less than nothing, since the easy upgrades on even a mini-tower case are a huge advantage.
As has been pointed out (over and over), Mac pricing is quite competitive when you compare (ahem) apples to apples.
This is only somewhat true, since you have huge swaths of product that isn't available from Apple.
In particular, to get a decent, expandable desktop Mac, you need to pay literally a $1000 price premium over a functionally equivalent product. This is because they chose to base their system on a dual-socket Nehalem architecture, instead of offering a single-socket system. But, if you don't need the second processor, you still have to pay the $730 extra for a processor that can be used in a dual-socket system, and about $200 more for the dual-socket motherboard itself, and $20-40/GB more for RAM.
So, technically, the Mac Pro is a much more expandable system, but with a Core i7 or Core i5 processor at 3GHz, you really don't need more than one socket for 99.9% of applications, and all the other options (24GB+ RAM, lots of PCIe slots, etc.) are available on all the single-socket motherboards. Unfortunately, with Apple, your only choice is to either buy a Mac Mini or iMac (with years-old technology inside and no way to expand or upgrade) or buy a MacBook of some sort. If you want a desktop computer, any laptop is a poor economic choice, as you are paying for a box with no upgrade potential, plus a screen, keyboard, and pointing device that you probably will end up not using.
Do you want to *support* four customers who have each put a million dollars in your pocket, or do you want to support four million people who have each put a dollar in your pocket?
This is not an issue for Apple, as Macs don't require any support...or so their ads claim.
This brings to mind the thought of just letting somebody else decide: pick nothing but Hugo winners:
The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K LeGuin)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov)
The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)
Startide Rising (David Brin)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Not a complete list, of course, but you can't really go wrong with any of them.
Step one: google for overclocking forums, visit them, and see what all the super nerds are using for mainboards. Choose popular mainboard that you can afford, then choose the fastest CPU you can afford for that architecture.
Absolutely correct. I also search the game/DVD copying forums to pick out the best optical drive.
I don't really care about copying that much, but the drives they like the best seem to be able to read everything without any issues, and do so at the highest possible speed. You also learn that the most expensive drive is rarely the best...there are a lot of $30 DVD writers that are close to the best you can buy.
It's getting harder and harder to buy parts and build your own for cheaper than you can get a pre-assembled box. These days, the only reason to build your own is if you want to pick and choose every component for quality, in which case cost is not your primary driver. If you're going for cheap, something pre-assembled from Dell or a similar company is usually cheaper, especially if you consider the value of your time. Even if you value your time at $0/hr, you can still often get a pre-built from Dell cheaper than a comparable build-your-own system.
It's absolutely true that if you want the $200 "Black Friday special", then you can't beat a pre-built system. Or, if you hit Dell when what you want is on sale, you get a great deal. But, if you want more than the default RAM/hard disk/processor/etc. at "regular" prices, parts are the only way to go.
For example, when not on sale, a Dell Core i7 system that defaults to 3GB of RAM will cost you $150 extra to upgrade to 6GB, when you could just buy the 6GB outright for $110. Hard drives are the same...jumping from 640GB to 1000GB adds $100, even though a 1000GB hard drive is only around $100 new.
Yes, it's even more dangerous than using a cell phone because you have to take both hands off the wheel.
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Just so you know, this is illegal in Kansas, as of July 1st. They will be issuing warnings for a year, and then start ticketing.
My prediction is that there will be 1 ticket for this issued for every 1000 speeding tickets issued because of radar (or other devices that require no real work on the part of the police).
Seriously, I've seen many cops completely ignore drivers pulling incredibly stupid moves in order to pull someone over doing 5mph over the limit, and all simply because with the radar the cop doesn't need to put himself on the line to testify. Any "reckless driving" sort of ticket requires the cop to really explain why it was unsafe, and even then it will likely be reduced to something a lot less serious when it is contested.
And, in the case of this law, the cop would have to be driving along with the offender for at least a half-mile while they were blocking someone. Then, when it goes to court, the driver will say something like "I was going to pass, but slowed down because I was afraid the cop was going to ticket me for speeding".
You mean trademarks like Gmail(tm) and the Google(tm) logo? Which are almost certainly being distributed as part of those apps?
And, so what?
If I sell or give you a genuine boxed copy of Microsoft Windows(tm), what law am I breaking? And, if I choose to advertise the fact that I am selling that same product and want to use the trademarked name in my advertisement, Microsoft has no grounds to stop me. They can force me to specifically state that the name is trademarked by them, but that's all.
Trademark exists not to protect businesses, but to protect consumers. That way, you know that if it says "Microsoft" or "Sony" or "Intel", or uses similar packaging, you won't be getting a product from some other company (like "Sorny"). And, this is the crux of why trademark has to be defended or else it is lost.
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Are you saying that as of firefox 3.5 it is now possible (which it wasn't in 3.0) to easily and completely disable the awesome bar? If so then (a) please tell me how to do it
Depending on what you find objectionable, the MozillaZine Knowledge Base has information that might help.
If it's not the matching/searching/etc. that you object to, but rather just the multi-line display, then you need to edit userChrome.css and add something like the following:
/* Set the location bar to show only URLs, on one line */
.autocomplete-richlistitem spacer,.autocomplete-richlistitemlabel{display:none}
.ac-title description{font-size:11px!important}
.autocomplete-richlistitem{border:none!important}
.ac-title{margin:-4px 4px 0px 0px!important;display:none}
.ac-url{margin:-19px 0px 0px 20px!important}
.ac-url description{color:MenuText!important}
.ac-url description[selected="true"]{color:White!important}
Maybe I'm missing something in the "options" dialog, but I can't find anything that controls the look of the URL/location/awesome/whatever bar.
OK, so you say I need to make some changes in "about:config". Not exactly easy, seeing as how not every configuration item exists by default, and the available help information is poor (to say the least).
Once I work through all that, it turns out there isn't actually any way to disable the two-line display (which shows page titles along with URLS) without doing some hacking in userChrome.css. So, basically, there is no easy way to get Firefox 3.0 or higher to display the location bar in a way that is the same as Firefox 2.0.
Channels should provide their programming guide. Each channel should, somewhere, have that information in a standard format.
In the US, they generally do, now that digital TV is the standard.
The big problem is that the box basically needs two tuners if you want to update guide data while watching a channel, since it has to "tune" to the other channels (however briefly) to get the latest data.
I haven't read the article, but if the summary correctly reflects the situation, the traffic lights are all working - they're just working independently, so rather than being in sync so the main flow of traffic never has to stop (or stops less) they're all just doing their own thing.
I haven't read the article, either, but I suppose I could print it out and read it while waiting in the traffic.
The commute here is bad normally, but yesterday was living hell. I watched lights change green for just long enough to let less than four cars in the line of twenty make it through. I watched several lights completely skip cycles in one direction (since they do that at certain times when there is little to no traffic coming from that way) while lines of cars waited.
No. If Machine A fails to apply a patch for whatever reason and machine B comes along 5 minutes later with exactly the same WSUS ID but gets on fine you'll never know about machine A.
Although you are correct about the SUSClientID being in the registry (as I hinted before), the behavior you state generally will not happen with identical SUSClientIDs.
What will happen is that Machine A will fail to patch in some way, then Machine B will succeed, then Machine A will keep trying and reporting, so you generally won't know what happened to Machine B, which won't report again until about 22 hours later (the default contact time for WSUS, but you can control this with GPO).
Did she have any news about Ferris?
Besides, isn't doing good things so that you can get reelected SUPPOSED to be the way things should work?
No, the way things are supposed to work is that politicians should do the right thing, regardless of whether it helps them get re-elected.
As soon as they head down the slippery slope of not doing the right thing because "if I don't get elected, I won't be able to help people any more", it's all over. Once a politician believes that their being in office is the most important thing, then by definition what's important to the people that elected them becomes secondary.
You need to trust that doing the right thing will get you re-elected, and if not, then the people have spoken and don't want what you are trying to do.
your in car GPS is using the unscrambled height measurements so that you can know your true position? You did know that consumer GPS doesn't have the real height in it, right? it uses an altimiter to guess at your height.
The full US satellite GPS accuracy is available to all GPS devices, and has been for nearly 10 years.
Altitude is always an "estimate", as it is based on the mean sea level reference, but if you have at least 4 satellites as reference, this value is as accurately calculated as it can be.
This is absolutely correct.
Identical machine SIDs and WSUS identifiers (stored in the registry) don't stop the updates from being applied...they just cause the WSUS reports to show only the details for the last cloned machine that connected.
I get lots of support requests for PCs. None for Macs. There are several Macs in the family, usually with the less-computer-literate folks, and I never get calls from them.
I suspect you've hit the nail on the head.
If you don't care to stretch yourself much and just want a machine that does e-mail and web browsing, pretty much anything will do. If you want a bit more, then the built-in apps for the Mac will cover you better than 3rd-party software for Windows.
But, if you really want to stretch and need to do something different, chances are you can't do it at all in within the limitations of the Mac (no worries about how to make 3 monitors work, for example), but you might have a problem doing it on Windows, so you'd ask for help.
He said "in 20 years" and then made the mistake of thinking that is 2020 when he meant 2030.
No, I didn't make that mistake.
I assumed that we can't possibly need 128-bit addressing until 20 years from now (about 2030), and so we don't really even need to start thinking about coding for it (or seeing hardware that thinks about accomodating it) until about 10 years from now.
In these architectures, the large number of address bits were used to provide an address space that spanned both memory and disks and was used to provide processor-level protection for objects stored there. Using large address spaces to ensure hardware protection of system objects is a good start on a highly secure OS and is probably where this is going.
But, even 64 bits is enough for that for a long time.
Since you can address over 17 billion terabytes with 64 bits, that means that even with a doubling of storage density every year (which is much faster than things are really happening), that means we have over 20 years before arrays of a couple thousand disks would start to reach the limit.
By then, there will be 128-bit CPUs. So, unless Windows 8 is targeted for 2020, it really doesn't need any 128-bit features.
how much time did you put in to buy the individual parts and assemble them?
Less than two hours, although it did take 3 days for the hardware to show up at my door.
When you know what you want, NewEgg is very fast to navigate...in particular, I just put my entire standard Core i5 wish list into my basket and click "Next" a few times.
After that, putting together well-made components into a "no-tools-required" case isn't even close to the thought required to make a meal from scratch.
what is your hourly pay rate?
I don't get paid for watching football, but that would be cool, wouldn't it? If you can't put together a computer while complaining that the ref is blind, turn in your Slashdot card.
All this, however, doesn't change the fact that your argument is either a red herring or a straw man, but I'm not sure which. If I didn't specifically want a Core i5 machine, I could have ordered up a $700 Core 2 Quad from Dell in the time it takes to read a couple of Slashdot posts.
Last time I checked, when you do a comparison down to a component level of a Mac versus a Dell with equivalent specs, you have to go quite high up in Dell's range before you even find the same CPUs available as an option, never mind standard.
Boy, the Apple fanboys are out astroturfing today.
A Mac Mini starts with a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB hard drive for $599.
Dell has not one, but three machines that beat that spec and the price:
In addition, you can really beat the spec with two quad-core machines for less than $530.
Sure, Dell has a few models with hardware that is less than that of the Mac Mini, but it's not like they are that much cheaper, or that the better models are hidden.
Even the maligned Mac Mini is a pretty good machine for MOST sub $700 machine buyers.
Ridiculous. For less than $800, I just built a Core i5 machine with 4GB of RAM, 1.2TB of hard disk, and a Radeon HD4850 video card (which can drive 2 monitors).
With some cost cutting (less RAM, fewer hard drives, cheaper video card), I could add a bluetooth dongle and match the Mac Mini on all regards...except nothing I could do would make the Core i5 as crappy as the processor in the Mac Mini.
The only thing the Mac Mini has going for it is the form factor, but if that small size isn't important, it's worth less than nothing, since the easy upgrades on even a mini-tower case are a huge advantage.
Agreed.
My household is firmly in that upper-middle-class, and of the 10 computers I use on a weekly basis, none are Macs.
Everything else runs as a VM under VMware ESX.
As has been pointed out (over and over), Mac pricing is quite competitive when you compare (ahem) apples to apples.
This is only somewhat true, since you have huge swaths of product that isn't available from Apple.
In particular, to get a decent, expandable desktop Mac, you need to pay literally a $1000 price premium over a functionally equivalent product. This is because they chose to base their system on a dual-socket Nehalem architecture, instead of offering a single-socket system. But, if you don't need the second processor, you still have to pay the $730 extra for a processor that can be used in a dual-socket system, and about $200 more for the dual-socket motherboard itself, and $20-40/GB more for RAM.
So, technically, the Mac Pro is a much more expandable system, but with a Core i7 or Core i5 processor at 3GHz, you really don't need more than one socket for 99.9% of applications, and all the other options (24GB+ RAM, lots of PCIe slots, etc.) are available on all the single-socket motherboards. Unfortunately, with Apple, your only choice is to either buy a Mac Mini or iMac (with years-old technology inside and no way to expand or upgrade) or buy a MacBook of some sort. If you want a desktop computer, any laptop is a poor economic choice, as you are paying for a box with no upgrade potential, plus a screen, keyboard, and pointing device that you probably will end up not using.
Do you want to *support* four customers who have each put a million dollars in your pocket, or do you want to support four million people who have each put a dollar in your pocket?
This is not an issue for Apple, as Macs don't require any support...or so their ads claim.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
This brings to mind the thought of just letting somebody else decide: pick nothing but Hugo winners:
Not a complete list, of course, but you can't really go wrong with any of them.
Step one: google for overclocking forums, visit them, and see what all the super nerds are using for mainboards. Choose popular mainboard that you can afford, then choose the fastest CPU you can afford for that architecture.
Absolutely correct. I also search the game/DVD copying forums to pick out the best optical drive.
I don't really care about copying that much, but the drives they like the best seem to be able to read everything without any issues, and do so at the highest possible speed. You also learn that the most expensive drive is rarely the best...there are a lot of $30 DVD writers that are close to the best you can buy.
It's getting harder and harder to buy parts and build your own for cheaper than you can get a pre-assembled box. These days, the only reason to build your own is if you want to pick and choose every component for quality, in which case cost is not your primary driver. If you're going for cheap, something pre-assembled from Dell or a similar company is usually cheaper, especially if you consider the value of your time. Even if you value your time at $0/hr, you can still often get a pre-built from Dell cheaper than a comparable build-your-own system.
It's absolutely true that if you want the $200 "Black Friday special", then you can't beat a pre-built system. Or, if you hit Dell when what you want is on sale, you get a great deal. But, if you want more than the default RAM/hard disk/processor/etc. at "regular" prices, parts are the only way to go.
For example, when not on sale, a Dell Core i7 system that defaults to 3GB of RAM will cost you $150 extra to upgrade to 6GB, when you could just buy the 6GB outright for $110. Hard drives are the same...jumping from 640GB to 1000GB adds $100, even though a 1000GB hard drive is only around $100 new.
Talking to deaf passengers...?
Yes, it's even more dangerous than using a cell phone because you have to take both hands off the wheel.
Just so you know, this is illegal in Kansas, as of July 1st. They will be issuing warnings for a year, and then start ticketing.
My prediction is that there will be 1 ticket for this issued for every 1000 speeding tickets issued because of radar (or other devices that require no real work on the part of the police).
Seriously, I've seen many cops completely ignore drivers pulling incredibly stupid moves in order to pull someone over doing 5mph over the limit, and all simply because with the radar the cop doesn't need to put himself on the line to testify. Any "reckless driving" sort of ticket requires the cop to really explain why it was unsafe, and even then it will likely be reduced to something a lot less serious when it is contested.
And, in the case of this law, the cop would have to be driving along with the offender for at least a half-mile while they were blocking someone. Then, when it goes to court, the driver will say something like "I was going to pass, but slowed down because I was afraid the cop was going to ticket me for speeding".
You mean trademarks like Gmail(tm) and the Google(tm) logo? Which are almost certainly being distributed as part of those apps?
And, so what?
If I sell or give you a genuine boxed copy of Microsoft Windows(tm), what law am I breaking? And, if I choose to advertise the fact that I am selling that same product and want to use the trademarked name in my advertisement, Microsoft has no grounds to stop me. They can force me to specifically state that the name is trademarked by them, but that's all.
Trademark exists not to protect businesses, but to protect consumers. That way, you know that if it says "Microsoft" or "Sony" or "Intel", or uses similar packaging, you won't be getting a product from some other company (like "Sorny"). And, this is the crux of why trademark has to be defended or else it is lost.
Out of curiosity, though, whose service do use that will allow you to be master?
I use DNS Made Easy.
For $30/year for up to 10 domains, it's a good value.