[......] if you are going to talk about the top three, and only three, browsers, it would have to be Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
Maybe. But only just.
Safari and Opera are pretty much neck and neck compared to Firefox and IE. Safari is probably a few tenths of a percentage point ahead of Opera, but both of their market shares are pretty insignificant compared to the top two.
There isn't really a top three - there's either a top two or a top four.
No, you DO NOT want a NAT. You want a properly configured firewall.
In an ideal world, where everyone in control of a computer knows how to use it, of course that's true. However, 99.9% of people in control of computers don't know how to use them - so the chances of a properly configured firewall is close to zero.
That's a disadvantage for 99% of internet users. NAT blocks direct access to your computer from the internet - which is a very good thing in most cases. Only a small proportion of geeks are likely to know what to do with direct access, or care about it - and most of them can get public IP addresses now, if they want them, anyway.
The hideous mess of viruses and spambots that comprises the vast majority of internet connected computers can surely only get much worse if anyone can get direct access to them. Yeah, i know a firewall will make it more secure, but antiviruses should have prevented the mess we've got today!
Well, maybe ideally all employers would allow their workers to spend one day a week working on creative stuff that was unrelated to their work. That would allow everyone to be creative and would probably lead to much better "art" than what's produced by professional artists and writers etc. It would also allow all art to be free - which make the world a better place.
It would probably also mean that workers were more productive in the other four days than they are now in five!
Why just the arts? What gives artists the unique ability to live on air alone and not pay rent or buy clothes? Surely anyone producing anything is just as capable of working when they live on the street and don't eat!
Whether it's on sale or not, downloading a free digital copy isn't stealing. It may be breach of copyright, but it's not stealing. They're two totally different things and should never be confused.
a functioning used book market increases the value for all book holders. By getting rid of the secondary market, the value is destroyed for potential new-book buyers.
Maybe, maybe not. But there's very little chance the current owner of a copy of the book could succesfully sue you for the loss they've suffered from you downloading a pirate ebook rather than buying their copy. And as the book's out of print, reducing the secondhand value doesn't cause any material loss to the copyright owner either.
It's better to relearn it now, while you've got the option of switching back to the right hand when you need to - rather than wait till your right hand's so bad you can't use is any more. I use a normal two button plus scroll wheel right handed mouse, configured normally (i.e., not with buttons switched).
One very important consideration when it comes to avoiding RSI etc is never use those small sized mouses. Like all too-small tools, they'll ruin your hands faster than anything.
As far as numeric keypads go, i don't understand why every keyboard has to have them. I'm sure they never get used on 99% of keyboards. However, you can buy keyboards without them.
Laptops can often be just as bad on the other side though - my current one's got the audio sockets and a USB socket on the left side so the plugs stick out right where i want to be using the mouse!
Have you tried using a mouse with the left hand rather than the right?
I'm mainly right handed, but when i started using a mouse in the early 90s i deliberately started using it with my left hand. I figured that if i used it with my left hand it would be easy to swap over to my right hand if i needed to, but if i started using my right hand it would be hard to swap to the left and i'd never do it. I hoped to avoid RSI type problems that way - and i pretty much have.
Re:They are using RPM 4.6.0 release candidate
on
Fedora 10 Released
·
· Score: 1
NetworkManager has its moments, i must say - and it's pissed me off on occasion - but mostly it's pretty good really.
Seriously, if the British took it out it would be no more than a blip on the road, if that. I doubt any but a few geeks would bitch or care.
That depends on what you mean by "took it out". If it's not a sovereign nation, then it's private property within the UK. It may have been squatted in the 60s by Roy Bates - in which case the limitation period has expired and it's now his private property. The UK government couldn't just go "taking out" the private property of UK citizens without some serious repercussions.
> But if it is true then it's time to fix your diet so you're eating better food with more absorbable forms of the relevant nutrients
Can you provide a quanititative argument/evidence as to why this is necessarily better than taking well-chose vitamin supplements?
Not quantitative, no - qualitative, maybe... Eating well is about much more than just getting the right nutrients, for one thing. If you eat properly and get the right nutrients from your food, you'll almost certainly be helping your overall physical and mental wellbeing in various ways.
> taking supplements doesn't help your body deal with absorption difficulties.
And is this just opinion, or is it based in any kind of study? If so, links, plz.
Not so much opinion as logic - although possibly not well expressed. My point is that if absorption isn't optimum then taking supplements is just a workaround, without addressing the causes of sub-optimal absorption. It's generally much better to fix a problem than to work around it.
[......] while most of your data may still be going over BT's networks, BT won't have a legal leg to stand on if they try to intercept communications belonging to people who aren't even their own customers.
It's not technically feasible for them to do that, anyway.
I suggest you do some minimal research on vitamin absorption and aging. (hint - it doesn't get better).
That may or may not be true - and i'm sure it depends to a large extent on diet. But if it is true then it's time to fix your diet so you're eating better food with more absorbable forms of the relevant nutrients - taking supplements doesn't help your body deal with absorption difficulties.
You are correct that most under 30's don't need vitamins, but by the time you hit 40, B12, C, and D aren't absorbed as well.
I don't believe vitamin D production from sunlight is affected by age. That's by far the best way to get it - specially if you work with computers.
For mental functioning, B12 is the big one.
Stopping drinking's the best way to help with that!
Also, daily multi-vitamins and exercise helps too, [......]
I think it's best to avoid supplements and make sure you get all the nutrition you need from food. Vitamin supplements etc can throw out your body's natural balance and make things worse.
This is probably particularly true with multi-vitamins. Surely you don't need all those extra vitamins - what effects are the ones you're not deficient in having on the way your body functions?
Yeah, man. Marijuana will save the world! You can live off the seeds, make everything you'd ever need out of the fibre. I'm building a hemp fibre spaceship, powered by hemp seed oil, and i'm going to go and live on the moon and grow cannabis forever.
Slashdot Mirror
There are no computers like that in Afghanistan. East Timor, maybe.
Maybe. But only just.
Safari and Opera are pretty much neck and neck compared to Firefox and IE. Safari is probably a few tenths of a percentage point ahead of Opera, but both of their market shares are pretty insignificant compared to the top two.
There isn't really a top three - there's either a top two or a top four.
Moderated "-1 Disagree", i see!
In an ideal world, where everyone in control of a computer knows how to use it, of course that's true. However, 99.9% of people in control of computers don't know how to use them - so the chances of a properly configured firewall is close to zero.
That's a disadvantage for 99% of internet users. NAT blocks direct access to your computer from the internet - which is a very good thing in most cases. Only a small proportion of geeks are likely to know what to do with direct access, or care about it - and most of them can get public IP addresses now, if they want them, anyway.
The hideous mess of viruses and spambots that comprises the vast majority of internet connected computers can surely only get much worse if anyone can get direct access to them. Yeah, i know a firewall will make it more secure, but antiviruses should have prevented the mess we've got today!
Well, maybe ideally all employers would allow their workers to spend one day a week working on creative stuff that was unrelated to their work. That would allow everyone to be creative and would probably lead to much better "art" than what's produced by professional artists and writers etc. It would also allow all art to be free - which make the world a better place.
It would probably also mean that workers were more productive in the other four days than they are now in five!
Why just the arts? What gives artists the unique ability to live on air alone and not pay rent or buy clothes? Surely anyone producing anything is just as capable of working when they live on the street and don't eat!
Whether it's on sale or not, downloading a free digital copy isn't stealing. It may be breach of copyright, but it's not stealing. They're two totally different things and should never be confused.
Maybe, maybe not. But there's very little chance the current owner of a copy of the book could succesfully sue you for the loss they've suffered from you downloading a pirate ebook rather than buying their copy. And as the book's out of print, reducing the secondhand value doesn't cause any material loss to the copyright owner either.
It's not theft. The original question refers to an ebook that's available for free. Nobody's stealing anything!
It's better to relearn it now, while you've got the option of switching back to the right hand when you need to - rather than wait till your right hand's so bad you can't use is any more. I use a normal two button plus scroll wheel right handed mouse, configured normally (i.e., not with buttons switched).
One very important consideration when it comes to avoiding RSI etc is never use those small sized mouses. Like all too-small tools, they'll ruin your hands faster than anything.
As far as numeric keypads go, i don't understand why every keyboard has to have them. I'm sure they never get used on 99% of keyboards. However, you can buy keyboards without them.
Laptops can often be just as bad on the other side though - my current one's got the audio sockets and a USB socket on the left side so the plugs stick out right where i want to be using the mouse!
I'm mainly right handed, but when i started using a mouse in the early 90s i deliberately started using it with my left hand. I figured that if i used it with my left hand it would be easy to swap over to my right hand if i needed to, but if i started using my right hand it would be hard to swap to the left and i'd never do it. I hoped to avoid RSI type problems that way - and i pretty much have.
NetworkManager has its moments, i must say - and it's pissed me off on occasion - but mostly it's pretty good really.
Yeah, 9 was a big improvement on 8 and 10 is better than 9 - although not to such an obviously large extent.
I know nothing about the US, but i do know about English property law - and i can assure you the courts would care.
That depends on what you mean by "took it out". If it's not a sovereign nation, then it's private property within the UK. It may have been squatted in the 60s by Roy Bates - in which case the limitation period has expired and it's now his private property. The UK government couldn't just go "taking out" the private property of UK citizens without some serious repercussions.
Maybe. But while it's in your blood stream (until it's excreted) it's affecting your body chemistry.
Not quantitative, no - qualitative, maybe... Eating well is about much more than just getting the right nutrients, for one thing. If you eat properly and get the right nutrients from your food, you'll almost certainly be helping your overall physical and mental wellbeing in various ways.
Not so much opinion as logic - although possibly not well expressed. My point is that if absorption isn't optimum then taking supplements is just a workaround, without addressing the causes of sub-optimal absorption. It's generally much better to fix a problem than to work around it.
It's not technically feasible for them to do that, anyway.
Mate, that's a sign of getting sensible, not old!
Red wine, actually!
That may or may not be true - and i'm sure it depends to a large extent on diet. But if it is true then it's time to fix your diet so you're eating better food with more absorbable forms of the relevant nutrients - taking supplements doesn't help your body deal with absorption difficulties.
I don't believe vitamin D production from sunlight is affected by age. That's by far the best way to get it - specially if you work with computers.
Stopping drinking's the best way to help with that!
I think it's best to avoid supplements and make sure you get all the nutrition you need from food. Vitamin supplements etc can throw out your body's natural balance and make things worse.
This is probably particularly true with multi-vitamins. Surely you don't need all those extra vitamins - what effects are the ones you're not deficient in having on the way your body functions?
Yeah, man. Marijuana will save the world! You can live off the seeds, make everything you'd ever need out of the fibre. I'm building a hemp fibre spaceship, powered by hemp seed oil, and i'm going to go and live on the moon and grow cannabis forever.
The only drawback (or perhaps the main advantage) of this method is that nobody will be able to tell if you're senile or just stoned.