Simply put, they should have an "approved" list within the browser's data as opposed to a "disabled" one like they appear to have now. Any new plugin found is disabled until added to the approved list by the user. Sure, it'd probably be possible to edit the list upon installation of said add-on, but that should lock out legitimate developers from doing it (Microsoft wouldn't do that for instance). Malware writers will always find a way I guess.
Seriously, it's not just funny! I use LaTeX all the time in class to take notes and I did have to define some integrals, limits and sums that were getting repeated a bit too often.
Still missing a proper Windows and/or Linux editor, though...
Hold on. Where do you get your statistics, sir? How can you assume the majority of electricity comes from coal, oil and nuclear?
Oh yeah, the USA is everybody! I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there are many countries where greener sources are the main source of energy. Around here, over 90% of our electricity comes from dams. In France, around 75% of the electricity comes from nuclear powerplants with 16% from hydroelectricity (meaning around 90% comes from much cleaner sources than coal and oil). I'm sure there are many other cases where this also holds true.
Point is, it's not because the US is using antiquated, pollution-heavy sources of energy that everyone on the damn planet is. Neither does it mean the US can't change. All it does is eliminate one hurdle to a cleaner future: now we only have to fix powerplants and cars will be fixed at the same time. I call that a great improvement.
And before anyone asks, nuclear is cleaner than coal and oil by miles. There is waste, but it's ridiculously smaller than the impact oil/coal have.
Wait... Isn't Slashdot's source open? Can't you fork it and work it out your way, how you want it? If you're so adamant on criticizing the site, yet won't do anything by yourself, I'm afraid you have little weight in this discussion. You're lucky: you have all the tools and power to do exactly what you want. Whether you choose to sit idly (oh the pun) here whining or act about it is your choice.
I just think you're greatly exaggerating the situation at hand, to be totally honest.
Didn't most people agree that security through obscurity is bad? If using popular open-source software was so bad, how come so many servers use Linux?
I'd argue it's the exact opposite: by choosing a popular, mature CMS, they're insuring a LOT of the vulnerabilities have been found, exploited and fixed. The major difference between the White House site and Joe Web Dev's site is that the former will probably only upgrade for security fixes and will be very careful with new features, since that's where the bugs and exploits can hide. With good sysadmins, proper security tools and good practices, the site can be very safe. I just don't see them using alpha versions of modules and such.
On the flip side, I'm hopeful that WhiteHouse.org's programmers and sysadmins will also contribute to the codebase with fixes and improvements of their own. This could end up being very beneficial for the Drupal community.
All depends on perspective I guess. Haters will scream "It feels like that only because XP/Vista was slowing your computer down!"; lovers will respond "No, it's because they've sped it up!" Glass empty, glass full kind of deal. It's possible that OSX was badly optimized (either in general or for specific cases) and that each update slowly fixed that. It's also totally possible that they've found improvements that they did not know of previously or that weren't implemented before. All a matter of perspective.
What really matters is that it feels better for you, isn't it?
I'm ambivalent. On one side, it's true that this essay can show a lot about yourself, maybe even give insight to both the evaluators and to yourself. It's also true that 500 words is actually rather short in and of itself. I think it's enough to write something if you're succinct and after a lot of rewriting and synthesizing.
On the other hand, however, what they're trying to do here is to downplay the whole thing a bit. It might have been a nice tradition, but as a student who stresses a lot over somewhat negligible things, I can honestly say that doing this 500-word essay would be nerve-wracking. By shortening it and spacing it out in multiple bursts, you reduce overall tension. I can't tell how many times my stress has penalized my grades; maybe the MIT has realized that they could've been losing potential geniuses over simple things like that (I'm growing things out of proportions I know, but small things do stack up eventually) and they're trying to correct the course.
In any case, I just hope this doesn't announce a lowering of the MIT's standards.
It's not the processor architecture that matters, it's that x64 is normally the most "taxing" version of an OS. If the computer can run 7 Ultimate x64, it should be able to run all other versions.
If you can't even fit the disk on your hard drive to rip it! It's all part of a devious scheme to make backup copies impossible to do *puts tinfoil hat*.
The problem is consoles: with releases showing up on a vast array of systems with wildly different capabilities and most games now coming out on consoles first or at the same time as on the PC, it would make no sense for developers to create a game which would be too complex/heavy to be ran on a substantial portion of machines (read: Xbox 360s and PS3s, not even counting the Wii). Thus, games get stale as "old" hardware doesn't get upgraded.
This generation is noticeably different in that consoles now have similar capabilities to PCs and that there no more is that differentiation between PC games and console games, whereas with earlier generations you had a lot of "PC only" and "consoles only" games which were specifically tailored for each medium.
The new chips' lifetime? The impacts on overall computer heat? The energy required to use such memory? What is the expected RAM size to be available at first?
The article looks very scarce on details other than the technology itself which, honestly, doesn't say much about the final product at all.
eSATA doesn't have built-in power supply like USB does. You need hybrid USB plugs and additional USB wires or power connectors, which basically means eSATA flash disks are a pain to set up. If you want portable HDDs, rechargeable phones, flash disks, etc. you need USB for its power supply AND data transfer capabilities.
Like they give support for their cards right now. Sure, if it breaks and it's still under warranty, they'll replace it, but they rarely fix problems with game compatibility unless a majority of their users are experiencing the issue.
If vendor support is so important for you, get a console.
You really think the US will ever manage to pay back their humongous debt? As far as I know, it's never stopped growing, so I doubt it'll ever get cleared unless the debt is just forgotten altogether.
They probably wanted a clear, black-on-white reply that they could present to court or to potential litigators should any threat arise. Better safe than sorry, they say?
Valve will just do the classic of making green blood or saying that these are in fact robots hell-bent on transforming the survivors into furries or something like that...
The "restoration" crack will be available approximately 30 seconds after release in Australia.
TFA says the car is running on a 5% mix Algae, with the rest being gasoline. What exactly does this prove, apart from being a marketing stunt?
If anyone has better knowledge on what just 5% of this fuel can change to the overall MPG rating, I'd be glad to hear about it, but call me sceptical about the whole claim.
I have to say I didn't experience something as bad as what you're describing, but I did get two crashes in about 48 hours for no reason whatsoever (on opening new pages which I open daily and which opened fine when I restarted FF). That seems to be tied with the very latest update (one crash happened like 2 minutes after that).
Despite this, I'm sticking with Firefox. Why? Because I don't think I'd be able to live through ad-laden, malicious script-filled Internet; thank you, Adblock and NoScript! Oh and, I couldn't work without Firebug and Web Developer toolbar. Seriously, Firefox's biggest strength is its extensive plugin library and the fact it doesn't do anything really badly.
And yet, when a copyright holder comes and asks for withdrawal of a book on all Kindles in the world, Amazon has a mechanism for that. I know they've already apologized, but it just felt ironic.
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And I just finished handing out my mod points in another news post... Mod parent up! The GP apparently didn't even look at the page he's criticizing.
Obviously it was meant as a workaround to Microsoft's limitation on screen size for Windows 7 and above!
Simply put, they should have an "approved" list within the browser's data as opposed to a "disabled" one like they appear to have now. Any new plugin found is disabled until added to the approved list by the user. Sure, it'd probably be possible to edit the list upon installation of said add-on, but that should lock out legitimate developers from doing it (Microsoft wouldn't do that for instance). Malware writers will always find a way I guess.
Seriously, it's not just funny! I use LaTeX all the time in class to take notes and I did have to define some integrals, limits and sums that were getting repeated a bit too often.
Still missing a proper Windows and/or Linux editor, though...
Hold on. Where do you get your statistics, sir? How can you assume the majority of electricity comes from coal, oil and nuclear?
Oh yeah, the USA is everybody! I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there are many countries where greener sources are the main source of energy. Around here, over 90% of our electricity comes from dams. In France, around 75% of the electricity comes from nuclear powerplants with 16% from hydroelectricity (meaning around 90% comes from much cleaner sources than coal and oil). I'm sure there are many other cases where this also holds true.
Point is, it's not because the US is using antiquated, pollution-heavy sources of energy that everyone on the damn planet is. Neither does it mean the US can't change. All it does is eliminate one hurdle to a cleaner future: now we only have to fix powerplants and cars will be fixed at the same time. I call that a great improvement.
And before anyone asks, nuclear is cleaner than coal and oil by miles. There is waste, but it's ridiculously smaller than the impact oil/coal have.
Wait... Isn't Slashdot's source open? Can't you fork it and work it out your way, how you want it? If you're so adamant on criticizing the site, yet won't do anything by yourself, I'm afraid you have little weight in this discussion. You're lucky: you have all the tools and power to do exactly what you want. Whether you choose to sit idly (oh the pun) here whining or act about it is your choice.
I just think you're greatly exaggerating the situation at hand, to be totally honest.
Didn't most people agree that security through obscurity is bad? If using popular open-source software was so bad, how come so many servers use Linux?
I'd argue it's the exact opposite: by choosing a popular, mature CMS, they're insuring a LOT of the vulnerabilities have been found, exploited and fixed. The major difference between the White House site and Joe Web Dev's site is that the former will probably only upgrade for security fixes and will be very careful with new features, since that's where the bugs and exploits can hide. With good sysadmins, proper security tools and good practices, the site can be very safe. I just don't see them using alpha versions of modules and such.
On the flip side, I'm hopeful that WhiteHouse.org's programmers and sysadmins will also contribute to the codebase with fixes and improvements of their own. This could end up being very beneficial for the Drupal community.
All depends on perspective I guess. Haters will scream "It feels like that only because XP/Vista was slowing your computer down!"; lovers will respond "No, it's because they've sped it up!" Glass empty, glass full kind of deal. It's possible that OSX was badly optimized (either in general or for specific cases) and that each update slowly fixed that. It's also totally possible that they've found improvements that they did not know of previously or that weren't implemented before. All a matter of perspective.
What really matters is that it feels better for you, isn't it?
Yeah, and we left the Index behind a while ago. Let's not return to those times, shall we?
A bit like Google Docs then? I'm actually surprised they don't share their design ideas around.
I'm ambivalent. On one side, it's true that this essay can show a lot about yourself, maybe even give insight to both the evaluators and to yourself. It's also true that 500 words is actually rather short in and of itself. I think it's enough to write something if you're succinct and after a lot of rewriting and synthesizing.
On the other hand, however, what they're trying to do here is to downplay the whole thing a bit. It might have been a nice tradition, but as a student who stresses a lot over somewhat negligible things, I can honestly say that doing this 500-word essay would be nerve-wracking. By shortening it and spacing it out in multiple bursts, you reduce overall tension. I can't tell how many times my stress has penalized my grades; maybe the MIT has realized that they could've been losing potential geniuses over simple things like that (I'm growing things out of proportions I know, but small things do stack up eventually) and they're trying to correct the course.
In any case, I just hope this doesn't announce a lowering of the MIT's standards.
It's not the processor architecture that matters, it's that x64 is normally the most "taxing" version of an OS. If the computer can run 7 Ultimate x64, it should be able to run all other versions.
This tag has never been more appropriate...
That just further emphasizes the parent's point, doesn't it?
If you can't even fit the disk on your hard drive to rip it! It's all part of a devious scheme to make backup copies impossible to do *puts tinfoil hat*.
The problem is consoles: with releases showing up on a vast array of systems with wildly different capabilities and most games now coming out on consoles first or at the same time as on the PC, it would make no sense for developers to create a game which would be too complex/heavy to be ran on a substantial portion of machines (read: Xbox 360s and PS3s, not even counting the Wii). Thus, games get stale as "old" hardware doesn't get upgraded.
This generation is noticeably different in that consoles now have similar capabilities to PCs and that there no more is that differentiation between PC games and console games, whereas with earlier generations you had a lot of "PC only" and "consoles only" games which were specifically tailored for each medium.
The new chips' lifetime? The impacts on overall computer heat? The energy required to use such memory? What is the expected RAM size to be available at first?
The article looks very scarce on details other than the technology itself which, honestly, doesn't say much about the final product at all.
eSATA doesn't have built-in power supply like USB does. You need hybrid USB plugs and additional USB wires or power connectors, which basically means eSATA flash disks are a pain to set up. If you want portable HDDs, rechargeable phones, flash disks, etc. you need USB for its power supply AND data transfer capabilities.
Like they give support for their cards right now. Sure, if it breaks and it's still under warranty, they'll replace it, but they rarely fix problems with game compatibility unless a majority of their users are experiencing the issue.
If vendor support is so important for you, get a console.
You really think the US will ever manage to pay back their humongous debt? As far as I know, it's never stopped growing, so I doubt it'll ever get cleared unless the debt is just forgotten altogether.
They probably wanted a clear, black-on-white reply that they could present to court or to potential litigators should any threat arise. Better safe than sorry, they say?
Valve will just do the classic of making green blood or saying that these are in fact robots hell-bent on transforming the survivors into furries or something like that...
The "restoration" crack will be available approximately 30 seconds after release in Australia.
TFA says the car is running on a 5% mix Algae, with the rest being gasoline. What exactly does this prove, apart from being a marketing stunt?
If anyone has better knowledge on what just 5% of this fuel can change to the overall MPG rating, I'd be glad to hear about it, but call me sceptical about the whole claim.
I have to say I didn't experience something as bad as what you're describing, but I did get two crashes in about 48 hours for no reason whatsoever (on opening new pages which I open daily and which opened fine when I restarted FF). That seems to be tied with the very latest update (one crash happened like 2 minutes after that).
Despite this, I'm sticking with Firefox. Why? Because I don't think I'd be able to live through ad-laden, malicious script-filled Internet; thank you, Adblock and NoScript! Oh and, I couldn't work without Firebug and Web Developer toolbar. Seriously, Firefox's biggest strength is its extensive plugin library and the fact it doesn't do anything really badly.
And yet, when a copyright holder comes and asks for withdrawal of a book on all Kindles in the world, Amazon has a mechanism for that. I know they've already apologized, but it just felt ironic.