To make web sites readable. I can't read text when there is stuff moving around the screen screaming for my attention. AdBlock would do 95% of the same, but the ads pay for the content, so I don't like to block them.
> In fact a lot of sites would be crippled by it.
Permanently deblocking a trusted site is a one mouse click-and-drag operation. You can also temporarily deblock a site, or a single object.
> Really there's no benefit here besides feeding one's paranoia.
That's not my main reason, but I admit that it makes me feel safer clicking links on sites like reddit (/. has a better, if slower, screening process).
The "serial" you lived through is likely RS-232-C, defined in 1969, and not exactly hard to find support for today.
The parallel interface is likely IEEE 1284 from 1994, but backward compatible with the Centronics interface introduced sometime in the 70s. You won't have to look far to find a IEEE 1284 connector either, even if it is slightly less common.
USB 1.0 is from 1996. Finding a PC that doesn't support it will be more difficult than either of the above challenges.
General purpose data connectors seem to be long lived.
Storage media less so, finding a reader for 8" floppy disk (the standard of the 70s) is much more difficult.
Noscript doesn't turn off Javascript. Most browsers already have an option for that. What Noscript does is to make the control of Javascript (and Flash) much more fine grained and convenient.
Some typical case:
1. Scripts on poor web sites just serve to detract from the content. Those you simply never turn on.
2. Scripts on good web sites improve access to content. Those sites you enable permanently first time you visit (press no Noscript button in the lower right corner, and select "enable permanently") and forget about it.
3. Some web sites contain a mix of the two. Here you can either explicitly enable a specific object (by clicking on a placeholder, like with flashblock), or temporarily enable scripts for that site.
Basically, Noscript makes more, not less, of the web accessible. The good web sites you use normally will not be affected (as they all will be allowed to run scripts). But following links from social web sites like/. become a much more pleasant experience.
Of course, most of the noise scripts distacting from content are ads, so AdBlock gives you much of the same benefit. But I don't want to hide ads, as that is how the sites pay their bills.
Yes, the Danish rule is that after 6 month, the carrier is obliged to unlock your phone for free.
The carrier I use (Telmore) doesn't even bother with that, they just sell them unlocked. It makes the most sense anyway, if you buy a subsidized phone, why should they care whether you actually use their bandwidth? You have to pay them the monthly fee for the binding period (6 months) in any case.
Suggestion: Install some of the demos or free games available (I can recommend Peggle Extreme casual or the Sam&Max point and click adventure), and test out if the steam offline mode works for you. It has improved a lot recently, but some still reports problems, therefore the suggestion to try it for yourself.
The EU Commission is a non-elected body which has as it sole mandate[1] to restrict the rights of citizens, and extend the rights of EU based corporations. It is the Commission that negotiate these treaties, and in general propose new legislation.
The EU Parliament is an elected body which cannot propose new legislation, but can, and sometimes do, block the proposals from the commission. The good stuff you hear from the EU is usually from the Parliament, but they contribute their share of crap as well, as parliaments do everywhere.
I'm pretty sure the main purpose is for porting Unix applications to MS Windows, and/or for maintaining a common build environment for the two platforms. At least that is what I use it for. I actually compile with MinGW as the application itself have very few OS dependencies, Cygwin "just" provides the pure build environment.
I also used to use Cygwin/X11 to provide a Unix like interactive programming environment, but as the MS version of GNU Emacs is quite good these days, and GNU Emacs itself provide most of the common environment I need, I don't bother with that anymore.
Modern coal, wood and straw burning plants are all quite clean. If you see a polluting one, it is either from the 70's or before, or build with technology from that era. I guess countries with lax environmental laws will still allow such polluting power plants to be build, but Denmark's environmental laws are not lax.
I'd probably not attribute HP, but I might attribute Mathematica if I used results of computations that are non-trivial (not easily recreatable without Mathematica).
I believe it will sort itself out with Wolfram Alpha. Normally you'd try to go to the primary sources and attribute them (just like you'd do with Wikipedia and Google). And simple calculations could be done by any means, so attribution is not necessary (the presented results cannot be traced back to Wolfram Alpha).
But for some of the more specialized queries where you let Wolfram Alpha combine information from multiple sources and perform computations on them, you will want to add an attribution. The sources section of Wolfram Alpha is sufficiently vague and the computations sometimes non-transparent, that you are basically trusting Wolfram Alpha on this stuff, and your readers deserve to know this.
It also serves as an insurance if the information happens to be wrong. Wrong information presented with attribution is the fault of the source, wrong information given without attribution is your responsibility.
I presume the poster doesn't read the kernel list, or other development lists. There is no lack of constructive and informed (or otherwise) critique.
If he talks about the user experience, critique is more complicated because Linux is not that well defined when leaving the kernel. There is usually always a patch or package or distribution that does it in another way, which you will tend to be told if you just address your critique vaguely to "Linux".
It makes much more sense to critique a specific distribution, which is what is responsible for the user experience, but again, there is not really a lack of distribution specific critique either, partly due to the competition between distributions.
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> Why do you hate the USA?
Because at the time you can make use of malls and navy seals, the game tend to be decided anyway.
> Why would you want to use No Script?
To make web sites readable. I can't read text when there is stuff moving around the screen screaming for my attention.
AdBlock would do 95% of the same, but the ads pay for the content, so I don't like to block them.
> In fact a lot of sites would be crippled by it.
Permanently deblocking a trusted site is a one mouse click-and-drag operation. You can also temporarily deblock a site, or a single object.
> Really there's no benefit here besides feeding one's paranoia.
That's not my main reason, but I admit that it makes me feel safer clicking links on sites like reddit (/. has a better, if slower, screening process).
If they worked for IBM or SGI, two large contributers to the Linux kernel, they could. SGI at one point contributed UNIX derived code.
The "serial" you lived through is likely RS-232-C, defined in 1969, and not exactly hard to find support for today.
The parallel interface is likely IEEE 1284 from 1994, but backward compatible with the Centronics interface introduced sometime in the 70s. You won't have to look far to find a IEEE 1284 connector either, even if it is slightly less common.
USB 1.0 is from 1996. Finding a PC that doesn't support it will be more difficult than either of the above challenges.
General purpose data connectors seem to be long lived.
Storage media less so, finding a reader for 8" floppy disk (the standard of the 70s) is much more difficult.
Noscript doesn't turn off Javascript. Most browsers already have an option for that. What Noscript does is to make the control of Javascript (and Flash) much more fine grained and convenient.
Some typical case:
1. Scripts on poor web sites just serve to detract from the content. Those you simply never turn on.
2. Scripts on good web sites improve access to content. Those sites you enable permanently first time you visit (press no Noscript button in the lower right corner, and select "enable permanently") and forget about it.
3. Some web sites contain a mix of the two. Here you can either explicitly enable a specific object (by clicking on a placeholder, like with flashblock), or temporarily enable scripts for that site.
Basically, Noscript makes more, not less, of the web accessible. The good web sites you use normally will not be affected (as they all will be allowed to run scripts). But following links from social web sites like /. become a much more pleasant experience.
Of course, most of the noise scripts distacting from content are ads, so AdBlock gives you much of the same benefit. But I don't want to hide ads, as that is how the sites pay their bills.
Approval voting is possibly even easier for voters to understand than fptp, since you can still just vote for whoever you like the most.
Yes, the Danish rule is that after 6 month, the carrier is obliged to unlock your phone for free.
The carrier I use (Telmore) doesn't even bother with that, they just sell them unlocked. It makes the most sense anyway, if you buy a subsidized phone, why should they care whether you actually use their bandwidth? You have to pay them the monthly fee for the binding period (6 months) in any case.
Location and strength of wi-fi spots was collected deliberately and openly, content of data passed through wi-fi was collected by accident.
The only one I know of.
Learn the difference between isA and hasA relationships.
The Ada front end is written in Ada.
That should be "why i like google", with quotes.
I binged "why i like microsoft", and received 133 hits.
In comparison, bing gives 211.000.000 hits for why i like google.
> but outside of a few basement dwellers
And who do you think the core audience of /. are?
Suggestion: Install some of the demos or free games available (I can recommend Peggle Extreme casual or the Sam&Max point and click adventure), and test out if the steam offline mode works for you. It has improved a lot recently, but some still reports problems, therefore the suggestion to try it for yourself.
His adventures are available from Project Gutenberg, so I would assume they are safely in the Public Domain by now.
The EU Commission is a non-elected body which has as it sole mandate[1] to restrict the rights of citizens, and extend the rights of EU based corporations. It is the Commission that negotiate these treaties, and in general propose new legislation.
The EU Parliament is an elected body which cannot propose new legislation, but can, and sometimes do, block the proposals from the commission. The good stuff you hear from the EU is usually from the Parliament, but they contribute their share of crap as well, as parliaments do everywhere.
[1] Judging by its actions.
You can then do online banking directly from the host OS (if you deem it secure enough), or from a different VM.
I'm pretty sure the main purpose is for porting Unix applications to MS Windows, and/or for maintaining a common build environment for the two platforms. At least that is what I use it for. I actually compile with MinGW as the application itself have very few OS dependencies, Cygwin "just" provides the pure build environment.
I also used to use Cygwin/X11 to provide a Unix like interactive programming environment, but as the MS version of GNU Emacs is quite good these days, and GNU Emacs itself provide most of the common environment I need, I don't bother with that anymore.
What is now SCO used to be called Caldera, one of the first Linux companies. The old Unix (Xenix) company SCO is now Tarantella.
Modern coal, wood and straw burning plants are all quite clean. If you see a polluting one, it is either from the 70's or before, or build with technology from that era. I guess countries with lax environmental laws will still allow such polluting power plants to be build, but Denmark's environmental laws are not lax.
The source has him as Larsen, also here is his work page.
Speed don't kill. Sudden deceleration kills.
Outlaw sudden deceleration.
I'd probably not attribute HP, but I might attribute Mathematica if I used results of computations that are non-trivial (not easily recreatable without Mathematica).
I believe it will sort itself out with Wolfram Alpha. Normally you'd try to go to the primary sources and attribute them (just like you'd do with Wikipedia and Google). And simple calculations could be done by any means, so attribution is not necessary (the presented results cannot be traced back to Wolfram Alpha).
But for some of the more specialized queries where you let Wolfram Alpha combine information from multiple sources and perform computations on them, you will want to add an attribution. The sources section of Wolfram Alpha is sufficiently vague and the computations sometimes non-transparent, that you are basically trusting Wolfram Alpha on this stuff, and your readers deserve to know this.
It also serves as an insurance if the information happens to be wrong. Wrong information presented with attribution is the fault of the source, wrong information given without attribution is your responsibility.
I presume the poster doesn't read the kernel list, or other development lists. There is no lack of constructive and informed (or otherwise) critique.
If he talks about the user experience, critique is more complicated because Linux is not that well defined when leaving the kernel. There is usually always a patch or package or distribution that does it in another way, which you will tend to be told if you just address your critique vaguely to "Linux".
It makes much more sense to critique a specific distribution, which is what is responsible for the user experience, but again, there is not really a lack of distribution specific critique either, partly due to the competition between distributions.