Hey, fast ISO downoads are important to the morale of those of us who are forced to work for the government. UT lag is a real productivity drain too. How could we effectively fight terrorism if we can't use deathmatches to keep our skills sharp? Do you really want your tax dollars wasted on government workers trying to figure out how to use that phone thing?
RealOne is much worse. You don't even see most of those options during the install anymore. After installing, you have to go into the preferences and disable that stuff. They also make you register with them before you change some of your settings.
By the way, if any of you are tired of RealOne popping up those messages in the corner of your screen, find the two occurences of tkBell in your registry and delete them. The first key is under one of the Run folders. The second key seems to recreate the first key if it's deleted. I haven't taken the time yet to see if it does or if I can change the key it recreates and accomplish priveledge escalation.
I'll have to disagree with you. Just because SPAM usually is bulk certainly doesn't mean it has to be. SPAM is unsolicited, usually commercial, email. If I didn't specifically request an email or it's not from an individual trying to initiate corespondance with me personally and non-commercially, it's SPAM.
You might enjoy your television, but it does not provide utility
I'll have to disagree. The TV can provide weather reports, breaking news, traffic conditions, stock reports, documentaries, and those very informative infomercials. The TV isn't as interactive as the web, but it certainly provides utility.
ZDNetMail had a spell checker for their web-based mail prior to their partnering with Onebox a while back. They marked questionable words by making a dropdown box with suggested replacements. You pick which spelling you prefer and continue. I wouldn't think it'd be that difficult. I'm not sure about how much overhead it would cause though. They've got money to burn on new servers though, don't they?
I'd imagine they could also use nanotechnology or piezoelectric sheets to generate enough electricity from body movement. I can't imagine nanobots use much power. Even while standing still, your body is moving a lot.
I do not mind waiting for a large download with all the dependacies included, rather than searching the net like a lunatic just so I can get this app to work
Then you'd just end up in "DLL Hell". Each program would install it's own slightly customized version of a lib breaking another program which would in turn be broken by another install with it's own custom libs. Be carefull what you wish for. There's no easy answer. Besides, compiling a program yourself will yield better performance.
why is is that google can cache a story/webpage, but the content can't be pasted as part of a./ posting? what makes it illegal? the poster isn't claiming the statements are his, merely quoting a source as they would in a term paper or such.
As far as term papers go, it's usually frowned apon to copy the text of an entire work. This is often referred to as cheating. Fair use allows short excerpts to be used for purposes of review or such things. As far as Google being able to do it, the legallity has been questioned in the past and probably will be again. If the webmaster prefers, he can use a robots.txt to ask web crawlers to ignore particular pages. The "Well he was doing it to" routine doesn't work too well.
Someone please mod the parent as redundant. I'm tired of people copying the story. It's illegal in nearly all cases. There's a reason/. doesn't automatically cache stories. Providing links to a Google cache or a similar story is more than sufficient.
That'd be fine until they screw up their system becaue they don't know what they're doing and start suing. Have you forgotton that here in the US of A the family lawyer is as common as the family doctor?
HTML was never intended to be used for complicated page layouts. Forcing it to do so gets messy. XML is the way to go. Isn't StarOffice 6 supposed to use an XML file format? Has anyoen taken a close look at it?
But most people just don't care. They're perfectly happy to be running Office 97 on Windows 98 with a picture of their grandkid as the wallpaper. Sure it crashes once in a while, but that's normal (in their point of view), right? If they switch OSs, they have to relearn the most fundamental ideas about how they use their system. Why should they bother?
If I bought their product, I should be able to use it any way I choose
That's the problem. You didn't buy it. You licensed it. What you gave them money for was the right to use the software for a specific purpose. That's why companies can "sell" software to corporations that they "give" away for free to non-comercial users. I still don't agree with what they did, but I don't know how much we can do about it. I guess it all really depends on what the EULA says and how enforcable it is.
It looks like it's definately worth a try. I just have one question. [Is it possible|How difficult is it] to switch between Litestep and Explorer? Can you choose at boot time? What sort of problems might I expect?
Spot on, except for one thing. You don't have to run X on Linux, you do have to run explorer.exe on Windows.
Well, not quite true. You have to run wm.exe and a couple others, but not explorer.exe. You can run progman.exe if you like in place of explorer.exe. I'd like to see a nice drop in replacement of explorer.exe for Windows. A light, fast 32-bit interface would be nice.
I don't even look at the polls anymore. They look more like a marketing survey than anything else. I'd like to know how much of the gathered information is kept and for what purposes.
I can't see the sense in clustering Windows. The GUI and other parts of the system add a lot of unnecessary overhead. If MS wrote a clustering OS from the ground up, it'd be worth considering. Every job has it's tool, and IMHO Windows in it's current state is a hammer trying to remove a screw; use all the hammers you want, it won't get the screw any looser.
I want to be able to sort posts by funny, insightful etc.
To see funny (or whichever you want) posts, go into your preferences and give a +6 bonus to comments rated funny and -6 penalty to all others (adjust as you see fit) then view comments rated 5. Crude but effective. I guess it's effective; I haven't tried it. =)
Microsoft is very successful but makes very bad products
Microsoft makes some very good products; they're just not as good as they could/should be. I love to hate them too, but give credit where credit is due. Despite their methods, Microsoft has built a very user-friendly, consistent, functional suite of products. They even have some really good ideas once in a while that they didn't "aquire".
well if you actually use these ads you should support outcomes based on relevance values, not user-irrelevant data such as contribution amount.
That's what the search results and the directory are for. They are what draw in the visitors and provide value. The advertisements are presented seperately from the results and are the source of income which make the ranked results possible. Like the previous poster said, that's how advertising works. If you want prominant placement of your ads, you pay a premium.
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Hey, fast ISO downoads are important to the morale of those of us who are forced to work for the government. UT lag is a real productivity drain too. How could we effectively fight terrorism if we can't use deathmatches to keep our skills sharp? Do you really want your tax dollars wasted on government workers trying to figure out how to use that phone thing?
I wouldn't be suprised to see spam@whitehouse.gov on their list either
RealOne is much worse. You don't even see most of those options during the install anymore. After installing, you have to go into the preferences and disable that stuff. They also make you register with them before you change some of your settings.
By the way, if any of you are tired of RealOne popping up those messages in the corner of your screen, find the two occurences of tkBell in your registry and delete them. The first key is under one of the Run folders. The second key seems to recreate the first key if it's deleted. I haven't taken the time yet to see if it does or if I can change the key it recreates and accomplish priveledge escalation.
I'll have to disagree with you. Just because SPAM usually is bulk certainly doesn't mean it has to be. SPAM is unsolicited, usually commercial, email. If I didn't specifically request an email or it's not from an individual trying to initiate corespondance with me personally and non-commercially, it's SPAM.
You might enjoy your television, but it does not provide utility
I'll have to disagree. The TV can provide weather reports, breaking news, traffic conditions, stock reports, documentaries, and those very informative infomercials. The TV isn't as interactive as the web, but it certainly provides utility.
ZDNetMail had a spell checker for their web-based mail prior to their partnering with Onebox a while back. They marked questionable words by making a dropdown box with suggested replacements. You pick which spelling you prefer and continue. I wouldn't think it'd be that difficult. I'm not sure about how much overhead it would cause though. They've got money to burn on new servers though, don't they?
I'd imagine they could also use nanotechnology or piezoelectric sheets to generate enough electricity from body movement. I can't imagine nanobots use much power. Even while standing still, your body is moving a lot.
When I read the headline I thought for SURE it said "Linux turning tricks?" I was very eager to see what in the world the article was about.
It means Google is your startup page, not your homepage. Are you Google? Then it's not your homepage.
I've never used/heard of IPFW. How does it compare to IPTables. Do you get the same level of granularity?
I do not mind waiting for a large download with all the dependacies included, rather than searching the net like a lunatic just so I can get this app to work
Then you'd just end up in "DLL Hell". Each program would install it's own slightly customized version of a lib breaking another program which would in turn be broken by another install with it's own custom libs. Be carefull what you wish for. There's no easy answer. Besides, compiling a program yourself will yield better performance.
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why is is that google can cache a story/webpage, but the content can't be pasted as part of a ./ posting? what makes it illegal? the poster isn't claiming the statements are his, merely quoting a source as they would in a term paper or such.
As far as term papers go, it's usually frowned apon to copy the text of an entire work. This is often referred to as cheating. Fair use allows short excerpts to be used for purposes of review or such things. As far as Google being able to do it, the legallity has been questioned in the past and probably will be again. If the webmaster prefers, he can use a robots.txt to ask web crawlers to ignore particular pages. The "Well he was doing it to" routine doesn't work too well.
Someone please mod the parent as redundant. I'm tired of people copying the story. It's illegal in nearly all cases. There's a reason /. doesn't automatically cache stories. Providing links to a Google cache or a similar story is more than sufficient.
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That'd be fine until they screw up their system becaue they don't know what they're doing and start suing. Have you forgotton that here in the US of A the family lawyer is as common as the family doctor?
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HTML was never intended to be used for complicated page layouts. Forcing it to do so gets messy. XML is the way to go. Isn't StarOffice 6 supposed to use an XML file format? Has anyoen taken a close look at it?
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But most people just don't care. They're perfectly happy to be running Office 97 on Windows 98 with a picture of their grandkid as the wallpaper. Sure it crashes once in a while, but that's normal (in their point of view), right? If they switch OSs, they have to relearn the most fundamental ideas about how they use their system. Why should they bother?
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If I bought their product, I should be able to use it any way I choose
That's the problem. You didn't buy it. You licensed it. What you gave them money for was the right to use the software for a specific purpose. That's why companies can "sell" software to corporations that they "give" away for free to non-comercial users. I still don't agree with what they did, but I don't know how much we can do about it. I guess it all really depends on what the EULA says and how enforcable it is.
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It looks like it's definately worth a try. I just have one question. [Is it possible|How difficult is it] to switch between Litestep and Explorer? Can you choose at boot time? What sort of problems might I expect?
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Spot on, except for one thing. You don't have to run X on Linux, you do have to run explorer.exe on Windows.
Well, not quite true. You have to run wm.exe and a couple others, but not explorer.exe. You can run progman.exe if you like in place of explorer.exe. I'd like to see a nice drop in replacement of explorer.exe for Windows. A light, fast 32-bit interface would be nice.
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I don't even look at the polls anymore. They look more like a marketing survey than anything else. I'd like to know how much of the gathered information is kept and for what purposes.
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I can't see the sense in clustering Windows. The GUI and other parts of the system add a lot of unnecessary overhead. If MS wrote a clustering OS from the ground up, it'd be worth considering. Every job has it's tool, and IMHO Windows in it's current state is a hammer trying to remove a screw; use all the hammers you want, it won't get the screw any looser.
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I want to be able to sort posts by funny, insightful etc.
To see funny (or whichever you want) posts, go into your preferences and give a +6 bonus to comments rated funny and -6 penalty to all others (adjust as you see fit) then view comments rated 5. Crude but effective. I guess it's effective; I haven't tried it. =)
Microsoft is very successful but makes very bad products
Microsoft makes some very good products; they're just not as good as they could/should be. I love to hate them too, but give credit where credit is due. Despite their methods, Microsoft has built a very user-friendly, consistent, functional suite of products. They even have some really good ideas once in a while that they didn't "aquire".
well if you actually use these ads you should support outcomes based on relevance values, not user-irrelevant data such as contribution amount.
That's what the search results and the directory are for. They are what draw in the visitors and provide value. The advertisements are presented seperately from the results and are the source of income which make the ranked results possible. Like the previous poster said, that's how advertising works. If you want prominant placement of your ads, you pay a premium.
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Until a user can put a cd in the drive, push next a few times, and have a functioning program, Linux won't do well on the desktop.