How about turning off images in netscape? Stops all those nasty pictures.
Oh, turning off this filter is easy, but that's true for every other existing (and future) client side filters too. Even the most sophisticated filter is easily bypassed by booting another partition where it isn't installed.
When I switch from X to console and back I get mouse trouble in X. The first mouse movement after this typically makes it jump to a corner and execute some randome keypresses while doing this. Then it becomes normal until the next console switch.
Not so fun when it ends up pasting 60 lines into a root xterm. Trouble is avoidable by pressing a mouse butten 3-4 times before attempting any movement.
1. You can have special window decorations for child windows. You mean you can't do that without MDI? A problem in windows? 2. You can auto-arrange relevant windows in a variety of ways. Just as doable without MDI 3. This should be faster, at least as far as Z-ordering goes. No, it is necessarily slower, as you introduce an extra window (the one containing the others). One extra window means more work for the windowing system. 4. If you ever used framebuffer with split view, you love MDI and don't even know it. Huh?
All those features of MDI (except 4 that I didn't understand) is just as available without it too. So - no need. The problem with MDI is how I have to choose between clipped child windows or obscuring an area of the screen not used for that app (but perhaps used by some other). Both is really bad. I don't need a 'mother' window obscuring other things for me. If you get confused from seeing other stuff, maximize the window you work in. Fortunately, X has the means to make that mother window invisible - even if the programmers didn't intend it that way.:-)
Laptop: Why the hell don't browsers cache DNS lookups? There's some kind of DNS locking going on that causes it to whiteout.
Please don't bloat browsers by stupidly including an unnecessary DNS cache.
At work I have a fast name server - no need. At home I have a slow connection to the ISP's nameserver - so I run my own caching nameserver there. This speeds up not only the browser, but everything else that need DNS as well. (Yes - plenty of other stuff use DNS) No need for an in-browser DNS cache.
If they have to do it in order to support lame os'es for which no standalone nameserver software exist - at least make the DNS cache a separate product so it may be avoided completely.
From that, it follows that there is less customization that the car owner can do - it's much easier to adjust a carburettor butterfly than to reprogram a fuel-injector control system...
Reprogramming a fuel injector system doesn't have to be hard. You can buy a injection computer with little potmeters you can turn, or a rs-232 connection to your laptop pc. A good pc program or a manual on those pots and it is no worse than adjusting old-fashioned carburettor and timing.
The car industry don't put units like that in normal cars though. The usual injection computers is about as adjustable as a carburettor with the lid welded shut.:-(
I remember those days... My friend had Win95 Beta on his computer, and I remember saying "Wow! You can play TWO.avi files at the SAME TIME? Without the computer crashing?! Amazing!"
I could play 3 AVI's simultanously on a 486-66 before win95 was even released. I used os/2 at the time. And that was 320x200 AVI's, not those stamp-sized things windows had. Crashing the machine was never an issue. The reason for not playing 4 avi's was merely skipping.
Actually, there are a number of cases where police used information obtained through an unauthorized wiretap as evidence and claimed that it was from an informant
But could they do that with radar evidence? "The informant told us about illegal sex acts in a closed room..." Not likely. Doesn't the illegal evidence rules apply to the informant's evidence as well, when the informant couldn't possibly get the info in any legal way?
It mentioned that it sends radio waves through the walls. Would products like Tempest glass (www.tempestusa.com) be able to completely stop this little invasion of privacy?
Radio waves are easily stopped - put some sort of wire mesh or aluminium foil in your walls. In the case of wire mesh, use a mesh size smaller than the wavelength.
For the crooks out there: Get a receiver for the frequency they use. Now you know exactly where the radar-cop is.
Would that that were the case. Unfortunately, in many places in the US, it is not illegal to spy on people. A couple in MD had neighbors who spied on them by installing cameras in their house. The couple found out and tried to take their neighbors to court, but found that neither state nor federal law was broken, so they had no recourse.
Installing cameras in someone elses house is legal? Isn't that trespassing, possibly breaking in? At least they got some nice cameras...
Two super market chains in the So. Cal area used the following technique.
They post a "discount" price and a hyper (think over 200%) inflated "regular" price on different cuts of meat. The discount price is a few cents cheaper than what the regular price was before the market started playing tricks with prices.
How about signing the card as santa claus, or some slightly more probable bogus name?
Dell is also trying to nail people who try the windows refund approach, since they say if you want to return bundled software, their policy is that you have to return the entire system it came with.... all for a refund on a "free" product.
For those Belgians that have the time: Go buy a Dell machine. Then try the windows refund approach. Oh, I have to return the entire thing? Ok, lets do that then! And do you happen to know where the IBM shop is located?
A heap of returned machines looks bad in their statistics, even more than machines that weren't sold. (Market share cannot be determined perfectly you know.) And then there is the trouble with machines that have been unpacked, the packaging doesn't look new, they must check to see that nothing is missing, there are fingerprints and so on.
since black holes are exerting so much gravitational force, this would have to be an incredibly "rigid" city. i think impossible by any technological standard, since black holes would possess enough pull to tear apart planets and stars.
No problem. The key here is distance. A black holde will rip apart a star that gets too near. We are not ripped apart by distant black holes, and a city built on a ring/sphere around a black hole will do just fine with enough distance. A star-sized black hole would of course force a city-ring similiar in size to the solar system...
The US always is always attempting to take away the liberties of their own citizens under the pretext of 'protecting from terrorists', which they claim is one reason for the encryption restrictions.
I wonder - can they show as much as a single terrorist that used real encryption? (Not simple codes like "the show starts friday...") Many of them use guns though, which isn't prevented. So why bother with encryption?
Clearly unnecessary. There is an established convention that k means 1000, except when talking about bytes. Then it means 1024. And so on for M and G and T...
All we need here is a way to correct certain harddisk manufacturers. Using laws against bad advertising perhaps. Those that need to know that k=1024 in some cases have no problems with it. Those too ignorant to grasp it don't need to, and they couldn't care less either.
From the Athlon info at Tom's Hardware it looks like the processor has fewer pipeline quirks than the Pentium line, so K7-specific compiler tricks would be less important.
K7 optimization is still possible. Turn off all Intel-specific instruction order constraints. That will give the compiler more options for other optimizations that depend on reordering.
Sure - a dam or chemical factory accident may kill hundreds of thousands. But then it is over, cleaning up is trivial. Not so with plutonium, and that's why people worry so much.
Yes...but why would a computer that controls the location of a motor care what time or day it is?
The motor computer(s) may have a sequence of "raise this rod at time X, lower that rod at time Y" in order to accomodate changing load. Now an Y2K error reset the clock to 1900 and the motor computer figures "hey - it is 100 years and 0.003 sec till have to do this important stuff" And all the reduntant computers agree on that...
Hopefully my employers will never find out about this, but I think the only real solution is to put fewer cars on the roads. Mass transit will help do that, but here in the US you're considered some sort of second class citizen if you ride the bus to work
It is well known that slow traffic has higher throughput. Sure, cars going at half speed moves slower and take twice the time to get there. But you can fit more than twice as many cars on the same length of road that way, hence the increase in throughput. (Distance between cars is roughly proportional to braking distances, wich goes up as the square of the speed)
This makes a road largely self-regulating. You can put in more and more cars, traffic slows down but throughput increase enough to accomodate them. Unfortunately this breaks down as distance between cars approach zero. Cars aren't zero-length.
A friend of mine who has been to Europe tells me that they have similar systems there but they are much smaller and drivers don't have to slow down at all.
I don't know what size the american transponders are, the kind we use in Norway is about the size of two long fingers and is usually hidden behind the rearview mirror. The system has been tested up to at least 250 km/h (156 miles/h) which is way above the speed limits.
It is meant to work at any speed, but athorities tend to set a 60 km/h (37 miles/h) limit anyway because there are always some who have to stop and pay with coins and they don't want a mix of high and low speed traffic.:-(
It's interesting to note that after the blinkenlights ceased to have a purpose, people expected them anyway.
Cray understood this. They had some supercomputers with a panel of fake leds - the leds was controlled by a toy cpu to give the right "feel".
Lights are cool, more so if they aren't fake. The cpu is way too fast for driving leds, so I connect my leds to the disk system. One for every drive, and one for every host adapter/embedded controller.
I would settle for an implant that made the time display in the corner of my field of vision.
Why clutter up vision? If I could have an implanted clock, I'll have one that simply let me know what time it is by thinking of it. Similiar to how I can instantly know wheter I am sitting or standing. No reason for going the long route via the vision system, with the possibilities for misreading and the need for interpretation of what I see.
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How about turning off images in netscape? Stops all those nasty pictures.
Oh, turning off this filter is easy, but that's true for every other existing (and future) client side filters too. Even the most sophisticated filter is easily bypassed by booting another partition where it isn't installed.
When I switch from X to console and back I get mouse trouble in X. The first mouse movement after this typically makes it jump to a corner and execute some randome keypresses while doing this. Then it becomes normal until the next console switch.
Not so fun when it ends up pasting 60 lines into a root xterm. Trouble is avoidable by pressing a mouse butten 3-4 times before attempting any movement.
1. You can have special window decorations for child windows.
:-)
You mean you can't do that without MDI? A problem in windows?
2. You can auto-arrange relevant windows in a variety of ways.
Just as doable without MDI
3. This should be faster, at least as far as Z-ordering goes.
No, it is necessarily slower, as you introduce an extra window (the one containing the others). One extra window means more work for the windowing system.
4. If you ever used framebuffer with split view, you love MDI and don't even know it.
Huh?
All those features of MDI (except 4 that I didn't understand) is just as available without it too.
So - no need. The problem with MDI is how I have to choose between clipped child windows or obscuring an area of the screen not used for that app (but perhaps used by some other).
Both is really bad. I don't need a 'mother' window obscuring other things for me. If you get confused from seeing other stuff, maximize the window you work in. Fortunately, X has the means to make that mother window invisible - even if the programmers didn't intend it that way.
Laptop: Why the hell don't browsers cache DNS lookups? There's some kind of DNS locking going on that causes it to whiteout.
Please don't bloat browsers by stupidly including an unnecessary DNS cache.
At work I have a fast name server - no need.
At home I have a slow connection to the ISP's nameserver - so I run my own caching nameserver there. This speeds up not only the browser, but everything else that need DNS as well. (Yes - plenty of other stuff use DNS) No need for an
in-browser DNS cache.
If they have to do it in order to support lame os'es for which no standalone nameserver software exist - at least make the DNS cache a separate product so it may be avoided completely.
Perfect server: Dual Celeron - 128 meg dimm - Linux - cheap case - 3com 3c905b - (2) 20 gig ide drives, mirrored..... cheap and VERY functional
Wow. You just described the machine I am building, except that I use scsi drives.
From that, it follows that there is less customization that the car owner can do - it's much easier to adjust a carburettor butterfly than to reprogram a fuel-injector control system...
:-(
Reprogramming a fuel injector system doesn't have to be hard. You can buy a injection computer with little potmeters you can turn, or a rs-232 connection to your laptop pc. A good pc program or a manual on those pots and it is no worse than adjusting old-fashioned carburettor and timing.
The car industry don't put units like that in normal cars though. The usual injection computers is about as adjustable as a carburettor with the lid welded shut.
I remember those days... My friend had Win95 Beta on his computer, and I remember saying "Wow! You can play TWO .avi files at the SAME TIME? Without the computer crashing?! Amazing!"
I could play 3 AVI's simultanously on a 486-66 before win95 was even released. I used os/2 at the time. And that was 320x200 AVI's, not those stamp-sized things windows had. Crashing the machine was never an issue. The reason for not playing 4 avi's was merely skipping.
Actually, there are a number of cases where police used information obtained through an unauthorized wiretap as evidence and claimed that it was from an informant
But could they do that with radar evidence?
"The informant told us about illegal sex acts in a closed room..." Not likely. Doesn't the illegal evidence rules apply to the informant's evidence as well, when the informant couldn't possibly get the info in any legal way?
It mentioned that it sends radio waves through the walls. Would products like Tempest glass (www.tempestusa.com) be able to completely stop this little invasion of privacy?
Radio waves are easily stopped - put some sort of wire mesh or aluminium foil in your walls. In the case of wire mesh, use a mesh size smaller than the wavelength.
For the crooks out there: Get a receiver for the frequency they use. Now you know exactly where the radar-cop is.
Would that that were the case. Unfortunately, in many places in the US, it is not illegal to spy on people. A couple in MD had neighbors who spied on them by installing cameras in their house. The couple found out and tried to take their neighbors to court, but found that neither state nor federal law was broken, so they had no recourse.
Installing cameras in someone elses house is legal? Isn't that trespassing, possibly breaking in? At least they got some nice cameras...
Two super market chains in the So. Cal area used the following technique.
They post a "discount" price and a hyper (think over 200%) inflated "regular" price on different cuts of meat. The discount price is a few cents cheaper than what the regular price was before the market started playing tricks with prices.
How about signing the card as santa claus, or some slightly more probable bogus name?
Dell is also trying to nail people who try the windows refund approach, since they say if you want to return bundled software, their policy is that you have to return the entire system it came with.... all for a refund on a "free" product.
For those Belgians that have the time: Go buy a Dell machine. Then try the windows refund approach. Oh, I have to return the entire thing? Ok, lets do that then! And do you happen to know where the IBM shop is located?
A heap of returned machines looks bad in their statistics, even more than machines that weren't sold. (Market share cannot be determined perfectly you know.) And then there is the trouble with machines that have been unpacked, the packaging doesn't look new, they must check to see that nothing is missing, there are fingerprints and so on.
since black holes are exerting so much gravitational force, this would have to be an incredibly "rigid" city. i think impossible by any technological standard, since black holes would possess enough pull to tear apart planets and stars.
No problem. The key here is distance. A black holde will rip apart a star that gets too near. We are not ripped apart by distant black holes, and a city built on a ring/sphere around a black hole will do just fine with enough distance. A star-sized black hole would of course force a city-ring similiar in size to the solar system...
The US always is always attempting to take away the liberties of their own citizens under the pretext of 'protecting from terrorists', which they claim is one reason for the encryption restrictions.
I wonder - can they show as much as a single terrorist that used real encryption? (Not simple codes like "the show starts friday...") Many of them use guns though, which isn't prevented. So why bother with encryption?
Clearly unnecessary. There is an established convention that k means 1000, except when talking about bytes. Then it means 1024. And so on for M and G and T...
All we need here is a way to correct certain harddisk manufacturers. Using laws against bad advertising perhaps. Those that need to know that k=1024 in some cases have no problems with it. Those too ignorant to grasp it don't need to, and they couldn't care less either.
From the Athlon info at Tom's Hardware it looks like the processor has fewer pipeline quirks than the Pentium line, so K7-specific compiler tricks would be less important.
K7 optimization is still possible. Turn off all Intel-specific instruction order constraints. That will give the compiler more options for other optimizations that depend on reordering.
I would email my state rep but she doesn't have an email address.
:-)
Use snail mail then.
Sure - a dam or chemical factory accident may kill hundreds of thousands. But then it is over, cleaning up is trivial. Not so with plutonium, and that's why people worry so much.
Yes...but why would a computer that controls the location of a motor care what time or day it is?
The motor computer(s) may have a sequence of
"raise this rod at time X, lower that rod at time Y" in order to accomodate changing load. Now an Y2K error reset the clock to 1900 and the motor computer figures "hey - it is 100 years and 0.003 sec till have to do this important stuff"
And all the reduntant computers agree on that...
Hopefully my employers will never find out about this, but I think the only real solution is to put fewer cars on the roads. Mass transit will help do that, but here in the US you're considered some sort of second class citizen if you ride the bus to work
Everybody on motorcycles! They use less space.
It is well known that slow traffic has higher throughput. Sure, cars going at half speed moves slower and take twice the time to get there. But you can fit more than twice as many cars on the same length of road that way, hence the increase in throughput. (Distance between cars is roughly proportional to braking distances, wich goes up as the square of the speed)
This makes a road largely self-regulating. You can put in more and more cars, traffic slows down but throughput increase enough to accomodate them. Unfortunately this breaks down as distance between cars approach zero. Cars aren't zero-length.
A friend of mine who has been to Europe tells me that they have similar systems there but they are much smaller and drivers don't have to slow down at all.
:-(
I don't know what size the american transponders are, the kind we use in Norway is about the size of two long fingers and is usually hidden behind the rearview mirror. The system has been tested up to at least 250 km/h (156 miles/h) which is way above the speed limits.
It is meant to work at any speed, but athorities tend to set a 60 km/h (37 miles/h) limit anyway because there are always some who have to stop and pay with coins and they don't want a mix of high and low speed traffic.
I can type fast and obscured enough so that noone can read, what Im typing.
:-)
I can rent a camcorder and single-step through your keystrokes.
It's interesting to note that after the blinkenlights ceased to have a purpose, people expected them anyway.
Cray understood this. They had some supercomputers with a panel of fake leds - the leds was controlled by a toy cpu to give the right "feel".
Lights are cool, more so if they aren't fake. The cpu is way too fast for driving leds, so I connect my leds to the disk system. One for every drive, and one for every host adapter/embedded controller.
I would settle for an implant that made the time display in the corner of my field of vision.
Why clutter up vision? If I could have an implanted clock, I'll have one that simply let me know what time it is by thinking of it. Similiar to how I can instantly know wheter I am sitting or standing. No reason for going the long route via the vision system, with the possibilities for misreading and the need for interpretation of what I see.