Strangely enough, it's no longer working for me in Firefox (2.0.0.1, WinXP); I think google may have fixed the problem. Whether it's a real fix or an obscuration I have no idea.
we were part of the solution the last time such REAL nasty people took over Europe with plans of conquering the rest of the world
"We"? I doubt that you were there, I know your president wasn't (he was born in 1946 (source)), and I very much doubt that any serving member of your government or armed forces were.
Past deeds by one set of people do not preclude (or excuse) present or future misdeeds by another group, even if they happen to live in the same geographic area.
Kids are very smart... and I believe they would have little trouble dealing with a modern, full-featured UI and OS.
My daughter is 7. From time to time, I let her use my PC (other times, I can't stop her...). In XP Pro, she's figured out how to:
* Log on using her mother's account (the password is trivial, it's her name) * Change her display picture * Change the password * Fire up Firefox and surf to a couple of her favourite sites (others she has to ask for help) * Send voice clips using Live Messenger
She worked out how to record herself singing on her mum's phone and change the tone for text messages to be that sound clip. She's changed the name and background image on one of the cordless house phones, something I didn't even know you could do (not that I've really played with them much, they're just phones...)
Kids are smarter than most adults give them credit for (strange, really, given they were all kids themselves once). Some kids are *much* smarter. I know it's a statistically insignificantly small sample size, but in my experience, kids are perfectly capable of using a modern UI.
However, given the low specs of the machine, it may well be that the machine isn't capable of presenting a full, modern UI (yes, yes, WindowMaker, fvwm, fluxbox, etc - I know. They're not what I mean by "full, modern UI".)
It works fine in my install of FF 2.0.0.1; you have to be logged in to gmail for it to work. Despite what it says in the summary, it also works in IE7 - in fact, it'll work in any browser that
* supports cookies * supports loading of resources from domains other than the one the currently-loaded page is hosted on * supports accessing those resources
but legislation to protect us from terrorists and pornographers can deal with that detail too.
There's a fatal flaw in your otherwise well thought-out FUD - legislators, politicians, CEOs, etc tend to be middle-aged or older. As such, they tend to have families, and a lot of them have grandchildren.
They're not going to pass any law that prevents them from creating or being sent pictures or home videos of their children and grandchildren. You can scaremonger and be as paranoid as you like, but it isn't going to happen.
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It took my copy of FF2 "a couple of seconds"* to render it first time round on my X2 4400+ once the page had fully loaded; subsequent loads showed the captcha more or less instantaneously, despite it being different each time.
By "no problems" I mean that it's right there in the page, and can be scraped out with relative ease. In fact, it's not really any harder than searching for the appropriate img tag, in either case you have to identify an enclosing block of text and pull out the relevant HTML fragment.
It might stop the odd kiddy when the script they found on an IRC channel can't handle it, but it's not going to stand up to anyone with even half a clue for very long. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an interesting idea, and might be a (very small) step in the right direction, if someone can strengthen it somehow; I'm just not convinced that it'll be possible.
the only way to find out for sure is to risk your (possibly multi-million dollar) project and see if it turns out OK
Yes, because as we all know, of all the types of people who use computers as part of their day to day work, programmers are the only ones who can possibly carry out similar work at home either as a hobby or for testing purposes. Man, I'm so glad I'm a programmer and not so hamstrung as to not be able to pursue my interests on my own time too.
Really? Firefox doesn't seem to have any problems downloading and processing it, and as I wasn't aware that Firefox or Gecko used voodoo magic, I'm going to assume that the same would be true of any purpose-written code...
It's a nice idea, but it's little more than a speed-bump at best. (And not a particularly high one, at that)
Which one of those doesn't pass the Acid2? Only IE.
Firefox 2.0.0.1 fails Acid 2 as well; I can't really comment for previous versions as I don't have them handy, but I know I've seen it fail in several of them and haven't seen or heard of it pass any of them. Firefox 3 passes, I believe, but that's in alpha and so irrelevant.
But hey, you're here to troll for Microsoft instead of contribute any facts to the discussion.
Perhaps you should check your own facts, lest you appear to be merely trolling against MS.
Well, I don't know how it reacts to a nail, but there might be solutions for this too, like having a device that can sense where these things are placed
Anything that can draw power from it would be suitable, as long as it informed the user that it was currently doing so; you wouldn't necessarily even need a special device for it. Eg hold your laptop/mp3 player up to the wall, move it around and wait for the "coupled to charger" light to go off.
history tells us that it will always end up being the richest and most powerful, who invariably get that way by being the most despotic.
Not invariably - a lot of rich people are rich because their parents were rich, not because they're self-made. It doesn't really change the point, though, as generally speaking people tend to look out for themselves and their own, and so if in a position to influence or even buy a law, will generally do so in such a way as to best suit themselves. They may not even do so consciously, perhaps believing that they're doing all that they can to help everyone, blind to the fact that they're mostly helping themselves.
Human rights for one requires the value of human rights for all. Otherwise, all rights are just granted by whatever dictator happens to be in charge at the moment.
I couldn't agree more, with the comment that it's not only dictators who strip away rights, or decide that they should apply selectively; both Blair and Bush are doing a fine job of that too. The real problem though is that the majority allows it to happen, as they believe their own rights to be being protected or even enhanced (eg "the right to be safe from terrorist attack")
It really depends what you intend to use the tech for. No, going from something drawing 500W to 1kW is not good. However, going from a 1W draw to 2W may well be worth it if the convenience factor is great enough, at least individually (on the scale of a society, it may still be less than desirable, of course).
I'd say about 1% of the population uses file sharing networks and maybe 2% of the population actually sees the problems with DRM. Now, that's a huge number of people, and a large percentage of the number of people interested in owning music or movies
I must be misreading that, or else you didn't write quite what you meant to - are you seriously suggesting that 2% of the population is a large percentage of the music/movie buying section of the population?
I don't know a single person who doesn't buy the odd CD or DVD now and again, yet I can count the number of people that I know who even care about DRM on the fingers of one hand. I have no idea of what sort of percentages we're talking about, but it wouldn't surprise me if "percentage of population interested in owning music or movies" was somewhere near 80% or even 90%; in any case, I simply can't believe that 2% isn't almost insignificant in comparison.
As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years due to various reasons.
My first comment is that Vista's release date (last time I checked) is around 30/1/2007; if it was originally scheduled for a 2003 release, that's not a delay of "over 5 years", it's 4 at most.
My second comment is that grammatically speaking, that sentence is awful (as is much of the rest of the summary). I know this is a technology site, not a literature one, but it'd be nice if we had *some* standards...
They even serialised The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I don't read The Daily Hate, and while I'm (clearly!) biased I think it depends on how they serialised it. If the nature of the text was made clear, and it was being presented so as to better critique it, then that's fine.
Given that it's the Hate, though, I doubt if it was done like that...
They aren't there to be a news source. They are there to entertain and scare the masses.
No, they're there to make money, through advertising and sales. The way they do that is by pandering to the lowest common denominator and especially the mob mentality, hence all of the self-righteous campaigning and muck slinging, celebrity gossip, and so on.
None of the tabloids are worth the paper they're printed on, imho; at best they're insipid. Don't forget, though, that most (all?) of the broadsheets have either switched to a tabloid (physical) format, or produce editions in both formats. Don't dismiss a paper based solely on its size and shape...
I notice you said "almost all" - so you can in fact buy a PC without Windows. If that's somehow not an option, you can install an alternative OS over the top; you've still *paid* for Windows, but you're not being forced to *use* it.
if you want to do business with the government, you use Office
I can't comment on the truth of that with regards to the US government (which I assume is the one you're talking about), but it's certainly not the case for the UK government. I work with them every day (my current client is (part of) the UK's Home Office) and I am in no way forced to use anything MS; in fact, the only software-related stipulations in the contract were that we use WebLogic, Java, Oracle, SiteMinder and Solaris. Yes, we get documents in Word format, but OpenOffice works perfectly well.
I still fail to see how Microsoft are forcing me to use anything.
It isn't meant to be a list of 100 brand new things that were discovered, invented or otherwise became part of the body of human knowledge over the last 12 months. It's a list of interesting things that the author(s) found out about over the last 12 months.
The fact that you, I or anyone else already knew any given fact is irrelevant, and you've entirely missed the point of the article.
This isn't "100 things no-one knew last year", it's "100 things we didn't know last year". The "we" doesn't refer to the human race, it refers at the very most to "the average person in the street", and quite possibly only to the person(s) who pick the things that go in the articles.
This isn't meant to be a list of 100 new discoveries, so can everyone stop commenting on it as though it is?
I wish someone would use all this MMOG press hype to find out how to make me like work more.
Work is just work - it's *you*, sat at *your* desk, in *your* office, in *your* world, doing *your* job.
WoW (and any other game) is different - it's *you*, being *someone/thing else*, doing *something else*, in a *different* world.
It's an escape. Me, I'd love to be living in an Elite/Freelancer/Eve/X kind of universe, travelling through space, seeing the universe, trading, fighting, having adventures. Of course if I really was, I'd probably be scared shitless most of the time, longing for a quiet life on a nice safe planet somewhere, just like I have now...
In general, an LCD TV is 2x more energy efficient than a CRT.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've gone from a 28" CRT TV to a 40" LCD TV; while I'm sure it's more efficient, I'd be very surprised if my overall power usage has decreased because of it.
Or just put it in your pocket; seems to do a good job of keeping my wallet closed.
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I don't remember Gary being in the Amiga either; of course, it's been a good few years (more than I care to remember, to be honest) since my Amiga500 was put out to pasture, so I could be wrong.
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Strangely enough, it's no longer working for me in Firefox (2.0.0.1, WinXP); I think google may have fixed the problem. Whether it's a real fix or an obscuration I have no idea.
we were part of the solution the last time such REAL nasty people took over Europe with plans of conquering the rest of the world
"We"? I doubt that you were there, I know your president wasn't (he was born in 1946 (source)), and I very much doubt that any serving member of your government or armed forces were.
Past deeds by one set of people do not preclude (or excuse) present or future misdeeds by another group, even if they happen to live in the same geographic area.
Kids are very smart... and I believe they would have little trouble dealing with a modern, full-featured UI and OS.
My daughter is 7. From time to time, I let her use my PC (other times, I can't stop her...). In XP Pro, she's figured out how to:
* Log on using her mother's account (the password is trivial, it's her name)
* Change her display picture
* Change the password
* Fire up Firefox and surf to a couple of her favourite sites (others she has to ask for help)
* Send voice clips using Live Messenger
She worked out how to record herself singing on her mum's phone and change the tone for text messages to be that sound clip. She's changed the name and background image on one of the cordless house phones, something I didn't even know you could do (not that I've really played with them much, they're just phones...)
Kids are smarter than most adults give them credit for (strange, really, given they were all kids themselves once). Some kids are *much* smarter. I know it's a statistically insignificantly small sample size, but in my experience, kids are perfectly capable of using a modern UI.
However, given the low specs of the machine, it may well be that the machine isn't capable of presenting a full, modern UI (yes, yes, WindowMaker, fvwm, fluxbox, etc - I know. They're not what I mean by "full, modern UI".)
Is that it leads to dupes.
It works fine in my install of FF 2.0.0.1; you have to be logged in to gmail for it to work. Despite what it says in the summary, it also works in IE7 - in fact, it'll work in any browser that
* supports cookies
* supports loading of resources from domains other than the one the currently-loaded page is hosted on
* supports accessing those resources
ie pretty much all (modern) browsers.
but legislation to protect us from terrorists and pornographers can deal with that detail too.
There's a fatal flaw in your otherwise well thought-out FUD - legislators, politicians, CEOs, etc tend to be middle-aged or older. As such, they tend to have families, and a lot of them have grandchildren.
They're not going to pass any law that prevents them from creating or being sent pictures or home videos of their children and grandchildren. You can scaremonger and be as paranoid as you like, but it isn't going to happen.
It took my copy of FF2 "a couple of seconds"* to render it first time round on my X2 4400+ once the page had fully loaded; subsequent loads showed the captcha more or less instantaneously, despite it being different each time.
By "no problems" I mean that it's right there in the page, and can be scraped out with relative ease. In fact, it's not really any harder than searching for the appropriate img tag, in either case you have to identify an enclosing block of text and pull out the relevant HTML fragment.
It might stop the odd kiddy when the script they found on an IRC channel can't handle it, but it's not going to stand up to anyone with even half a clue for very long. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an interesting idea, and might be a (very small) step in the right direction, if someone can strengthen it somehow; I'm just not convinced that it'll be possible.
the only way to find out for sure is to risk your (possibly multi-million dollar) project and see if it turns out OK
Yes, because as we all know, of all the types of people who use computers as part of their day to day work, programmers are the only ones who can possibly carry out similar work at home either as a hobby or for testing purposes. Man, I'm so glad I'm a programmer and not so hamstrung as to not be able to pursue my interests on my own time too.
Really? Firefox doesn't seem to have any problems downloading and processing it, and as I wasn't aware that Firefox or Gecko used voodoo magic, I'm going to assume that the same would be true of any purpose-written code...
It's a nice idea, but it's little more than a speed-bump at best. (And not a particularly high one, at that)
Which one of those doesn't pass the Acid2? Only IE.
Firefox 2.0.0.1 fails Acid 2 as well; I can't really comment for previous versions as I don't have them handy, but I know I've seen it fail in several of them and haven't seen or heard of it pass any of them. Firefox 3 passes, I believe, but that's in alpha and so irrelevant.
But hey, you're here to troll for Microsoft instead of contribute any facts to the discussion.
Perhaps you should check your own facts, lest you appear to be merely trolling against MS.
Well, I don't know how it reacts to a nail, but there might be solutions for this too, like having a device that can sense where these things are placed
Anything that can draw power from it would be suitable, as long as it informed the user that it was currently doing so; you wouldn't necessarily even need a special device for it. Eg hold your laptop/mp3 player up to the wall, move it around and wait for the "coupled to charger" light to go off.
history tells us that it will always end up being the richest and most powerful, who invariably get that way by being the most despotic.
Not invariably - a lot of rich people are rich because their parents were rich, not because they're self-made. It doesn't really change the point, though, as generally speaking people tend to look out for themselves and their own, and so if in a position to influence or even buy a law, will generally do so in such a way as to best suit themselves. They may not even do so consciously, perhaps believing that they're doing all that they can to help everyone, blind to the fact that they're mostly helping themselves.
Human rights for one requires the value of human rights for all. Otherwise, all rights are just granted by whatever dictator happens to be in charge at the moment.
I couldn't agree more, with the comment that it's not only dictators who strip away rights, or decide that they should apply selectively; both Blair and Bush are doing a fine job of that too. The real problem though is that the majority allows it to happen, as they believe their own rights to be being protected or even enhanced (eg "the right to be safe from terrorist attack")
It really depends what you intend to use the tech for. No, going from something drawing 500W to 1kW is not good. However, going from a 1W draw to 2W may well be worth it if the convenience factor is great enough, at least individually (on the scale of a society, it may still be less than desirable, of course).
I'd say about 1% of the population uses file sharing networks and maybe 2% of the population actually sees the problems with DRM. Now, that's a huge number of people, and a large percentage of the number of people interested in owning music or movies
I must be misreading that, or else you didn't write quite what you meant to - are you seriously suggesting that 2% of the population is a large percentage of the music/movie buying section of the population?
I don't know a single person who doesn't buy the odd CD or DVD now and again, yet I can count the number of people that I know who even care about DRM on the fingers of one hand. I have no idea of what sort of percentages we're talking about, but it wouldn't surprise me if "percentage of population interested in owning music or movies" was somewhere near 80% or even 90%; in any case, I simply can't believe that 2% isn't almost insignificant in comparison.
As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years due to various reasons.
My first comment is that Vista's release date (last time I checked) is around 30/1/2007; if it was originally scheduled for a 2003 release, that's not a delay of "over 5 years", it's 4 at most.
My second comment is that grammatically speaking, that sentence is awful (as is much of the rest of the summary). I know this is a technology site, not a literature one, but it'd be nice if we had *some* standards...
They even serialised The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I don't read The Daily Hate, and while I'm (clearly!) biased I think it depends on how they serialised it. If the nature of the text was made clear, and it was being presented so as to better critique it, then that's fine.
Given that it's the Hate, though, I doubt if it was done like that...
They aren't there to be a news source. They are there to entertain and scare the masses.
No, they're there to make money, through advertising and sales. The way they do that is by pandering to the lowest common denominator and especially the mob mentality, hence all of the self-righteous campaigning and muck slinging, celebrity gossip, and so on.
None of the tabloids are worth the paper they're printed on, imho; at best they're insipid. Don't forget, though, that most (all?) of the broadsheets have either switched to a tabloid (physical) format, or produce editions in both formats. Don't dismiss a paper based solely on its size and shape...
windows is prebundled with almost all PCs today
I notice you said "almost all" - so you can in fact buy a PC without Windows. If that's somehow not an option, you can install an alternative OS over the top; you've still *paid* for Windows, but you're not being forced to *use* it.
if you want to do business with the government, you use Office
I can't comment on the truth of that with regards to the US government (which I assume is the one you're talking about), but it's certainly not the case for the UK government. I work with them every day (my current client is (part of) the UK's Home Office) and I am in no way forced to use anything MS; in fact, the only software-related stipulations in the contract were that we use WebLogic, Java, Oracle, SiteMinder and Solaris. Yes, we get documents in Word format, but OpenOffice works perfectly well.
I still fail to see how Microsoft are forcing me to use anything.
When Google can release crap and force you to use it, then they'll have a monopoly.
By that measure, MS doesn't have a monopoly either, as they have no way of forcing me to use any of their products.
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Yes - how dare he have an opinion on something while there are still bugs in a project he started!
They say that last year we didn't know that...
What makes you think that that "we" includes you?
It isn't meant to be a list of 100 brand new things that were discovered, invented or otherwise became part of the body of human knowledge over the last 12 months. It's a list of interesting things that the author(s) found out about over the last 12 months.
The fact that you, I or anyone else already knew any given fact is irrelevant, and you've entirely missed the point of the article.
This isn't "100 things no-one knew last year", it's "100 things we didn't know last year". The "we" doesn't refer to the human race, it refers at the very most to "the average person in the street", and quite possibly only to the person(s) who pick the things that go in the articles.
This isn't meant to be a list of 100 new discoveries, so can everyone stop commenting on it as though it is?
I wish someone would use all this MMOG press hype to find out how to make me like work more.
Work is just work - it's *you*, sat at *your* desk, in *your* office, in *your* world, doing *your* job.
WoW (and any other game) is different - it's *you*, being *someone/thing else*, doing *something else*, in a *different* world.
It's an escape. Me, I'd love to be living in an Elite/Freelancer/Eve/X kind of universe, travelling through space, seeing the universe, trading, fighting, having adventures. Of course if I really was, I'd probably be scared shitless most of the time, longing for a quiet life on a nice safe planet somewhere, just like I have now...
In general, an LCD TV is 2x more energy efficient than a CRT.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've gone from a 28" CRT TV to a 40" LCD TV; while I'm sure it's more efficient, I'd be very surprised if my overall power usage has decreased because of it.
Or just put it in your pocket; seems to do a good job of keeping my wallet closed.
I don't remember Gary being in the Amiga either; of course, it's been a good few years (more than I care to remember, to be honest) since my Amiga500 was put out to pasture, so I could be wrong.