Long answer: Sure, if you make sure you use a new profile and never run Firefox 2.0 beta2 using your old profile.
If you don't understand what I just said, then stick with "no." Portable versions of Firefox 2.0beta2 may coexist as long as they don't use the standard profile directory. Unless you're absolutely sure that your existing profile won't be touched, it's best to assume not to.
In any case, if you're going to try out Firefox 2.0beta2, you should definitely make a backup of your profile.
Ah, another new poster discovers that Slashdot's "HTML formatted" doesn't add <br>s. You want "Plain Old Text" which, strangely enough, allows normal HTML formatting but keeps your paragraphs.:)
You also might want to mention that you're the person who posted the video as well, for those who don't bother comparing your username to the video poster's user name.
But anyway, with the paragraphs readded:
Cameras - this doesn't affect any system that digitizes or montors them . All we need was one more camera. As for the security aspect - the CG and LM maintain there is no issue. As such I cannot compromise a non-problem. The boast have been this way for almost a year. if there were issues the CG had plenty of time to correct them. Which is better not fixing this and having that secusrity isue or fixing this with the video (the video was alast resort after 3 years - see below)? (Now the CG has to use a watch stander - they are more secure)
FLIR was an example - it might also have been fixed by adding a heater. See we didn't get the environmental requirements until after design review and most of the equip was bought (which is nuts - this is also the time I came on the program ) The FLIR was the first system we looked at. When I told management there was an issue with the FLIR they directed us to stop looking in to the rest. So. ..my worry is that there are more issues (and not just temp)
Cables - EVERY SINGLE cable on each boat that was supposed to be shielded is not. Almost 100 cables on each boat. We actually removed the shielded cable for the old systems we were putting back in. I have a TEMPEST background. I also talked to experts in Lockheed as well as the company that certs Air Force One. All agree that under these conditions it is very improbable that the instrumented test would pass. Also - the IG asked for test data months ago - and hasn't gotten it. They also asked to independently check the boats. The CG won't comply. Don't you think they would if the test actually passed?
As for the way I did this. I spent 3 years - went through 3 LM ethics investigations, coporate legal, the CEO and Board of Directors. I went to the Commandant of the CG, the CO of the boats, the Navy, GAO, NSA etc. Finally the DHS IG agreed to investigate. They have told me all of my claims look to be legitimate. However they can't continue because the CG isn't cooperating. I then went to the Homeland Security Committee and asked them to push the CG - they refused. Meanwhile these boats are operating. Also - all the other gov't orgs who use those classified circuits are at risk.
My advice to some of you - since you are engineers. Don't assume or make judgements until you know what you are talking about. Feel free to email me - imispgh@yahoo.com
I haven't heard about those two games. The only two games I'm really interested in are sequels to games I enjoyed on the PS2. (Armored Core is underrated, IMHO.)
That's mostly because I haven't really been following the PS3 releases after they announced the price tag. While I probably can afford it, I'm not willing to pay the launch price. If I'm going to be getting a PS3, it'll be after the first price cut. (Just like my PS2 and PSX purchases.) Since I'm not really interested in the PS3, I haven't been following the games.
I figure I'll be more interested in the PS3 scene in about a year, see what it's like then.
I'm 100x more excited about the near-future of the PlayStation 2. Okami and FFXII are going to be lots of fun to get into.
Be sure to post a review of FFXII. At best I'm in a "wait-and-see" mood after playing the demo, and at worst not willing to consider it. The gameplay was fairly unexciting in the demo, and the story trailer made the story sound incredibly clichéd and lame. (Although this may also be tainted by the fact that I hated FFTA, and it's set in the same world.)
(OK, this time multiple previews. Can't wait to see what I goofed up on submit!)
How often do you actually swing the sword in the Zelda games? You're not constantly swinging the thing, assuming you're any good. You're going to be doing a few flicks every once in a while.
Zelda is more about solving puzzles than beating up enemies. I somehow doubt that you'll find flicking the Wiimote every couple of minutes to be a big deal.
Check the pilot episode. The captured Air Force woman is shown to be nude (although we never see anything "naughty") and later Daniel Jackson's wife (Charee? Sharee? I dunno how it's spelled) is shown completely nude when she gets implanted with the Gou'ald.
Other than that, I can't remember any full nudity. I remember being a little shocked when watching the pilot episode on DVD - I wasn't really expecting anything like that. It was rather gratuitous.
It doesn't hide it at all. iTunes by default automatically unmounts an iPod when it's done syncing it. As far as Windows is concerned, an iPod is simply a USB "mass storage" device and it can be accessed like one. That's how iTunes syncs the music to the iPod, it copies it over using normal file access.
When an iPod is plugged in, you can click the iPod icon in the lower right corner of iTunes to bring up the iPod options dialog. On the Music tab there's a checkbox that reads "enable disk use." With it checked, iTunes won't automatically unmount the iPod and you can use it like any other USB hard drive.
In fact, this is an advertised feature of the iPod. You can copy text files over to the Notes directory to view them from the iPod. It's not exactly hidden. The only reason it's not enabled by default is because this means you can't just unplug the iPod after it's done syncing, you have to manually unmount it either by "ejecting" it or using the "safely remove hardware" option under Windows.
The tests I looked at (admittably a very small subset) were all written to use Strict Mode. At least, they should have used the IE Strict Mode by including the HTML 4.01 Strict DOCTYPE.
I'll have to double-check at some point, but I thought they were using Strict Mode.
It would have been really nice of the W3C to mention that somewhere in the test suite. Unfortunately they neglect to mention that in the test suite, on the test suite "home page," and in the test suite documentation. They even neglect to offer a full download of the suite (you can use wget for that).
Even their own test suite documentation neglects to mention the font requirement. In fact, the only place they mention it is on the test authoring guidelines which is not something I'd expect to read when just running tests.
If I get the time, I think I'll try and bundle the test suite up WITH the Ahem font and try and run it again. Maybe even use the CSS font-embedding extension so you don't actually need to install the font.
But I can see why people may not like that test suite. Without a "full suite download" it's a bit of a pain to use.
Al Gore created (not invented) the Internet, not the Web. This is the birthday of the Web, which Tim Berners-Lee created.
(The actual Al Gore quote is something along the lines of "I took the initiative to create the Internet," nothing about inventing. Specifically.)
On a slightly serious note, this is the birthday of the Web: HTML delivered over HTTP, I'd assume. Not the Internet, which can be considered to have a birthday of anywhere between 1982 and 1989 depending on your definition.
But then again, so can the web. Looking over the W3C's timeline you can get several different "birthdays" for the WWW. Another good one might be March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first HTML/HTTP proposal.
The August 6th, 1991 date is the first date that an actual browser was made available to the public and could be thought of as the "birth date" as well.
His inserts were removed because they were poorly done. They were obvious vandalism.
If he'd done a better job of them, more subtle, they likely wouldn't have been noticed. He removed the entire bit on Oregon and replaced it with one sentence. (diff of the edit)
He simply added a sentence to the George Washington article. (diff of the edit)
If, instead, he had done something more subtle, like changing the Oregon section to read:
When it seems even remotely relevant, Colbert accuses the Pacific Northwest state of Oregon of being "the Portugal of Idaho" and displays a graphic of Oregon decorated by the green and red Portugese flag. Colbert sympathizes with California state because it is already in danger of sliding into the ocean, as Portugal's southern border is the Atlantic Ocean. During the April 6th 2006 episode Colbert also indicated that Oregon was "Washington's Spain", when interviewing Rep. Darlene Hooley of Oregon's 5th district for "Better Know a District."
Backslashes in a.properties file have to be escaped with (guess what?) a backslash.
So it, unfortunately, solves nothing.
If you don't mind XML, you can use the XML properties format, but you're still adding a lot of extra code just so you don't have to deal with escape characters. There's, unfortunately, no good solution in Java. (There are no raw strings in Java.)
The news with FFXI is that the Japanese government is looking into gold farming. (That's the link from the Slashdot summary, you might want to read the entire thing.)
Plus, if you actually read the articles, they mention that the banning activity has greatly increased this month.
So, yes, it's news: MMORPG companies are banning more accounts over gold selling activies than they have been.
The problem with that is that Microsoft makes it difficult to install two different versions of IE on the same machine. It's possible, but not exactly easy.
Since I currently need to support IE 6, I haven't bothered trying IE 7. At some point I'm going to have to figure out how to run both IE 6 and IE 7 at the same time, but for now, I'm just not worrying about IE 7.
The other problem with IE 7 that I hope is fixed is that IE 7 Beta 2 broken HTML help. That forced me to uninstall it (on my home machine) since I happen to need to read the documentation for various apps that comes in an HTML help file.
See, I said they made it hard to spell out the URL, and then proved it... Yeah...
No, I just can't count and left it out. As for the closing slash, no one would bother today, but at the start of the "internet boom" before people really understood the web and URLs, people would include it. Generally they'd just be reading off a script that included the full URL with the closing slash - so they'd say it, because it was on the paper.
It didn't take long for people to shorten it down to just the domain name, but I still remember radio ads where the spokesperson would read out the entire URL. "Log on to our website at http://www.example.com/ for more information!"
OK, enough people seem to be confused about this, so I'm just going to try and clear this up.
Slashback - an update to (usually several) existing stories.
Backslash - an aggregate of highly modded comments from a previous story.
Yes, the two names are confusing: this is likely done on purpose. Slashdot was named Slashdot explicitly to make it hard to spell out the URL. (If you're going to try to spell out the full URL, it would sound like: Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash dot dot org slash. This made more sense in 1998 when Slashdot was named and most radio ads would spell out the entire URL.)
But, yeah, Backslash is kinda lame. In many web forums, it'd likely be called "necroposting" - attempting to resurrect a discussion that had mostly completed by posting something vague and useless to it, causing it to move to the top of the topic list. There's really nothing to add to Backslash stories in the comments, since the story just happened, so they're usually fairly vague and useless. They are, in essense, intentional dupes.
And, yes, I know how to disable them. I'm considering it, but I'm still holding out hope (for some reason) that they may eventually become some what more interesting.
Of course they said that. They'd be stupid not to say that.
And it's probably true - there currently are no plans for cutting the price, considering that the launch date of the PS3 isn't quite set in stone yet. Once Sony has a specific date for the PS3 launch, MS will likely start plans to cut the XBox360 price just after the PS3 launch.
The reason why Microsoft is saying that they have no plans is because if they did admit that they plan on dropping the price, they'd lose sales at the higher price. Think about it: if Microsoft gave an answer saying the price will be cut "at some point in the future" would you want to buy an XBox360 right now? Or would you rather wait until the price was cut?
If they announced that they were planning on cutting the price they'd lose sales to people waiting for the price cut. So instead they say that they have "no plans" to cut the price (not that they won't, just that there are no plans, read the quote carefully).
Microsoft would be insane not to cut the price right around the PS3 launch. They're likely going to do it shortly after the PS3 launches, so that they may be able to steal some of the spotlight from Sony's PS3 launch.
Actually, it's more ironic than that, because Sony (well, Ken Kutaragi, head of the division that makes the PS3) has in the past said they're planning on upgrading the PS3 throughout its lifecycle. See, since it's really a computer, apparently he thinks they can get away with announcing "upgraded" versions. So by 2016, the PS4 might finally replace the PS3-OSR2-SP5 or something.
The actual quote is:
In the PC world, specifications rarely last more than two years. You need to update them. I believe the PC is always evolving. I think that the time may come that the 60GB HDD would become too small or the RAM to low. Such issues are numerous.
So, yeah, maybe a "10-year lifecycle" isn't out of the question, if they keep on churning out new consoles and call 'em PS3s anyway.
Plus, by continuously upgrading specs, they can ensure that the PS3 will continue to cost $600 for years! ($500 for the previous iteration.)
What's the copy protection like?
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I kinda wish game reviewers would start including this information in the review. It sounds like a neat game, but I have one very simple requirement before I'll buy another PC game:
It must run without the CD in the drive.
I wish reviewers would include information on how the copy protection is on these games. If I had known that WarCraft III would find a way to kill my CD drivers, I'd never have bought it. (Seriously, I had to reinstall Windows to regain access to my CD drives.) I'm sick of putting up with video games that require the CD for no good reason, and am simply furious at the games that attempt to install driver-level code.
Can Slashdot reviews please start containing information on how the game handles copy protection? I'm willing to put up with registration keys and online activation. I'm not willing to put up with having to have the CD in the drive just to run the game.
Prey sounds like it's a game I might be interested in playing - assuming that the copy protection isn't too severe.
I agree, both Kerry and Bush were bad for America. Which is why, when I voted, I didn't vote for either of them, I voted for a third party.
Which got something like a fraction of a percent of the total vote, but still... If enough people who disagree with both main-party canidates vote for third parties, eventually it might have a very small difference.
And it continued, she added, with something like this: "CC had the sad occasion to read interrogation transcripts in an assignment that should not be made public. And, let's just say, European lives were not saved."
That's the violation of "need to know" - she released information about classified interrogation transcripts to people without the need to know - a clear violation of security protocols.
Giving her opinion on waterboarding is one thing, talking about classified information without following proper proceedures is another.
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Short answer: no.
Long answer: Sure, if you make sure you use a new profile and never run Firefox 2.0 beta2 using your old profile.
If you don't understand what I just said, then stick with "no." Portable versions of Firefox 2.0beta2 may coexist as long as they don't use the standard profile directory. Unless you're absolutely sure that your existing profile won't be touched, it's best to assume not to.
In any case, if you're going to try out Firefox 2.0beta2, you should definitely make a backup of your profile.
Ah, another new poster discovers that Slashdot's "HTML formatted" doesn't add <br>s. You want "Plain Old Text" which, strangely enough, allows normal HTML formatting but keeps your paragraphs.:)
You also might want to mention that you're the person who posted the video as well, for those who don't bother comparing your username to the video poster's user name.
But anyway, with the paragraphs readded:
I haven't heard about those two games. The only two games I'm really interested in are sequels to games I enjoyed on the PS2. (Armored Core is underrated, IMHO.)
That's mostly because I haven't really been following the PS3 releases after they announced the price tag. While I probably can afford it, I'm not willing to pay the launch price. If I'm going to be getting a PS3, it'll be after the first price cut. (Just like my PS2 and PSX purchases.) Since I'm not really interested in the PS3, I haven't been following the games.
I figure I'll be more interested in the PS3 scene in about a year, see what it's like then.
Be sure to post a review of FFXII. At best I'm in a "wait-and-see" mood after playing the demo, and at worst not willing to consider it. The gameplay was fairly unexciting in the demo, and the story trailer made the story sound incredibly clichéd and lame. (Although this may also be tainted by the fact that I hated FFTA, and it's set in the same world.)
(OK, this time multiple previews. Can't wait to see what I goofed up on submit!)
You know, even after preveiwing, I neglected to check the title. That should be "and where are the 27?" - there doesn't appear to be a list.
Blah. I'll blame it on having skipped my morning coffee.
After a bit of digging, I found a larger list of titles than the two Reuters mentioned. Apparently the full list isn't available?
Only two I'm interested in the entire list are DMC4 and AC4. Even so, neither are enough to make me interested in blowing $600.
How often do you actually swing the sword in the Zelda games? You're not constantly swinging the thing, assuming you're any good. You're going to be doing a few flicks every once in a while.
Zelda is more about solving puzzles than beating up enemies. I somehow doubt that you'll find flicking the Wiimote every couple of minutes to be a big deal.
Check the pilot episode. The captured Air Force woman is shown to be nude (although we never see anything "naughty") and later Daniel Jackson's wife (Charee? Sharee? I dunno how it's spelled) is shown completely nude when she gets implanted with the Gou'ald.
Other than that, I can't remember any full nudity. I remember being a little shocked when watching the pilot episode on DVD - I wasn't really expecting anything like that. It was rather gratuitous.
Have friends? Ever wanted to take a save-game over to a friend's house?
You need the $600 PS3 for that. The $500 one is missing removable media slots (excluding the Blu-ray, of course).
It doesn't hide it at all. iTunes by default automatically unmounts an iPod when it's done syncing it. As far as Windows is concerned, an iPod is simply a USB "mass storage" device and it can be accessed like one. That's how iTunes syncs the music to the iPod, it copies it over using normal file access.
When an iPod is plugged in, you can click the iPod icon in the lower right corner of iTunes to bring up the iPod options dialog. On the Music tab there's a checkbox that reads "enable disk use." With it checked, iTunes won't automatically unmount the iPod and you can use it like any other USB hard drive.
In fact, this is an advertised feature of the iPod. You can copy text files over to the Notes directory to view them from the iPod. It's not exactly hidden. The only reason it's not enabled by default is because this means you can't just unplug the iPod after it's done syncing, you have to manually unmount it either by "ejecting" it or using the "safely remove hardware" option under Windows.
The tests I looked at (admittably a very small subset) were all written to use Strict Mode. At least, they should have used the IE Strict Mode by including the HTML 4.01 Strict DOCTYPE.
I'll have to double-check at some point, but I thought they were using Strict Mode.
It would have been really nice of the W3C to mention that somewhere in the test suite. Unfortunately they neglect to mention that in the test suite, on the test suite "home page," and in the test suite documentation. They even neglect to offer a full download of the suite (you can use wget for that).
Even their own test suite documentation neglects to mention the font requirement. In fact, the only place they mention it is on the test authoring guidelines which is not something I'd expect to read when just running tests.
If I get the time, I think I'll try and bundle the test suite up WITH the Ahem font and try and run it again. Maybe even use the CSS font-embedding extension so you don't actually need to install the font.
But I can see why people may not like that test suite. Without a "full suite download" it's a bit of a pain to use.
That's actually kinda neat. So far, of the seven tests I've run, Firefox 1.5.0.6 has passed one of them.
For the curious:
Some time when I have more time, I'll have to go through all of them and see how Firefox does.
Given that they managed to stop this attack without banning toothpaste on airplanes, I really don't see your point.
No-no-no-no-no. Both of you are wrong.
Al Gore created (not invented) the Internet, not the Web. This is the birthday of the Web, which Tim Berners-Lee created.
(The actual Al Gore quote is something along the lines of "I took the initiative to create the Internet," nothing about inventing. Specifically.)
On a slightly serious note, this is the birthday of the Web: HTML delivered over HTTP, I'd assume. Not the Internet, which can be considered to have a birthday of anywhere between 1982 and 1989 depending on your definition.
But then again, so can the web. Looking over the W3C's timeline you can get several different "birthdays" for the WWW. Another good one might be March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first HTML/HTTP proposal.
The August 6th, 1991 date is the first date that an actual browser was made available to the public and could be thought of as the "birth date" as well.
His inserts were removed because they were poorly done. They were obvious vandalism.
If he'd done a better job of them, more subtle, they likely wouldn't have been noticed. He removed the entire bit on Oregon and replaced it with one sentence. (diff of the edit)
He simply added a sentence to the George Washington article. (diff of the edit)
If, instead, he had done something more subtle, like changing the Oregon section to read:
I wonder how long it would take to revert that?
Backslashes in a .properties file have to be escaped with (guess what?) a backslash.
So it, unfortunately, solves nothing.
If you don't mind XML, you can use the XML properties format, but you're still adding a lot of extra code just so you don't have to deal with escape characters. There's, unfortunately, no good solution in Java. (There are no raw strings in Java.)
The news with FFXI is that the Japanese government is looking into gold farming. (That's the link from the Slashdot summary, you might want to read the entire thing.)
Plus, if you actually read the articles, they mention that the banning activity has greatly increased this month.
So, yes, it's news: MMORPG companies are banning more accounts over gold selling activies than they have been.
The problem with that is that Microsoft makes it difficult to install two different versions of IE on the same machine. It's possible, but not exactly easy.
Since I currently need to support IE 6, I haven't bothered trying IE 7. At some point I'm going to have to figure out how to run both IE 6 and IE 7 at the same time, but for now, I'm just not worrying about IE 7.
The other problem with IE 7 that I hope is fixed is that IE 7 Beta 2 broken HTML help. That forced me to uninstall it (on my home machine) since I happen to need to read the documentation for various apps that comes in an HTML help file.
See, I said they made it hard to spell out the URL, and then proved it... Yeah...
No, I just can't count and left it out. As for the closing slash, no one would bother today, but at the start of the "internet boom" before people really understood the web and URLs, people would include it. Generally they'd just be reading off a script that included the full URL with the closing slash - so they'd say it, because it was on the paper.
It didn't take long for people to shorten it down to just the domain name, but I still remember radio ads where the spokesperson would read out the entire URL. "Log on to our website at http://www.example.com/ for more information!"
OK, enough people seem to be confused about this, so I'm just going to try and clear this up.
Yes, the two names are confusing: this is likely done on purpose. Slashdot was named Slashdot explicitly to make it hard to spell out the URL. (If you're going to try to spell out the full URL, it would sound like: Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash dot dot org slash. This made more sense in 1998 when Slashdot was named and most radio ads would spell out the entire URL.)
But, yeah, Backslash is kinda lame. In many web forums, it'd likely be called "necroposting" - attempting to resurrect a discussion that had mostly completed by posting something vague and useless to it, causing it to move to the top of the topic list. There's really nothing to add to Backslash stories in the comments, since the story just happened, so they're usually fairly vague and useless. They are, in essense, intentional dupes.
And, yes, I know how to disable them. I'm considering it, but I'm still holding out hope (for some reason) that they may eventually become some what more interesting.
Of course they said that. They'd be stupid not to say that.
And it's probably true - there currently are no plans for cutting the price, considering that the launch date of the PS3 isn't quite set in stone yet. Once Sony has a specific date for the PS3 launch, MS will likely start plans to cut the XBox360 price just after the PS3 launch.
The reason why Microsoft is saying that they have no plans is because if they did admit that they plan on dropping the price, they'd lose sales at the higher price. Think about it: if Microsoft gave an answer saying the price will be cut "at some point in the future" would you want to buy an XBox360 right now? Or would you rather wait until the price was cut?
If they announced that they were planning on cutting the price they'd lose sales to people waiting for the price cut. So instead they say that they have "no plans" to cut the price (not that they won't, just that there are no plans, read the quote carefully).
Microsoft would be insane not to cut the price right around the PS3 launch. They're likely going to do it shortly after the PS3 launches, so that they may be able to steal some of the spotlight from Sony's PS3 launch.
Actually, it's more ironic than that, because Sony (well, Ken Kutaragi, head of the division that makes the PS3) has in the past said they're planning on upgrading the PS3 throughout its lifecycle. See, since it's really a computer, apparently he thinks they can get away with announcing "upgraded" versions. So by 2016, the PS4 might finally replace the PS3-OSR2-SP5 or something.
The actual quote is:
From this article.
So, yeah, maybe a "10-year lifecycle" isn't out of the question, if they keep on churning out new consoles and call 'em PS3s anyway.
Plus, by continuously upgrading specs, they can ensure that the PS3 will continue to cost $600 for years! ($500 for the previous iteration.)
I kinda wish game reviewers would start including this information in the review. It sounds like a neat game, but I have one very simple requirement before I'll buy another PC game:
It must run without the CD in the drive.
I wish reviewers would include information on how the copy protection is on these games. If I had known that WarCraft III would find a way to kill my CD drivers, I'd never have bought it. (Seriously, I had to reinstall Windows to regain access to my CD drives.) I'm sick of putting up with video games that require the CD for no good reason, and am simply furious at the games that attempt to install driver-level code.
Can Slashdot reviews please start containing information on how the game handles copy protection? I'm willing to put up with registration keys and online activation. I'm not willing to put up with having to have the CD in the drive just to run the game.
Prey sounds like it's a game I might be interested in playing - assuming that the copy protection isn't too severe.
I agree, both Kerry and Bush were bad for America. Which is why, when I voted, I didn't vote for either of them, I voted for a third party.
Which got something like a fraction of a percent of the total vote, but still... If enough people who disagree with both main-party canidates vote for third parties, eventually it might have a very small difference.
It beats not saying anything.
That's the violation of "need to know" - she released information about classified interrogation transcripts to people without the need to know - a clear violation of security protocols.
Giving her opinion on waterboarding is one thing, talking about classified information without following proper proceedures is another.