Amen! It also takes *forever* to pop open a download window. And the download manager itself is incredibly buggy too, sometimes forgetting that you downloaded something. (I'd love to see a feature where it remembers the original location that you downloaded it from and dumps that in a log, but I digress) When you close a window, it can take a few seconds to show the window beneath it (I still prefer windows to tabs most of the time), although opening a window has become a little bit quicker. One of the 1.2 nightlies I was using didn't have the problem with the slow windows, though the download problem has been there for as long as I can remember. And this is on a 1.2GHz Athlon with 768MB RAM, so speed and memory aren't issues.
That having been said, I've tried Phoenix. It's nice, it's fast, and when I open a bunch of windows and browse for a while, and then close the browser, it instantly reboots my computer without any warning. It doesn't do mail (anyone recommend a good mail client for windows?) and it doesn't coexist peacefully with Mozilla on the same machine. Ok, that's enough of a rant for now.
I nominate Homestar Runner as new slashdot editor-in-chief. Admit it, he'd do at least as good of a job. And I don't care if he's animated and not real!
It's not hypocrisy in this case. If the Danish RIAA were going after the users themselves, that's fine. But what's going on here would be like the BSA (business software alliance, not boy scouts) going after some pirates, saying "pay up or we'll sue" but never really saying what they'll do with that money, and charging the pirates $500 for each copy of windows downloaded and $1500 for each copy of ms office.
That having been said, I do enjoy watching slashdotters squirm in their pants when accused of hipocrisy.;)
What's so bad about GUI email programs? Is your beef with the current implementation of them, or is it the concept of having email presented in a graphical environment? Does the simple act of displaying it graphically make it inherently insecure? No. And let's not forget (mostly) everyone's favorite text-based email client, the historically insecure PINE! Should we all switch over to that and trade one security hazard for another? And not to flame you for the GNU/Linux comment, but virii will spread just as quickly on linux if it becomes the de facto standard and you've got millions of lusers out there logging in as root everyday.
No. Any program that spies on you is spyware. Just because it's forced on you doesn't mean it spies on you (although that does happen to be the usual M.O. of these programs).
When you walk into a McDonald's, you're usually asked "Do you want fries with that?" It's a profit generator, because some if not most people say yes. When you visit certain websites, a window pops up (usually) asking if you want to install their software. Just because you don't go to McDonald's 10 times a day (as you would with some websites like the BBC) doesn't mean it's not annoying.
As much as I agree with your solution when applied to the *AA, it doesn't quite work with the phone companies.
So to the phone companies I say, Adapt or Die, better yet just die.
If they "just died," the vast majority of Americans would be without internet access, since they either use DSL or the phone line to dial up (what, you wanna give the cable companies a monopoly?). Even if they do use cable or get on at work, who do you think runs a good chunk of the lines to these businesses? WorldCom, Sprint, AT&T, Qwest and Verizon own the vast majority of the backbone here in the states. If they just up and died, so would the internet in the US. If you make them "adapt" they'll just start charging you per KB/MB/GB instead, and they'll price it so their income doesn't drop, which means everything will be a hell of a lot more expensive in the bandwidth-intensive future
There's a few things I've noticed that are a LOT faster. Creating a new window (and being able to alt-tab back to the first one, since you can't load a new window in the background like a tab) is quite a bit quicker, but that's nothing compared to the speed-up when you're opening a download progress window. (I'm not that big a fan of download manager, I still prefer separate windows). In mozilla 1.1 (unsure about 1.2) this can actually take a couple of seconds on a 1.2GHz Athlon w/768mb ram.
Does anyone know if there's any way of porting some of the UI speed improvements back to mozilla? Or if someone will come along and make a version of mozilla that's been tweaked for windows so it doesn't take forever? The only thing I don't like about Phoenix is that when you shift-click, it opens in a new window instead of downloading the link.
I realize you're not asking if it's been done before, but rather if it's included in the release. I'd almost put money on it not being included in the release, and here's why. A couple years ago Real shut down a little company for producing two products: StreamboxVCR and StreamboxRipper (could be one in the same, it's been a while). IIRC, the major reasons for doing this were twofold: they reverse-engineered the secret handshake, and you could save streamed media. Real realized that if people could easily save media streamed over their protocols, the big media companies would flock to a competitor (i.e., microsoft) and therefore shut the company down. I'm not sure if the fact that they reverse engineered the handshake actually had anything to do with the shutdown, but it was the previously missing key to saving streamed media. I highly doubt they'll just give it away now.
If the nanotech that will be repairing the cracks is anything like the self-healing plastic, I really hope they find a way to make the repairing particles a different color, or maybe add some dye or something. If you've got a bunch of cracks in an area, and all the fixing particles are currently in use, you've got an area that can no longer fix itself. If the fixing particles are the same color as the stuff they're healing, you'd have no idea that it got damaged in the first place. You wouldn't want to go into battle with a tank that's unknowingly damaged.
"Time sharing and multi-tasking does not come easily to the human brain."
For once I'd like to see a study done that investigates whether or not there's any difference in distraction due to age. Many of our parents grew up without really having to multitask. Think about it, how many adults look at you funny when you tell them you can listen to music and study or do homework at the same time? Our generation has grown up in a world of multitasking, and as a result, our brains are wired differently than those of our parents. I'd really like to see a study that breaks it up by age group -- how do teens perform while on a hands-free, how about college kids and twenty-somethings? How about those in their 30s and 40s? The elderly?
There is such a thing as responsible use of a cell phone in a car -- there's nothing wrong with a quick "hey honey, do you need me to stop at the store and pick up some milk?" when you're stopped at a stoplight or cruising in light traffic. The one potential flaw with my theory is that in the real world, a 30-40 year old tends to be more responsible in the car than a 20 year old. (I hate the distracted soccer moms with their SUVs as much as the rest of you, but they're fewer in number than irresponsible people my age)
Actually, it would be travelling at pretty much the same speed. In comparison to the sun's mass, both the Earth and this asteroid are tiny, so they'll orbit at roughly the same speed.
That's actually the way it used to be. Walk through any colonial town on the east coast (Old Town Alexandria comes to mind) and you'll see something called fire medallions on many of the old buildings. You had to pay (I forget if it was monthly or yearly) to have the fire department protect you. If you needed a doctor, you paid for one. (Though you wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars for tests, lab fees, drugs, etc) I believe the police didn't cost you any money, but then, they considered it essential to maintain some semblence of order in society. That said, I think it should all be publically funded. The goverment should be there to give us basic security and services, enough to keep the city/state/country running, but not much more than that.
Back to my point, in the old days you paid for your services just like the previous poster said. You call him a capitalist and not a libertarian, ignoring the fact that your own ideas are somewhat socialist.
Few of the SACDs I've seen have been hybrid. In fact, I haven't even honestly seen all that many 5.1 SACDs. Adding insult to injury, they've all been selling for about $25. So the two major reasons to upgrade, backwards-compatible hybrid layers and surround sound, are the exception rather than the rule. If I weren't a poor college student right now, I'd honestly consider paying a small premium (but not $25) on an SACD if it worked NOW, in my CD player, and then later once I can afford a nicer set of speakers and an SACD player. That way I could avoid paying for it twice.
Does anyone know of a good site that explains how to easily and fairly securely set up a VPN?
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Nah, too confusing. I pity the poor soul who would tap the honeypot thinking he could get free porn because he saw a poorly drawn vagina on the street. Maybe if you drew it with "dirty" underneath, that might work.;)
It's more fun to try and convert door-to-door Mormons to Buddhism. I tried it once this past winter, you should have seen the look of confusion on their faces! For added fun, explain to them how you can be Buddhist *and* Christian at the same time.:)
The output doesn't change to match HDTV simply because your cable company is carrying the analog signal. Plus, not all HDTV is widescreen. They could be broadcasting in 480i, which is essentially the same format that current analog TVs use except it's transmitted digitally. Digital cable isn't DTV, and it's not even in the same ballpark as HDTV. It's an analog broadcast, compressed and sent digitally. If you want to view it in HDTV, you're gonna need an HDTV tuner and an HDTV antenna. Or you can sign up for DirectTV HD and pay for some premium channels in HDTV, but your local channels will still be analog unless you put up an antenna. I wish you the best of luck.
A google search yields about 105,000 results with the words "DIY" and "linux," so why should this be considered any less newsworthy?
Sure, building your own subwoofer might not be news, and it might not be a new idea, but until Slashdot gets a "really cool stuff that doesn't quite qualify as news but it's still for nerds" section, the front page will have to do.
Recently we had to do an estimation problem in our physics class. The question was how much gas would the US save each year if every SUV driver drove a hybrid instead. My group came up with a savings of almost 14 billion gallons of gas per year. (20m SUVs -> Hybrids, 15mpg/suv, 45mpg/hybrid, 15k mi/year) Which is apparently almost exactly the amount of oil our country imports every year. I'm patriotic and all, but I'm really tired of seeing the American flag on EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE I go. If our fellow Americans truly wanted to be patriotic and hit the middle east where it hurts, we'd trade in our gas guzzling SUVs and eliminate the need for imported oil.
I worked at a Sheetz for almost two years (it was decent money). I had to work both the register and in MTO (made to order, the food part). Most people actually love the machines, especially if they have kids. It talks to you (which gets old real quick if you have to work there) and you can punch in for a special order if you need to talk to someone. Or you can always shout. But there's pictures on all of the icons too, so the man you're talking about probably wasn't just illiterate, but possibly half-blind and lonely as well. The only problem is the machines have touch screens that eventually wear out, and it can be difficult to push the buttons once that happens. The flat screens have a slot for a credit card on the side, and are the same exact machines you see the employees using at the register (room for future expansion maybe?).
Essentially, it's the equivalent of removing waiters from restaurants. You can automate order taking, but you'll never replace the chef.
I'm typing this over my 802.11b wireless broadband connection right now. (spare me the lack of security comments, they have it set up pretty well). Ricochet SHOULD consider 802.11b to be a serious competing technology. It's getting cheaper and easier to set up a few towers around a town and provide access to just about anybody that wants it. Verizon & Adelphia were dragging their feet bringing broadband to my hometown until a couple of start-ups provided high-speed access for cheap (cheaper than the $100/mo 128k SDSL that was here anyway. $50/mo for 1.4mbit/128k) and now they're running to catch up. Ricochet will soon be joining them in the big game of catch up.
I run windows (i've tried a bunch of linux distros, even BeOS. windows does what i need -- photoshop, 3dsmax. linux doesn't (no gimp and blender don't do what i need), so spare me your flames) and I'd love to try this thing out... but no binaries! If you want to get converts from the Windows camp, you need to make your app available to Windows users. Look at VirtualDub. It's GPL'd, works great, and is available as a win executable. The trick is getting windows users hooked on all the free goodies and becoming familiar with so it's easier to switch to linux.
If open source wants greater market share, it's gotta be available for windows. I'm using Moz and gotten quite a few friends hooked on it -- because it's free and available for windows. Why isn't this?
I know that your show touches on the science behind the cooking, but episodes tend to deal with only one specific food (and granted, many ways to cook it). What I'd love to see is a set of instructional videos that give an overview of basic kitchenology, like build the perfect kitchen piece by piece, or what the different methods of heating food are, etc. Have you ever considered releasing such a thing?
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That having been said, I've tried Phoenix. It's nice, it's fast, and when I open a bunch of windows and browse for a while, and then close the browser, it instantly reboots my computer without any warning. It doesn't do mail (anyone recommend a good mail client for windows?) and it doesn't coexist peacefully with Mozilla on the same machine. Ok, that's enough of a rant for now.
I nominate Homestar Runner as new slashdot editor-in-chief. Admit it, he'd do at least as good of a job. And I don't care if he's animated and not real!
That having been said, I do enjoy watching slashdotters squirm in their pants when accused of hipocrisy. ;)
What's so bad about GUI email programs? Is your beef with the current implementation of them, or is it the concept of having email presented in a graphical environment? Does the simple act of displaying it graphically make it inherently insecure? No. And let's not forget (mostly) everyone's favorite text-based email client, the historically insecure PINE! Should we all switch over to that and trade one security hazard for another? And not to flame you for the GNU/Linux comment, but virii will spread just as quickly on linux if it becomes the de facto standard and you've got millions of lusers out there logging in as root everyday.
When you walk into a McDonald's, you're usually asked "Do you want fries with that?" It's a profit generator, because some if not most people say yes. When you visit certain websites, a window pops up (usually) asking if you want to install their software. Just because you don't go to McDonald's 10 times a day (as you would with some websites like the BBC) doesn't mean it's not annoying.
So to the phone companies I say, Adapt or Die, better yet just die.
If they "just died," the vast majority of Americans would be without internet access, since they either use DSL or the phone line to dial up (what, you wanna give the cable companies a monopoly?). Even if they do use cable or get on at work, who do you think runs a good chunk of the lines to these businesses? WorldCom, Sprint, AT&T, Qwest and Verizon own the vast majority of the backbone here in the states. If they just up and died, so would the internet in the US. If you make them "adapt" they'll just start charging you per KB/MB/GB instead, and they'll price it so their income doesn't drop, which means everything will be a hell of a lot more expensive in the bandwidth-intensive future
You adapt or grow up, better yet just grow up.
Does anyone know if there's any way of porting some of the UI speed improvements back to mozilla? Or if someone will come along and make a version of mozilla that's been tweaked for windows so it doesn't take forever? The only thing I don't like about Phoenix is that when you shift-click, it opens in a new window instead of downloading the link.
I realize you're not asking if it's been done before, but rather if it's included in the release. I'd almost put money on it not being included in the release, and here's why. A couple years ago Real shut down a little company for producing two products: StreamboxVCR and StreamboxRipper (could be one in the same, it's been a while). IIRC, the major reasons for doing this were twofold: they reverse-engineered the secret handshake, and you could save streamed media. Real realized that if people could easily save media streamed over their protocols, the big media companies would flock to a competitor (i.e., microsoft) and therefore shut the company down. I'm not sure if the fact that they reverse engineered the handshake actually had anything to do with the shutdown, but it was the previously missing key to saving streamed media. I highly doubt they'll just give it away now.
If the nanotech that will be repairing the cracks is anything like the self-healing plastic, I really hope they find a way to make the repairing particles a different color, or maybe add some dye or something. If you've got a bunch of cracks in an area, and all the fixing particles are currently in use, you've got an area that can no longer fix itself. If the fixing particles are the same color as the stuff they're healing, you'd have no idea that it got damaged in the first place. You wouldn't want to go into battle with a tank that's unknowingly damaged.
For once I'd like to see a study done that investigates whether or not there's any difference in distraction due to age. Many of our parents grew up without really having to multitask. Think about it, how many adults look at you funny when you tell them you can listen to music and study or do homework at the same time? Our generation has grown up in a world of multitasking, and as a result, our brains are wired differently than those of our parents. I'd really like to see a study that breaks it up by age group -- how do teens perform while on a hands-free, how about college kids and twenty-somethings? How about those in their 30s and 40s? The elderly?
There is such a thing as responsible use of a cell phone in a car -- there's nothing wrong with a quick "hey honey, do you need me to stop at the store and pick up some milk?" when you're stopped at a stoplight or cruising in light traffic. The one potential flaw with my theory is that in the real world, a 30-40 year old tends to be more responsible in the car than a 20 year old. (I hate the distracted soccer moms with their SUVs as much as the rest of you, but they're fewer in number than irresponsible people my age)
What do they mean by eccentric? Is that like BT patenting hyperlinks? ;)
Yeah, seriously, come on. 82.7% of people know this.
Actually, it would be travelling at pretty much the same speed. In comparison to the sun's mass, both the Earth and this asteroid are tiny, so they'll orbit at roughly the same speed.
Back to my point, in the old days you paid for your services just like the previous poster said. You call him a capitalist and not a libertarian, ignoring the fact that your own ideas are somewhat socialist.
Few of the SACDs I've seen have been hybrid. In fact, I haven't even honestly seen all that many 5.1 SACDs. Adding insult to injury, they've all been selling for about $25. So the two major reasons to upgrade, backwards-compatible hybrid layers and surround sound, are the exception rather than the rule. If I weren't a poor college student right now, I'd honestly consider paying a small premium (but not $25) on an SACD if it worked NOW, in my CD player, and then later once I can afford a nicer set of speakers and an SACD player. That way I could avoid paying for it twice.
Does anyone know of a good site that explains how to easily and fairly securely set up a VPN?
Nah, too confusing. I pity the poor soul who would tap the honeypot thinking he could get free porn because he saw a poorly drawn vagina on the street. Maybe if you drew it with "dirty" underneath, that might work. ;)
It's more fun to try and convert door-to-door Mormons to Buddhism. I tried it once this past winter, you should have seen the look of confusion on their faces! For added fun, explain to them how you can be Buddhist *and* Christian at the same time. :)
The output doesn't change to match HDTV simply because your cable company is carrying the analog signal. Plus, not all HDTV is widescreen. They could be broadcasting in 480i, which is essentially the same format that current analog TVs use except it's transmitted digitally. Digital cable isn't DTV, and it's not even in the same ballpark as HDTV. It's an analog broadcast, compressed and sent digitally. If you want to view it in HDTV, you're gonna need an HDTV tuner and an HDTV antenna. Or you can sign up for DirectTV HD and pay for some premium channels in HDTV, but your local channels will still be analog unless you put up an antenna. I wish you the best of luck.
Sure, building your own subwoofer might not be news, and it might not be a new idea, but until Slashdot gets a "really cool stuff that doesn't quite qualify as news but it's still for nerds" section, the front page will have to do.
Recently we had to do an estimation problem in our physics class. The question was how much gas would the US save each year if every SUV driver drove a hybrid instead. My group came up with a savings of almost 14 billion gallons of gas per year. (20m SUVs -> Hybrids, 15mpg/suv, 45mpg/hybrid, 15k mi/year) Which is apparently almost exactly the amount of oil our country imports every year. I'm patriotic and all, but I'm really tired of seeing the American flag on EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE I go. If our fellow Americans truly wanted to be patriotic and hit the middle east where it hurts, we'd trade in our gas guzzling SUVs and eliminate the need for imported oil.
I worked at a Sheetz for almost two years (it was decent money). I had to work both the register and in MTO (made to order, the food part). Most people actually love the machines, especially if they have kids. It talks to you (which gets old real quick if you have to work there) and you can punch in for a special order if you need to talk to someone. Or you can always shout. But there's pictures on all of the icons too, so the man you're talking about probably wasn't just illiterate, but possibly half-blind and lonely as well. The only problem is the machines have touch screens that eventually wear out, and it can be difficult to push the buttons once that happens. The flat screens have a slot for a credit card on the side, and are the same exact machines you see the employees using at the register (room for future expansion maybe?).
Essentially, it's the equivalent of removing waiters from restaurants. You can automate order taking, but you'll never replace the chef.
I'm typing this over my 802.11b wireless broadband connection right now. (spare me the lack of security comments, they have it set up pretty well). Ricochet SHOULD consider 802.11b to be a serious competing technology. It's getting cheaper and easier to set up a few towers around a town and provide access to just about anybody that wants it. Verizon & Adelphia were dragging their feet bringing broadband to my hometown until a couple of start-ups provided high-speed access for cheap (cheaper than the $100/mo 128k SDSL that was here anyway. $50/mo for 1.4mbit/128k) and now they're running to catch up. Ricochet will soon be joining them in the big game of catch up.
I run windows (i've tried a bunch of linux distros, even BeOS. windows does what i need -- photoshop, 3dsmax. linux doesn't (no gimp and blender don't do what i need), so spare me your flames) and I'd love to try this thing out... but no binaries! If you want to get converts from the Windows camp, you need to make your app available to Windows users. Look at VirtualDub. It's GPL'd, works great, and is available as a win executable. The trick is getting windows users hooked on all the free goodies and becoming familiar with so it's easier to switch to linux.
If open source wants greater market share, it's gotta be available for windows. I'm using Moz and gotten quite a few friends hooked on it -- because it's free and available for windows. Why isn't this?
I know that your show touches on the science behind the cooking, but episodes tend to deal with only one specific food (and granted, many ways to cook it). What I'd love to see is a set of instructional videos that give an overview of basic kitchenology, like build the perfect kitchen piece by piece, or what the different methods of heating food are, etc. Have you ever considered releasing such a thing?