Maybe letters from you don't work, but letters from the FCC usually work. I've had a problem with a bank once, I wrote them and they completely ignored me. After 30 days, I've asked for help from a governmental organization, they wrote to the bank and a couple of days letter I had my answer AND the problem was fixed thanks to a simple inquiry sent by the right person/organization.
Actually, your suspicion is wrong. It is not very easy to log on with full administrator rights. OTHO, it is quite easy to click the "OK" button on the UAC window that asks you if you want to give a running program full administrator rights. And we all know that any dialog should be answered with "OK" and "Yes," because it is a good thing to let the computer do its job - after all, you're just human. Then again, when was the last time you read all the road sings while driving? In my city, they put some new traffic semaphores to ease driving through a big intersection and only in the morning of the first day they were turned on there were five accidents. People don't even see blinking lights any more! The fact is people are getting used to ignoring information, no matter how you show it to them. This may be caused by exceeding stupidity or by the vast amount of useless information we are constantly bombarded with.
One way to fix this would be if the computer would only work if the users would attach a sensor to their genital organs. The next step would be to use the same wires to shock the users every time they are presented with a question. The final step would be to allow the computer to function properly for the users after they had a minimum of one year of training. The other way would be to attach shock-wires the programmers' genitals. Every time they add a question dialog box in their application they get shocked. That will ensure most applications will behave as expected, will go through usability tests and every nag the users get will be paid for by the programmers. (- replace "programmers" with whoever makes application design in your company). Now, I'm not saying application questions shouldn't be used, but they should be used sparingly.
Now you're just splitting hair. Replace tool box with tool shed in my previous comment. Dammit, some of you guys sure are lazy! Why can't you think for yourself for a bit?
Also, the bank clearly said that it did not use 10.249.*.* while he said that at least one ping test replied with one such address. I stopped reading the rest of the PDF after I read that, because I began wondering what does that have to do with advertising the company that writes G-WAN on Slashdot?... oh, nevermind, I got it now: our web server is free as in "beer" (yet not open-source) and btw, we've got a big trial going on and we're doing pretty good and the company is writing lots of software for lots of countries and we might soon make $200 if the judge buys our story. What do you think of G-WAN now?
And why do you always hide behind AC when you know you look like an idiot for arguing about spelling in a geek forum? You also missed many other spelling mistakes. Doesn't that also make you an idiot? Why do you think that everyone needs to fully comprehend the whole English language and know by heart how to use and write every little word exactly as it was chosen by some guys in robes at some conference a few decades ago, in order to communicate to each other? Why didn't you enclose the words you were correcting in double quotes? The correct way of saying what you said would have been: > and you're also forgetting that "loose" is a word, but because English is such a messed up language with so many influences from around the world, it's getting more and more difficult to spell it. And how is your ranting contributing to the discussion? The guy wrote "loose" and you clearly understood what he was talking about. Why does it matter that he didn't write it as you would have wanted him to? He also clearly said that he moved to New York, US from Naple, Italy therefore you can't expect him to know the same English language you were taught in school, since many news publications and books in the US are full of bad spelling. I've even seen school books that taught kids wrong ways to spell as if they were correct.
There is a reason why we don't refer to screwdrivers, circular saws and sanding machines all as "hammers"
Yes there is such a reason and that's because they're not "hammers" an "tools," which is why we don't call them "hammers" but we call them "tools." And while we're at it, please hand me that "toolbox." No, not that "screwdrivers-and-circular-saws-and-hammers-box" just the "toolbox." Thanks.
My problem with the Google OS is I don't really want an OS with no hard drive and everything living on the net somewhere out of my control. I want to copy my photos onto my hard drive(s), convert them (from RAW) etc etc. I can't be doing all that over the net with 11 meg images, over a possibly slow, and definately hostile internet connection.
Then, Google Chrome OS isn't for you. Try Apple OS X.
Cochran says the NIF laser is still not powerful enough. Even if it were, he says, "these machines are just going to be too big, and too costly, and they'll never be competitive."
Proof of concept devices area always oversized and more costly than the production versions. Once you know it works and how it works, you can start shrinking it down and since the development is done, the cost per unit goes down further.
Sustaining the parent: what could we ever do with a tranzistor? It's too big and expensive for any practical use. Diodes are pretty big, too! And why would anybody want to see the image on TV in color when black&white is just fine? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Idiots like Cochran get big jobs, they cost us too much technological advancement and they're anti-competitive by killing technology even before its birth.
And this really serves their purpose if they are trying to scare people away from the GPL. "Microsoft forced to give up someone else's source code on the author's demand."
Emphasis text mine, too bad non-technical people will never see it.
Yeah, we wanted something to rant about for the next decade like "d00d, remember when m$ st0le gpl c0de? fuck yeah! let's bitch ab0ut it s0me m0re 0n 0ur bl0gs!" and all we got was Microsoft acknowledging its fault. I had prepared like over a dozen Slashdot posts just for this and now I have to throw them all away? Fuck you, Microsoft! I hate Microsoft!
[yes, i'm faking bashing Microsoft]
I have to admit, this was a kick in the nuts for FOSS. I doubt many FOSS supporters expected an answer like this. By acknowledging their mistake, Microsoft ended the whole fuss very quickly.
Where the fuck is the +10 Interesting option on Slashdot when you need it? That's exactly what I was thinking and I was wondering why nobody else asked it yet.
The problem is not the web site, but the browser. Web browsers shouldn't just accept cookies from anyone, they should ask for permission first. If I remember correctly, there was at least some version of IE or Netscape that used to do this and I always just clicked yes and found it extremely annoying. Everyone else did as well. Maybe the W3C or something similar should use something like "any application that could accept cookies should always ask permission from the user unless otherwise specifically chosen by the user" as a standard (the way lynx does it). I'm sure Firefox would jump in immediately, Chrome, Safari and Opera would also follow and eventually IE.
The web sites are not the problem, they only ask the browser to store a cookie and the browser does this blindly. The web site does not store any tracking information on the user's computer, the browser does.
The web browsers should be regulated instead of the web sites.
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Maybe letters from you don't work, but letters from the FCC usually work. I've had a problem with a bank once, I wrote them and they completely ignored me. After 30 days, I've asked for help from a governmental organization, they wrote to the bank and a couple of days letter I had my answer AND the problem was fixed thanks to a simple inquiry sent by the right person/organization.
Actually, if they'd have no competition we'd have nothing to relate them to. That would really suck for them.
Bullshit! They're just using this as an excuse to have a permanent Internet connection so they can play WoW.
Actually, your suspicion is wrong. It is not very easy to log on with full administrator rights. OTHO, it is quite easy to click the "OK" button on the UAC window that asks you if you want to give a running program full administrator rights. And we all know that any dialog should be answered with "OK" and "Yes," because it is a good thing to let the computer do its job - after all, you're just human. Then again, when was the last time you read all the road sings while driving? In my city, they put some new traffic semaphores to ease driving through a big intersection and only in the morning of the first day they were turned on there were five accidents. People don't even see blinking lights any more! The fact is people are getting used to ignoring information, no matter how you show it to them. This may be caused by exceeding stupidity or by the vast amount of useless information we are constantly bombarded with.
One way to fix this would be if the computer would only work if the users would attach a sensor to their genital organs. The next step would be to use the same wires to shock the users every time they are presented with a question. The final step would be to allow the computer to function properly for the users after they had a minimum of one year of training.
The other way would be to attach shock-wires the programmers' genitals. Every time they add a question dialog box in their application they get shocked. That will ensure most applications will behave as expected, will go through usability tests and every nag the users get will be paid for by the programmers. (- replace "programmers" with whoever makes application design in your company). Now, I'm not saying application questions shouldn't be used, but they should be used sparingly.
Problem solved.
I've got one URL for ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy
And that is what we call a work-around, not a solution.
As the way you're currently modded (Troll) should be held up as an example of what happens to your comment when people simply disagree with it.
Now you're just splitting hair. Replace tool box with tool shed in my previous comment.
Dammit, some of you guys sure are lazy! Why can't you think for yourself for a bit?
Also, the bank clearly said that it did not use 10.249.*.* while he said that at least one ping test replied with one such address. I stopped reading the rest of the PDF after I read that, because I began wondering what does that have to do with advertising the company that writes G-WAN on Slashdot? ... oh, nevermind, I got it now: our web server is free as in "beer" (yet not open-source) and btw, we've got a big trial going on and we're doing pretty good and the company is writing lots of software for lots of countries and we might soon make $200 if the judge buys our story. What do you think of G-WAN now?
And why do you always hide behind AC when you know you look like an idiot for arguing about spelling in a geek forum? You also missed many other spelling mistakes. Doesn't that also make you an idiot? Why do you think that everyone needs to fully comprehend the whole English language and know by heart how to use and write every little word exactly as it was chosen by some guys in robes at some conference a few decades ago, in order to communicate to each other? Why didn't you enclose the words you were correcting in double quotes? The correct way of saying what you said would have been: > and you're also forgetting that "loose" is a word, but because English is such a messed up language with so many influences from around the world, it's getting more and more difficult to spell it. And how is your ranting contributing to the discussion? The guy wrote "loose" and you clearly understood what he was talking about. Why does it matter that he didn't write it as you would have wanted him to? He also clearly said that he moved to New York, US from Naple, Italy therefore you can't expect him to know the same English language you were taught in school, since many news publications and books in the US are full of bad spelling. I've even seen school books that taught kids wrong ways to spell as if they were correct.
I'm feeling much better now :-)
There is a reason why we don't refer to screwdrivers, circular saws and sanding machines all as "hammers"
Yes there is such a reason and that's because they're not "hammers" an "tools," which is why we don't call them "hammers" but we call them "tools." And while we're at it, please hand me that "toolbox." No, not that "screwdrivers-and-circular-saws-and-hammers-box" just the "toolbox." Thanks.
My problem with the Google OS is I don't really want an OS with no hard drive and everything living on the net somewhere out of my control. I want to copy my photos onto my hard drive(s), convert them (from RAW) etc etc. I can't be doing all that over the net with 11 meg images, over a possibly slow, and definately hostile internet connection.
Then, Google Chrome OS isn't for you. Try Apple OS X.
Might have been easier if the image was smaller than 300 megabytes.
And that might have been easier if they didn't need to include all those drivers.
Cochran says the NIF laser is still not powerful enough. Even if it were, he says, "these machines are just going to be too big, and too costly, and they'll never be competitive."
Proof of concept devices area always oversized and more costly than the production versions. Once you know it works and how it works, you can start shrinking it down and since the development is done, the cost per unit goes down further.
Sustaining the parent: what could we ever do with a tranzistor? It's too big and expensive for any practical use. Diodes are pretty big, too! And why would anybody want to see the image on TV in color when black&white is just fine? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Idiots like Cochran get big jobs, they cost us too much technological advancement and they're anti-competitive by killing technology even before its birth.
And this really serves their purpose if they are trying to scare people away from the GPL. "Microsoft forced to give up someone else's source code on the author's demand."
Emphasis text mine, too bad non-technical people will never see it.
Yeah, we wanted something to rant about for the next decade like "d00d, remember when m$ st0le gpl c0de? fuck yeah! let's bitch ab0ut it s0me m0re 0n 0ur bl0gs!" and all we got was Microsoft acknowledging its fault. I had prepared like over a dozen Slashdot posts just for this and now I have to throw them all away? Fuck you, Microsoft! I hate Microsoft!
[yes, i'm faking bashing Microsoft]
I have to admit, this was a kick in the nuts for FOSS. I doubt many FOSS supporters expected an answer like this. By acknowledging their mistake, Microsoft ended the whole fuss very quickly.
Where the fuck is the +10 Interesting option on Slashdot when you need it? That's exactly what I was thinking and I was wondering why nobody else asked it yet.
For us, the rest of the world, it IS. The EU != english as first language.
The problem is not the web site, but the browser. Web browsers shouldn't just accept cookies from anyone, they should ask for permission first. If I remember correctly, there was at least some version of IE or Netscape that used to do this and I always just clicked yes and found it extremely annoying. Everyone else did as well. Maybe the W3C or something similar should use something like "any application that could accept cookies should always ask permission from the user unless otherwise specifically chosen by the user" as a standard (the way lynx does it). I'm sure Firefox would jump in immediately, Chrome, Safari and Opera would also follow and eventually IE.
The web sites are not the problem, they only ask the browser to store a cookie and the browser does this blindly. The web site does not store any tracking information on the user's computer, the browser does.
The web browsers should be regulated instead of the web sites.
Didn't OS X do this already?
True, but if you RTFA, you see this: http://www.withinwindows.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/example1.png We're not talking about some int parameter here, we're talking about huge chunks of identical code.