The next version of Enlightenment (DR17) is a complete rewrite which can do nifty stuff like use opengl to handle desktop geometry, alpha transparency/anti-aliasing, etc... It has been in development since a bit before devleopment ceased on DR16.
You'll have to wait a while still before the first public release, though.
Maybe a "halt" open hand with depictions of death beside it... people melting, bursting open, and other such very bad things that aren't likely to be mistaken for something benign.
I don't know of any cultures which don't know that someone wants you to stop when they stick their open hand out at you.
Strictly, there's nothing stopping UWB from operating in the gamma regions.
The fact that UWB operates only in the RF range and gamma rays are completely on the opposite side of the EM spectrum does, indeed, put a stop to that.
A band as wide as you're thinking of would encompass heat and visible light as well, which would be really silly for no-LOS wireless.
No contract or agreement can deny you any of your rights, including the consumer right to make backup copies of media.
I've got numerous games and there's no mention of that restriction in any of the printed material that came with them. In fact, I'd be surprised if there were- It's illegal and punished severely.
At least, that's the way it is here in Canada.
The US is a great neighbor and all, but they really ought to correct the "land/home of the free" part of their anthem... or at least attach a disclaimer.
IT departments should know the benefits and drawbacks of software before they buy it.
IT departments often do know the benefits and drawbacks of their software choices, but someone they can't refuse (be it management or a client) will always insist on what they're familiar with and what inter-operates with their colleagues.
That means Exchange and Outlook on Windows, because they've been weaned on it and it only inter-operates with itself.
It's more like the car company selling you a car without air bags and then offering to install free replacements if you drive down to the dealership in your currently airbag-less car...
It is, in one word, insufficient.
Re:What is "preemtive" for ?
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Having a preemptive kernel just means that the kernel will allow itself to be interrupted by other programs and give them some cpu time.
This improves response time for your programs as now they won't get stuck waiting for the kernel to finish doing something time-consuming (like disk I/O) before they get some cpu cycles.
In most cases this isn't a big deal, but you'd definitely notice when your mp3 player skips because it's stuck in line behind the kernel.
You can get "owned" while using anything that uses the IE engine. IE itself, Outlook, active desktop (eg: news ticker from a cracked or malicious site), various peer-to-peer apps...
I've probably missed many, but I believe those are the major ones.
You would hold your AV vendor responsible if a non-viral file like format.com is used through an IE vulnerability to destroy your data, but not Microsoft, because IE is free?
The kids in your neighborhood may like to leave paper bags on your doorstep that are full of something just as free and about as pleasant.
You actually pay for IE a little with every purchase of MS' products. The money to subsidize its development has to come from somewhere.
They also force you to install it with windows wether you like it or not, and provide no means with which to uninstall it. That's downright obnoxious, IMHO. 98lite can take care of it, but such measures really shouldn't be neccessary in the first place.
Forcing people to educate themselves and be vigilant is a nice sentiment, but you can't ignore the fact that those kids are the ones who commited the crime and created the malicious code. They are the ones at fault.
While flaws in security and human judgement are a shame, exploiting them to do harm is illegal.
It would be nice if these flaws could be corrected or avoided by replacing faulty products but for the most part that's not an option for many people thanks to MS' monopoly, which is also illegal... but that's not the crime in question, so I digress.
I think it was the old Sierra Space/Police/Hero's Quest games that finally made me break down and buy a sound card.
I absolutely had to hear those little tunes and sound effects on something better than a PC speaker.
I can't see how Doom could have increased demand for add-in graphics cards, though. It used no 3D acceleration and any computer bought anywhere near the time it came out had a VGA card more than capable of handling the game's 2D-3D graphics anyway.
Doom 2 kicked my little 486dx33's ass, and even then the thing I upgraded was the CPU and not the video card.
The amount of hydrogen in a fuel cell is a lot smaller than was in the huge bladders of the Hindenburg.
It's also packed very tightly between "wafers" in the core of the cell. Leakage would take quite a bit of strucural damage; definately more than is required to puncture a conventional gas tank.
I doubt it would survive a crash, but then I doubt any kind of large power source would survive a crash. I'd expect the fuel cell would flare up or jet fire, but not the roiling, plane-consuming fireball you usually get from conventional fuels.
- Mozilla is Open Source
Zealots aside, why is this better?
It's there if it's needed or wanted, and can't be taken away.
- Mozilla won't accept activeX or other such nonsense
Which limit's its use on heavily scripted, harmless, usefull sites.
I honestly don't know of any sites that are heavily scripted while remaining both harmless and useful.
- Mozilla has tabbled browsing
Which slows down the quick alt+tab everyone uses to switch between browser windows...
Then use windowed browsing. It didn't go anywhere.
- Mozilla doesn't redirect you to MSN (or AOL for that matter) and spill your privacy for all to see
Nor does IE, if you configure it correctly.
I never found an option to prevent getting passed off to MS on a DNS lookup failure, but then I almost never touch IE outside of HTML testing purposes.
- Mozilla has a development team that cares about the end product
More ramblings from a zealot. I'm sure the IE programmers care about IE. They just dont feel the need to sit around and pat each other on the back in public message boards.
I'm sure the IE developers pat each other on the back all the time, but you won't see it since they don't have public mailing lists.
- Mozilla has site-specific image and cookie management
Internet privacy zones. From your top menu in IE6: tools -> internet options -> privacy -> click the edit button. Yep, it works in IE on a site by site basis.
That it does, though personally I prefer the format of Mozilla's privacy tools. Probably a familiarity thing.
- Mozilla is stable (close to 100%) and won't bring down the OS when it crashes
Just like IE6 (which hasnt ever crashed on me, even though I use it roughly 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the past few months)
Last time I used IE (5.5) it crashed several times a day (usually on malformed javascript or activex), taking the whole OS with it half the time. I haven't tried IE6 though.
I've been using the Mozilla nightlies, and I haven't had a crash since before the summer. Some really funky regressions like the expando url bar... but no crashes.
I put my browsers through HTML/Java/Flash/script hell though, so YMMV.
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everyone just assumes it's Windows
Just the moronic submitter and the moronic editors. That's far from everyone. In fact, you'll notice that most are berating Licensed2Hack and Hemos.
Well, apparently you do.
The next version of Enlightenment (DR17) is a complete rewrite which can do nifty stuff like use opengl to handle desktop geometry, alpha transparency/anti-aliasing, etc... It has been in development since a bit before devleopment ceased on DR16.
You'll have to wait a while still before the first public release, though.
Maybe a "halt" open hand with depictions of death beside it... people melting, bursting open, and other such very bad things that aren't likely to be mistaken for something benign.
I don't know of any cultures which don't know that someone wants you to stop when they stick their open hand out at you.
Strictly, there's nothing stopping UWB from operating in the gamma regions.
The fact that UWB operates only in the RF range and gamma rays are completely on the opposite side of the EM spectrum does, indeed, put a stop to that.
A band as wide as you're thinking of would encompass heat and visible light as well, which would be really silly for no-LOS wireless.
I'm not saying white collar crime isn't "real" crime, I'm saying 1s and 0s aren't "real" crime.
It is when those 1s and 0s affect real money, property or life & limb.
It is now based on perl 5.6.1 -- actually on the latest unreleased 5.6 sources, so MacPerl is the most advanced release of perl ever
"Most advanced" is often the antithesis of "most stable". I'd be a little leery about using it until it's been hammered on a bit.
I'm rather surprised about that.
I've seen countless projects that could do with graphic design help, especially in the area of UI.
Don't let a few prima-donnas discourage you.
No contract or agreement can deny you any of your rights, including the consumer right to make backup copies of media.
I've got numerous games and there's no mention of that restriction in any of the printed material that came with them. In fact, I'd be surprised if there were- It's illegal and punished severely.
At least, that's the way it is here in Canada.
The US is a great neighbor and all, but they really ought to correct the "land/home of the free" part of their anthem... or at least attach a disclaimer.
Most of them are special-purpose, though... for use of things like SSE.
IT departments should know the benefits and drawbacks of software before they buy it.
IT departments often do know the benefits and drawbacks of their software choices, but someone they can't refuse (be it management or a client) will always insist on what they're familiar with and what inter-operates with their colleagues.
That means Exchange and Outlook on Windows, because they've been weaned on it and it only inter-operates with itself.
It's more like the car company selling you a car without air bags and then offering to install free replacements if you drive down to the dealership in your currently airbag-less car...
It is, in one word, insufficient.
Having a preemptive kernel just means that the kernel will allow itself to be interrupted by other programs and give them some cpu time.
This improves response time for your programs as now they won't get stuck waiting for the kernel to finish doing something time-consuming (like disk I/O) before they get some cpu cycles.
In most cases this isn't a big deal, but you'd definitely notice when your mp3 player skips because it's stuck in line behind the kernel.
The patch makes a big difference for me when using latency-sensitive software (xmms) while I'm really pummeling my system (big compile).
xmms usually skips a bit while I'm compiling something large, but it hasn't even once after applying the preempt patch.
I haven't noticed performance degredation from any effects on throughput, so it's all good here.
You can get "owned" while using anything that uses the IE engine. IE itself, Outlook, active desktop (eg: news ticker from a cracked or malicious site), various peer-to-peer apps...
I've probably missed many, but I believe those are the major ones.
You would hold your AV vendor responsible if a non-viral file like format.com is used through an IE vulnerability to destroy your data, but not Microsoft, because IE is free?
The kids in your neighborhood may like to leave paper bags on your doorstep that are full of something just as free and about as pleasant.
You actually pay for IE a little with every purchase of MS' products. The money to subsidize its development has to come from somewhere.
They also force you to install it with windows wether you like it or not, and provide no means with which to uninstall it. That's downright obnoxious, IMHO. 98lite can take care of it, but such measures really shouldn't be neccessary in the first place.
Forcing people to educate themselves and be vigilant is a nice sentiment, but you can't ignore the fact that those kids are the ones who commited the crime and created the malicious code. They are the ones at fault.
While flaws in security and human judgement are a shame, exploiting them to do harm is illegal.
It would be nice if these flaws could be corrected or avoided by replacing faulty products but for the most part that's not an option for many people thanks to MS' monopoly, which is also illegal... but that's not the crime in question, so I digress.
Now that's a funny way to look for it.
:-P
"which tar" or "tar" seem to me like a better idea.
I think it was the old Sierra Space/Police/Hero's Quest games that finally made me break down and buy a sound card.
I absolutely had to hear those little tunes and sound effects on something better than a PC speaker.
I can't see how Doom could have increased demand for add-in graphics cards, though. It used no 3D acceleration and any computer bought anywhere near the time it came out had a VGA card more than capable of handling the game's 2D-3D graphics anyway.
Doom 2 kicked my little 486dx33's ass, and even then the thing I upgraded was the CPU and not the video card.
The beam would certainly show up on infared as it heats the atmosphere. A direct line pointing back to the source.
The amount of hydrogen in a fuel cell is a lot smaller than was in the huge bladders of the Hindenburg.
It's also packed very tightly between "wafers" in the core of the cell. Leakage would take quite a bit of strucural damage; definately more than is required to puncture a conventional gas tank.
I doubt it would survive a crash, but then I doubt any kind of large power source would survive a crash. I'd expect the fuel cell would flare up or jet fire, but not the roiling, plane-consuming fireball you usually get from conventional fuels.
ecosoul sells a fuel cell kit, and there are instructions (pdf) from homepower mag about how to construct one.
And oil-based fuels are harmless?
Right. That's pretty much what he says every time someone asks him (which is every single interview).
- Mozilla is Open Source
Zealots aside, why is this better?
It's there if it's needed or wanted, and can't be taken away.
- Mozilla won't accept activeX or other such nonsense
Which limit's its use on heavily scripted, harmless, usefull sites.
I honestly don't know of any sites that are heavily scripted while remaining both harmless and useful.
- Mozilla has tabbled browsing
Which slows down the quick alt+tab everyone uses to switch between browser windows...
Then use windowed browsing. It didn't go anywhere.
- Mozilla doesn't redirect you to MSN (or AOL for that matter) and spill your privacy for all to see
Nor does IE, if you configure it correctly.
I never found an option to prevent getting passed off to MS on a DNS lookup failure, but then I almost never touch IE outside of HTML testing purposes.
- Mozilla has a development team that cares about the end product
More ramblings from a zealot. I'm sure the IE programmers care about IE. They just dont feel the need to sit around and pat each other on the back in public message boards.
I'm sure the IE developers pat each other on the back all the time, but you won't see it since they don't have public mailing lists.
- Mozilla has site-specific image and cookie management
Internet privacy zones. From your top menu in IE6: tools -> internet options -> privacy -> click the edit button. Yep, it works in IE on a site by site basis.
That it does, though personally I prefer the format of Mozilla's privacy tools. Probably a familiarity thing.
- Mozilla is stable (close to 100%) and won't bring down the OS when it crashes
Just like IE6 (which hasnt ever crashed on me, even though I use it roughly 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the past few months)
Last time I used IE (5.5) it crashed several times a day (usually on malformed javascript or activex), taking the whole OS with it half the time. I haven't tried IE6 though.
I've been using the Mozilla nightlies, and I haven't had a crash since before the summer. Some really funky regressions like the expando url bar... but no crashes.
I put my browsers through HTML/Java/Flash/script hell though, so YMMV.