Someone could buy the Netscape brand name and donate it to the Mozilla foundation.
Does it really matter any more? In many ways Firefox is the phoenix of the ashes of Netscape. They took something that lost direction, was bloated in the wrongs ways and made it what it should have been. The other problem was that AOL just didn't seem to understand what to do with the Netscape brand and didn't seem like they wanted to care. If they were smart they would have taken the all important core and made it the base of the AOL client, which would have then been easy to port, but for me AOL no longer matters, with so many better alternatives available - I have even convinced my parents to start migrating, and they are now with free.fr, but the only thing preventing them from abandoning their account all together are people still using their AOL address and even for that they use Apple's mail client.
Are NSF files sound waves (like WAV, AIFF) or note tracks (like MIDI and MOD)? I am curious, since I am curious to know whether MP3 or MIDI would be the better destination format.
Because I do support for Macs and I am totally in the dark on how to avoid getting the short end of the stick talking to the lower end people (which has unfortunately happened in my past experiences).
You need to remember that non-standard request sometimes get handled badly is because they are non-standard. Support staff are usually trained for the most usual set of requests and anything that could get missed by your run of the mill 'lower end' person would probably warrant a confirmation from their manager. I would probably approach this by telling the guy that since you realise that it is an unusual request that you just want to make the procedure is right.
Clearly a fantasy story because anyone really wanting to design a powerful fast car and put a supercomputer with AI in wouldn't be using a Mustang. Heck, I would go with something like the Mazda RX8. It at least looks sporty and in some ways quite similar to the original KITT. Of course, it isn't American so I'll no doubt get modded down by y'all.....
You also need to ask yourself whether those extra air-foils at the back are really necessary and not simply extra drag. I don't know, but the new KITT makes me think more of KARR than anything else. If the Cylon style back and fro lights are missing, then this is no KITT.
Stop with the kludges and force the developers along. 32 bit came with the 386 era and lasted a good while - a very good run indeed. 64 bit would last beyond our lifetimes anyway, I doubt we will even come close to the limits of addressable memory there (hopefully this isn't the new 640k comment) -- so there is no point in stalling it indefinitely.
But since the "issues" he had with Apple, the content on thinksecret wasn't really much beyond what someone with an Apple Developer Connect membership could access. To many articles on the latest seed of this or that. Before that ThinkSecret sometimes had some real gems every now and then (and was plain wrong lots of times also)
In addition to this there are still plenty of other sites providing this sort of information, including appleinsider.com
Whoever decided that sending mail by using squirrels as couriers through these series of tubes is just damn wrong. Even worse, who are these sick bastards poisoning squirrels?
The problem first started when they missed the fact that tubes were designed with mice and hamsters in mind.
Agreed, although not all the "vulnerabilities" listed in this so-called study do ship from Apple, many are third-party applications that just run on OS X. Also, OS X includes a lot of cool tools with their OS, because they are free. 99.99% of the time, these tools are never used, let alone exposed to the outside world.
Certainly, but it providing these applications as core part of their OS, surely Apple is in charge of the QA. If certain parts of the OS depend on this, then they should do the necessary QA. When a flaw is discovered they have two options, either get the latest patch from the module developers, or if it is not available work with them to ensure that a fix is provided. A bundled, but separate application does not follow the same rules, as it is usually described as non-essential addon.
For me this is like a car manufacturer, which discovers that the tires have a design flaw, after it gets to the customer. Sure it might not be directly their fault, but they are responsible for ensuring the fix gets to the customer. It doesn't matter if it is their problem or their suppliers problem, what matters is it gets to the customer.
Why I do get the feeling that its "one step forwards and two steps back" with the Orion program, when compared with the shuttle? This thing only looks good for docking with the space station and any notion of servicing satellites is thrown out of the window.
2.4 Ghz is one of the most badly managed spectrum for consumers. You have phone systems that take out access points, access points that take out phone systems, and no idea at all which of those systems will interact badly with another.
I had always imagined this was over blown until I switched on my cordless telephone (not mobile phone) next to my computer, which was in wireless mode. The connection dropped and I thought it was my pesky router playing up again. A bit more testing showed my cordless phone was the cause of the issue. I had cord-based phone to fall back to, but this certainly shows the issues of different and device types sharing the same part of the spectrum.
If you are interested in playing with IPv6 and are behind a NAT, then Teredo provides the necessary solution. There are certainly other 6to4 solutions, but they usually fail behind a NAT or require that your local gateway lets through certain packet types. Windows Vista already supports Teredo, from what I understand, but for other platforms an implemenation is available in the form of Miredo. Its GPL licensed, for those who care.
A question for those who know:
- Upgrading an IPv4 CISCO network device, such as router, gateway or firewall, is this: 100% software, hardware upgrade and are does CISCO charge you for the pleasure:
- Other than Apple Airport Extreme, are there any IPv6 ready ADSL/Cable routers?
IPv6 isn't that complicated to set up, especially since most recent desktops support IPv6 out of the box, though that doesn't mean that there aren't a few hurdles, including:
- Upgrading routers, firewalls et al to support IPv6.
- Some application software still not being fully IPv6 ready.
- A large number of sites still don't have IPv6 DNS addresses
I think the problem, like many government proposals is not the recommendation, but the lack of research guidelines or instructions on how to make the infrastructure IPv6 compliant or what it means to be IPv6 compliant. For example is simply having a 6to4 gateway considered IPv6 compliance.
All this said and done, has anyone here on/. actually upgraded a network to be IPv6 compliant and what can you tell us about real world experience.
If its decided to be excluded from Wikipedia, maybe a sister site could be set up just for this.
For many people the inclusion of a proof could be far beyond their understanding, yet at the same time for some other people this is very useful. I believe that main content of Wikipedia should be easily accessible, in terms of explanation, to the average person and that specialist resources should help provide the harder more specialist content.
Given that only Windows could handle PlayForSure, and that Microsoft was unlikely to let any other OS developers have the necessary licenses, maybe this is clearer. Maybe its clearer that this form of lock-in requires Microsoft Windows. Either way, its DRM and its nasty.
Mostly how they run it is have some crazy sys admins throw chairs around.
I thought that was the QA process. Then again I can imagine Microsoft using chair names as the code names to their products:
- Cogswell
- Caquetoire
- Glastonbury
- Morris And no I don't know chair names by heart. I am computer geek, not a chair geek, since that would be Balmer;)
Let's get rational for a second here; the ISP is trying to inform you you're reaching your limit, so you don't overshoot it and start having to pay extra.
This I don't object to. What I object to is that they are doing it without the permission of the user. In fact some companies already do this by putting the content within an inner frame, to indicate they are surfing an external site - annoying as heck, but they do it, and no it does not make it any more right. Alternative options would be:
- A widget that the user can put on their desktop (think Yahoo Widgets or Dashboard)
- A pop-up indicator - using something like Growl on the Mac
- An e-mail
- A Firefox or IE add-on
Whichever way the user should decide how they want to get notified when they exceed their limit.
Instead of using software, I wonder whether an IDE or SATA connector could be developed that encrypts and decrypts the data going to and from the drive. Basically your organisation would enter a key into the connector and the encryption would happen without the OS knowing. If you remove the drive then you wouldn't be able to use the drive without the connector.
I am just curious as to what the advantages of Ogg are over AAC? AAC is already part of MPEG4 and has plenty of associated implementations, including a number of open source ones. Other than the fact it was developed outside the realm of a large corportation, what is Ogg gving me?
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as an American, I hope this never spreads to Canada but judging by recent events, it may indeed happen anyway...
Bush meet mini Bush, uh Harper. Quite frankly beyond the oil rich Alberta, Harper doesn't seem to reflect the Canadian way.
What's a recursive dream meant to prepare you for? The next level of recursion or that I am living in the matrix?
Someone could buy the Netscape brand name and donate it to the Mozilla foundation.
Does it really matter any more? In many ways Firefox is the phoenix of the ashes of Netscape. They took something that lost direction, was bloated in the wrongs ways and made it what it should have been. The other problem was that AOL just didn't seem to understand what to do with the Netscape brand and didn't seem like they wanted to care. If they were smart they would have taken the all important core and made it the base of the AOL client, which would have then been easy to port, but for me AOL no longer matters, with so many better alternatives available - I have even convinced my parents to start migrating, and they are now with free.fr, but the only thing preventing them from abandoning their account all together are people still using their AOL address and even for that they use Apple's mail client.
I'd ban any dog under 14 inches high...
Dogs that small either look like samplers or hair with teeth.
Are NSF files sound waves (like WAV, AIFF) or note tracks (like MIDI and MOD)? I am curious, since I am curious to know whether MP3 or MIDI would be the better destination format.
Because I do support for Macs and I am totally in the dark on how to avoid getting the short end of the stick talking to the lower end people (which has unfortunately happened in my past experiences).
You need to remember that non-standard request sometimes get handled badly is because they are non-standard. Support staff are usually trained for the most usual set of requests and anything that could get missed by your run of the mill 'lower end' person would probably warrant a confirmation from their manager. I would probably approach this by telling the guy that since you realise that it is an unusual request that you just want to make the procedure is right.
FYI: http://www.macworld.com/article/52416/2006/08/leo64.html
Of course you will need a 64-bit processor such as the Core 2 Duo or the Xeon.
Clearly a fantasy story because anyone really wanting to design a powerful fast car and put a supercomputer with AI in wouldn't be using a Mustang. Heck, I would go with something like the Mazda RX8. It at least looks sporty and in some ways quite similar to the original KITT. Of course, it isn't American so I'll no doubt get modded down by y'all.....
You also need to ask yourself whether those extra air-foils at the back are really necessary and not simply extra drag. I don't know, but the new KITT makes me think more of KARR than anything else. If the Cylon style back and fro lights are missing, then this is no KITT.
Does anyone know if Canada has announced anything of the sorts? While I realise this is USA regulation, some airways stuff is cross-border.
Stop with the kludges and force the developers along. 32 bit came with the 386 era and lasted a good while - a very good run indeed. 64 bit would last beyond our lifetimes anyway, I doubt we will even come close to the limits of addressable memory there (hopefully this isn't the new 640k comment) -- so there is no point in stalling it indefinitely.
In the other two camps there is Linux and MacOS X. MacOS X Leopard is 64-bit on 64-bit intel processors and will even support 32-bit libraries and executables. As an added bonus the multi-architecture support in the MACH binaries will allow for 4-way universal binaries, as a http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2007/11/14/4-Way-Universal-Binary-MySQL-for-Leopard-Configuration.html">tid-bit on building MySQL attests.
The point is that support is possible, but Microsoft just needs to get its house in order.
BTW can 64-bit Linux support execution of 32-bit user-space binaries?
But since the "issues" he had with Apple, the content on thinksecret wasn't really much beyond what someone with an Apple Developer Connect membership could access. To many articles on the latest seed of this or that. Before that ThinkSecret sometimes had some real gems every now and then (and was plain wrong lots of times also)
In addition to this there are still plenty of other sites providing this sort of information, including appleinsider.com
Whoever decided that sending mail by using squirrels as couriers through these series of tubes is just damn wrong. Even worse, who are these sick bastards poisoning squirrels?
The problem first started when they missed the fact that tubes were designed with mice and hamsters in mind.
Agreed, although not all the "vulnerabilities" listed in this so-called study do ship from Apple, many are third-party applications that just run on OS X. Also, OS X includes a lot of cool tools with their OS, because they are free. 99.99% of the time, these tools are never used, let alone exposed to the outside world.
Certainly, but it providing these applications as core part of their OS, surely Apple is in charge of the QA. If certain parts of the OS depend on this, then they should do the necessary QA. When a flaw is discovered they have two options, either get the latest patch from the module developers, or if it is not available work with them to ensure that a fix is provided. A bundled, but separate application does not follow the same rules, as it is usually described as non-essential addon.
For me this is like a car manufacturer, which discovers that the tires have a design flaw, after it gets to the customer. Sure it might not be directly their fault, but they are responsible for ensuring the fix gets to the customer. It doesn't matter if it is their problem or their suppliers problem, what matters is it gets to the customer.
I lost a few gig of SD memory in a keyboard one time by accident. So, we're actually moving backwards in size.
Even easier with Micro-SD.
Why I do get the feeling that its "one step forwards and two steps back" with the Orion program, when compared with the shuttle? This thing only looks good for docking with the space station and any notion of servicing satellites is thrown out of the window.
2.4 Ghz is one of the most badly managed spectrum for consumers. You have phone systems that take out access points, access points that take out phone systems, and no idea at all which of those systems will interact badly with another.
I had always imagined this was over blown until I switched on my cordless telephone (not mobile phone) next to my computer, which was in wireless mode. The connection dropped and I thought it was my pesky router playing up again. A bit more testing showed my cordless phone was the cause of the issue. I had cord-based phone to fall back to, but this certainly shows the issues of different and device types sharing the same part of the spectrum.
If you are interested in playing with IPv6 and are behind a NAT, then Teredo provides the necessary solution. There are certainly other 6to4 solutions, but they usually fail behind a NAT or require that your local gateway lets through certain packet types. Windows Vista already supports Teredo, from what I understand, but for other platforms an implemenation is available in the form of Miredo. Its GPL licensed, for those who care.
A question for those who know:
- Upgrading an IPv4 CISCO network device, such as router, gateway or firewall, is this: 100% software, hardware upgrade and are does CISCO charge you for the pleasure:
- Other than Apple Airport Extreme, are there any IPv6 ready ADSL/Cable routers?
IPv6 isn't that complicated to set up, especially since most recent desktops support IPv6 out of the box, though that doesn't mean that there aren't a few hurdles, including:
/. actually upgraded a network to be IPv6 compliant and what can you tell us about real world experience.
- Upgrading routers, firewalls et al to support IPv6.
- Some application software still not being fully IPv6 ready.
- A large number of sites still don't have IPv6 DNS addresses
I think the problem, like many government proposals is not the recommendation, but the lack of research guidelines or instructions on how to make the infrastructure IPv6 compliant or what it means to be IPv6 compliant. For example is simply having a 6to4 gateway considered IPv6 compliance.
All this said and done, has anyone here on
If its decided to be excluded from Wikipedia, maybe a sister site could be set up just for this.
For many people the inclusion of a proof could be far beyond their understanding, yet at the same time for some other people this is very useful. I believe that main content of Wikipedia should be easily accessible, in terms of explanation, to the average person and that specialist resources should help provide the harder more specialist content.
Given that only Windows could handle PlayForSure, and that Microsoft was unlikely to let any other OS developers have the necessary licenses, maybe this is clearer. Maybe its clearer that this form of lock-in requires Microsoft Windows. Either way, its DRM and its nasty.
Mostly how they run it is have some crazy sys admins throw chairs around.
;)
I thought that was the QA process. Then again I can imagine Microsoft using chair names as the code names to their products:
- Cogswell
- Caquetoire
- Glastonbury
- Morris
And no I don't know chair names by heart. I am computer geek, not a chair geek, since that would be Balmer
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs
Let's get rational for a second here; the ISP is trying to inform you you're reaching your limit, so you don't overshoot it and start having to pay extra.
This I don't object to. What I object to is that they are doing it without the permission of the user. In fact some companies already do this by putting the content within an inner frame, to indicate they are surfing an external site - annoying as heck, but they do it, and no it does not make it any more right. Alternative options would be:
- A widget that the user can put on their desktop (think Yahoo Widgets or Dashboard)
- A pop-up indicator - using something like Growl on the Mac
- An e-mail
- A Firefox or IE add-on
Whichever way the user should decide how they want to get notified when they exceed their limit.
Instead of using software, I wonder whether an IDE or SATA connector could be developed that encrypts and decrypts the data going to and from the drive. Basically your organisation would enter a key into the connector and the encryption would happen without the OS knowing. If you remove the drive then you wouldn't be able to use the drive without the connector.
I am just curious as to what the advantages of Ogg are over AAC? AAC is already part of MPEG4 and has plenty of associated implementations, including a number of open source ones. Other than the fact it was developed outside the realm of a large corportation, what is Ogg gving me?