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I personally have the middle mouse button mapped to "open new tab" and have checked "load links in the background". This lets me spawn new tabs for potentially interesting things while I keep reading the original page.
Actually, Q is under my left ring finger, and X is a big stretch for my left index finger down to what the uninitiated call the "B" key. But those of you whose fingers move about 10 as far as mine in a given day just to type wouldn't know that. Dvorak rocks, and is available for dos, windows, macOS, linux, and many others. Or you could get a keyboard with a built-in hardware switch to use both qwerty and dvorak.
Mozilla's biggest problem with tabs is the tab set of homepages. It's wonderful and opens a dozen pages for me when I start mozilla. But when I want a new window, I don't want another dozen tabs to go with it - I usually want my customized google start page. So I'd love to see both a home set and a home page.
I agree completely, that sounds more like "portable" computer than "laptop" computer. It probably weighs 8 pounds too. Did you see the recent Consumer Reports article on laptops? The lightest one there was about twice the weight of my soon-to-arrive Toshiba Portege.
The other question is power. Sure, the thing will look great for an hour or so, but can it really stick through a 2.5 hour DVD? What about LotR or JFK?
SMG isn't bad looking but she had the poor sense to do that series of Revlon or whatever ads where she was PURPLE. I can't believe society, en masse, decided that being purple is sexy. It was really quite hideous. So that's ruined her beauty for me. But Alyson's still hot.
I know that's Score:5 Funny but there's a serious note here.
If a site is down, Mozilla could pretty easily grab the google cache instead. Or, if there's no google cache or if the cache matches the current page, check archive.org. Mozilla could auto-generate a page offering the user some options. Think about it - it would be the end of 404 errors. Instead of
404 The requested page could not be found.
you could get
The site you requested is currently down. Would you like to use Google's cache instead? I also have a snapshot of the page you requested from August 12, 2002 but older ones are available here.
If I have the choice between 2 products, one of which does everything I need, and one which does everything I need but costs money, the expensive one is worse. As a piece of software engineering it may be better but as a solution to a problem I have, it is worse.
One does not improve software by adding crap nobody needs. This is what leads to such catastrophes as MS Word, which will make toast and pet my dog, but won't let me left-justify my name and right-justify a date on the same line without using a fucking table! Word processor indeed. I use OO because it doesn't insist on re-spelling my words and changing capitalization and punctuation on me.
I'm not real sure on the $130 price, but until some used hardware sort of fell in my lap, I was seriously considering buying a copy, which would have been an academic version. I think they raised the prices, but I can't find the email they sent me about it, so my best recollection will have to stand.
What *I* say to that is that if VMware can't produce a better product than the OSS community can in their spare time, they don't deserve my $130. If they can't keep their product better, they don't deserve the younger generation's $130. If Plex86 takes off and it kills VMware, it won't "show other businesses that you can't make money developing software for Linux because someone will undercut you with a Free solution" but rather show them that you can't make money selling inferior software for Linux because someone will do it right, even if it's not you.
Why is it that a community that could be broadly characterized as having heavy libertarian leanings encompasses so many, like you, who are willing to set aside those ideals for your pet project? I love VMware as much as the next person - I just think it's so cool seeing Phoenix BIOS show up in a window - but that doesn't mean I'm willing to set aside the capitalist ideals of free commerce and competition just so it will survive. If the Plex86 group can put together a better product and are willing to give it away, they win. If it takes them 10 years, then VMware has 10 years to find a different business model or go under. Businesses fail all the time. That's the way it works. If you can't cut it, you die. Meanwhile, Plex86 gets better in competition with VMware; VMware gets better in competition with Plex, and I win no matter which approach works best.
I see lots of comments predicting doom and gloom for nVidia already. The GFFX has been somewhat of a disappointment, both for consumers and for NV - it's too slow, too hot, and too hard to make. nVidia is not going to go into bankruptcy because of this however - they will still sell a few and will work madly on the next generation aimed for smaller design rules and will learn from their mistakes this time around. The GFFX isn't the death knell for the company, it's just an unpleasant reminder of what minor manufacturing difficulties can do in a nasty business like video card manufacture. They're already hard at work on the next-gen part, and I'm sure they've learned a lot with this one.
Meanwhile ATI will enjoy higher profits and will have a bit of breathing room. Hopefully, they will use this time to extend their product offerings viz the R350 core, continue pouring money into driver development, and keep working on R400 or whatever their next-gen core ends up being called. In any event 6-9 months from now we will see these next-generation parts coming to market, and they will be just that much better.
Sun isn't about raw CPU power. For that we have POWER and x86. Sun is about massive scaling. Sure, 1 POWER4 or P4 or Athlon beats an Ultrasparc. And 8 USIIIs lose out to 8 POWER4s or Xeons or Hammer CPUs. But Intel and AMD drop off at about 8P systems (though ItaniumII can handle larger systems, and Opteron can scale past 8P with a HT bridge), and the POWER architecture scales to hundreds of processors. Sun though can pack a thousand chips in a single system image, with plans to scale to 4096 (IIRC) within the next 2 years.
I'm sure Sun would love to have a high-performance CPU to field against massive clusters being deployed for highly parallelizable tasks such as rendering, but the fact is that's not where their strengths lie. Huge tasks which cannot be efficiently split are what Sun is good at, tasks where superb scalability in terms of both CPU power and memory are an absolute must.
For more, read Ace's Hardware's excellent volume multiprocessor articles: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Actually, I'm surprised at the lack of laptops in class. The CS building here has wireless, as do the unions and a half-dozen other buildings on campus, but even in the hard-core CS/ECE classes there are only 1-2 people with laptops. I would think it would be very useful to call up your CPU design while the professor is talking about different FP divider circuits and have a look.
So try to convince them you don't have a phone. Trust me, it's pretty funny if you can play it straight.
Random companies asking for your phone number are pretty incredulous when you tell them you don't have a phone, but when it's the phone company and they're the ones calling you, they get really confused.
Yes. Microsoft is prepared to burn through $2 billion on the Xbox project. Though this is double the initial estimates of their losses, I don't think we can discount the Xbox just yet.
Windows 1.x and 2.x were unusable; win3.x barely usabe (arguably, not an improvement over DOS); win95 couldn't hold a candle to OS/2. But look where Windows is now. Ditto with Office. There was a time when Quattro pro got used. When this little company called Borland had an office suite with the very nice ami pro in it. When you could still buy WordPerfect. Again - look what's happened now. Console gaming is a big enough market to justifi some risk - who's to say whether $2 billion is too much or not?
While I appreciate that science for its own sake isn't entirely a waste of time, money, talent, etc. I can't help but wonder what posessed these people to study such a thing. As an energy source, I'm forced to wonder what the point is. I mean, the effort that went into this could (imho) have been better spent designing robot-serviceable PV panel arrays and/or securing funding to start building. Granted, there's the problem of energy distribution, and room-temp superconductors are still way too expensive, but that shouldn't stop someone from working on the production side.
I suspect the R&D effort would be pretty minimal and the biggest hurdle would be funding. Starting a solar power plant is really expensive, but it should be pretty low-risk and high-profit since ongoing expenses would be virtually nil (repairs, and a few people to monitor things). Can someone more knowledgeable about the industry explain to me why nobody has paved over a few square miles of Nevada desert with solar panels yet?
Jesus man! You're expecting these words to average 16 characters?
You do realize that here in the US, our words average about 4 letters. We don't even use the word characters anymore. You know, like, short words, w00t and w0rd and such.
My longest passwords are under 20 characters long, but even if I told you that a given password were exactly 12 characters long, you would have 94^12 = 4.75x10^23 possible passwords. Checking a trillion passwords per second, you'd burn through the problem in a mere 15,000 years.
There's no need for a 70+ character password. Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and if the password is stronger than the encryption, you're golden.
Really? Fabulous! As any IT professional knows, adding more management makes an organization more efficient and focused, which is just what we want for the RIAA right now. I'm all in favor of Rosen being replaced by 7 highly-paid execs.
Spam filters seek to classify emails as spam/nonspam based on differences in the emails. The spammers however have absolute control over the content of their emails, so such methods are doomed to a life of one-step-ahead. There is one characteristic of spam which can never be changed by the spammer: spam is computer-generated and mass-mailed. Legit emails are not.
My idea is this: The system maintains an initially empty whitelist. When mail is received from a sender not on the whitelist, autoreply with a message explaining the situation and requesting an email back whose first line or subject contains a random word or phrase from the dictionary. Human beings will grumble, respond, and get added to the whitelist. Spammers won't give your email the personal attention it needs to get past, so you remain blissfully unaware of it.
I've found that a combination of whitelisting and blacklisting are extremely effective. The address I give out to companies I order from online is whitelisted - those companies that regularly send me spam don't get on it and those who send me order confirmations and UPS tracking numbers do. My other addresses have blacklists covering huge swaths of the namespace, such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Hotmail, and the like. At last count there are 3 exceptions to those blanket condemnations. Of the 1000-2000 spams/month I receive, fewer than 1 a day get through. Granted, 97% isn't nearly as impressive as 99.75%, but it's a whole lot easier.
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There are preferences for tabs. Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Tabbed Browsing
I personally have the middle mouse button mapped to "open new tab" and have checked "load links in the background". This lets me spawn new tabs for potentially interesting things while I keep reading the original page.
Brain fart. Why was I comparing Q and X?!? The W key is in the bottom row under the right middle finger, where the QWERTY , key is.
Actually, Q is under my left ring finger, and X is a big stretch for my left index finger down to what the uninitiated call the "B" key. But those of you whose fingers move about 10 as far as mine in a given day just to type wouldn't know that. Dvorak rocks, and is available for dos, windows, macOS, linux, and many others. Or you could get a keyboard with a built-in hardware switch to use both qwerty and dvorak.
Mozilla's biggest problem with tabs is the tab set of homepages. It's wonderful and opens a dozen pages for me when I start mozilla. But when I want a new window, I don't want another dozen tabs to go with it - I usually want my customized google start page. So I'd love to see both a home set and a home page.
Heh - beat me to it.
I agree completely, that sounds more like "portable" computer than "laptop" computer. It probably weighs 8 pounds too. Did you see the recent Consumer Reports article on laptops? The lightest one there was about twice the weight of my soon-to-arrive Toshiba Portege.
The other question is power. Sure, the thing will look great for an hour or so, but can it really stick through a 2.5 hour DVD? What about LotR or JFK?
You have to know how to spell "Al Gore" and "dense wave-division multiplexing" and every word in RFC 1180? What's the prize for winning?
Unless you're one of the 5 women going there...
Yup. Alyson Hannigan is gorgeous.
SMG isn't bad looking but she had the poor sense to do that series of Revlon or whatever ads where she was PURPLE. I can't believe society, en masse, decided that being purple is sexy. It was really quite hideous. So that's ruined her beauty for me. But Alyson's still hot.
I know that's Score:5 Funny but there's a serious note here.
If a site is down, Mozilla could pretty easily grab the google cache instead. Or, if there's no google cache or if the cache matches the current page, check archive.org. Mozilla could auto-generate a page offering the user some options. Think about it - it would be the end of 404 errors. Instead of
404 The requested page could not be found.
you could get
The site you requested is currently down. Would you like to use Google's cache instead? I also have a snapshot of the page you requested from August 12, 2002 but older ones are available here.
> Mac OS X: because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows.
Heh. More like "because making user-friendly Unix is easier than making unix-sturdy MacOS".
> Uh, they want to know if people entering the US asked for meals without pork...
What happens if you're already here and you ask for government without pork?
If I have the choice between 2 products, one of which does everything I need, and one which does everything I need but costs money, the expensive one is worse. As a piece of software engineering it may be better but as a solution to a problem I have, it is worse.
One does not improve software by adding crap nobody needs. This is what leads to such catastrophes as MS Word, which will make toast and pet my dog, but won't let me left-justify my name and right-justify a date on the same line without using a fucking table! Word processor indeed. I use OO because it doesn't insist on re-spelling my words and changing capitalization and punctuation on me.
I'm not real sure on the $130 price, but until some used hardware sort of fell in my lap, I was seriously considering buying a copy, which would have been an academic version. I think they raised the prices, but I can't find the email they sent me about it, so my best recollection will have to stand.
What *I* say to that is that if VMware can't produce a better product than the OSS community can in their spare time, they don't deserve my $130. If they can't keep their product better, they don't deserve the younger generation's $130. If Plex86 takes off and it kills VMware, it won't "show other businesses that you can't make money developing software for Linux because someone will undercut you with a Free solution" but rather show them that you can't make money selling inferior software for Linux because someone will do it right, even if it's not you.
Why is it that a community that could be broadly characterized as having heavy libertarian leanings encompasses so many, like you, who are willing to set aside those ideals for your pet project? I love VMware as much as the next person - I just think it's so cool seeing Phoenix BIOS show up in a window - but that doesn't mean I'm willing to set aside the capitalist ideals of free commerce and competition just so it will survive. If the Plex86 group can put together a better product and are willing to give it away, they win. If it takes them 10 years, then VMware has 10 years to find a different business model or go under. Businesses fail all the time. That's the way it works. If you can't cut it, you die. Meanwhile, Plex86 gets better in competition with VMware; VMware gets better in competition with Plex, and I win no matter which approach works best.
I see lots of comments predicting doom and gloom for nVidia already. The GFFX has been somewhat of a disappointment, both for consumers and for NV - it's too slow, too hot, and too hard to make. nVidia is not going to go into bankruptcy because of this however - they will still sell a few and will work madly on the next generation aimed for smaller design rules and will learn from their mistakes this time around. The GFFX isn't the death knell for the company, it's just an unpleasant reminder of what minor manufacturing difficulties can do in a nasty business like video card manufacture. They're already hard at work on the next-gen part, and I'm sure they've learned a lot with this one.
Meanwhile ATI will enjoy higher profits and will have a bit of breathing room. Hopefully, they will use this time to extend their product offerings viz the R350 core, continue pouring money into driver development, and keep working on R400 or whatever their next-gen core ends up being called. In any event 6-9 months from now we will see these next-generation parts coming to market, and they will be just that much better.
Sun isn't about raw CPU power. For that we have POWER and x86. Sun is about massive scaling. Sure, 1 POWER4 or P4 or Athlon beats an Ultrasparc. And 8 USIIIs lose out to 8 POWER4s or Xeons or Hammer CPUs. But Intel and AMD drop off at about 8P systems (though ItaniumII can handle larger systems, and Opteron can scale past 8P with a HT bridge), and the POWER architecture scales to hundreds of processors. Sun though can pack a thousand chips in a single system image, with plans to scale to 4096 (IIRC) within the next 2 years.
I'm sure Sun would love to have a high-performance CPU to field against massive clusters being deployed for highly parallelizable tasks such as rendering, but the fact is that's not where their strengths lie. Huge tasks which cannot be efficiently split are what Sun is good at, tasks where superb scalability in terms of both CPU power and memory are an absolute must.
For more, read Ace's Hardware's excellent volume multiprocessor articles:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Nah; I'm commenting from class.
Actually, I'm surprised at the lack of laptops in class. The CS building here has wireless, as do the unions and a half-dozen other buildings on campus, but even in the hard-core CS/ECE classes there are only 1-2 people with laptops. I would think it would be very useful to call up your CPU design while the professor is talking about different FP divider circuits and have a look.
So try to convince them you don't have a phone. Trust me, it's pretty funny if you can play it straight.
Random companies asking for your phone number are pretty incredulous when you tell them you don't have a phone, but when it's the phone company and they're the ones calling you, they get really confused.
> You think they expected to lose $384 million?
Yes. Microsoft is prepared to burn through $2 billion on the Xbox project. Though this is double the initial estimates of their losses, I don't think we can discount the Xbox just yet.
Windows 1.x and 2.x were unusable; win3.x barely usabe (arguably, not an improvement over DOS); win95 couldn't hold a candle to OS/2. But look where Windows is now. Ditto with Office. There was a time when Quattro pro got used. When this little company called Borland had an office suite with the very nice ami pro in it. When you could still buy WordPerfect. Again - look what's happened now. Console gaming is a big enough market to justifi some risk - who's to say whether $2 billion is too much or not?
While I appreciate that science for its own sake isn't entirely a waste of time, money, talent, etc. I can't help but wonder what posessed these people to study such a thing. As an energy source, I'm forced to wonder what the point is. I mean, the effort that went into this could (imho) have been better spent designing robot-serviceable PV panel arrays and/or securing funding to start building. Granted, there's the problem of energy distribution, and room-temp superconductors are still way too expensive, but that shouldn't stop someone from working on the production side.
I suspect the R&D effort would be pretty minimal and the biggest hurdle would be funding. Starting a solar power plant is really expensive, but it should be pretty low-risk and high-profit since ongoing expenses would be virtually nil (repairs, and a few people to monitor things). Can someone more knowledgeable about the industry explain to me why nobody has paved over a few square miles of Nevada desert with solar panels yet?
Jesus man! You're expecting these words to average 16 characters?
You do realize that here in the US, our words average about 4 letters. We don't even use the word characters anymore. You know, like, short words, w00t and w0rd and such.
70+ characters is a bit insane. A huge bit insane.
26 lowercase letters
26 uppercase letters
10 digits
32 other characters
94 total.
My longest passwords are under 20 characters long, but even if I told you that a given password were exactly 12 characters long, you would have 94^12 = 4.75x10^23 possible passwords. Checking a trillion passwords per second, you'd burn through the problem in a mere 15,000 years.
There's no need for a 70+ character password. Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and if the password is stronger than the encryption, you're golden.
So buy a hyperthreaded P4.
Really? Fabulous! As any IT professional knows, adding more management makes an organization more efficient and focused, which is just what we want for the RIAA right now. I'm all in favor of Rosen being replaced by 7 highly-paid execs.
Spam filters seek to classify emails as spam/nonspam based on differences in the emails. The spammers however have absolute control over the content of their emails, so such methods are doomed to a life of one-step-ahead. There is one characteristic of spam which can never be changed by the spammer: spam is computer-generated and mass-mailed. Legit emails are not.
My idea is this: The system maintains an initially empty whitelist. When mail is received from a sender not on the whitelist, autoreply with a message explaining the situation and requesting an email back whose first line or subject contains a random word or phrase from the dictionary. Human beings will grumble, respond, and get added to the whitelist. Spammers won't give your email the personal attention it needs to get past, so you remain blissfully unaware of it.
I've found that a combination of whitelisting and blacklisting are extremely effective. The address I give out to companies I order from online is whitelisted - those companies that regularly send me spam don't get on it and those who send me order confirmations and UPS tracking numbers do. My other addresses have blacklists covering huge swaths of the namespace, such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Hotmail, and the like. At last count there are 3 exceptions to those blanket condemnations. Of the 1000-2000 spams/month I receive, fewer than 1 a day get through. Granted, 97% isn't nearly as impressive as 99.75%, but it's a whole lot easier.