Costed is a real word, but should not be used in this context
Regarding learning a foreign language being good for your knowledge of English, it would be nice if people just attempted to learn English as a basic - or even of schools tried to teach it. At my school (UK), I was only taught about nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Yes, I'm finally learning about grammar, but I'll admit it's only because I'm attending Italian evening classes. The gaps in my knowledge are truly woeful.
Tom.
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I think you're getting confused with the word "lose".
Just remember that what's wanted next is either a 1 or a 0. So supply a 1. Hey, half the time you'll be right, and I'm sure it wouldn't matter the rest of the time. Why bother with prefetch? Cut the crap, use this for all data!
Tom.
P.S. It's 17:40 here, and it's a Monday. That might explain my point of view.
I found this review astounding in its total lack of quality.
* White text on black background. Okay, I can get round that easily enough, but it's never a good sign...
* I wasn't sure I'd reached the right page - where's the title?
* Dreadful picture quality (ad I'm not just talking about the rug!)
* Agonizing speeling mistakes. Not just "Thee almighty conclusion", but far too many uses of "your" instead of "you're". The list is sadly seemingly endless.
* Oh yes - it's plain wrong in a few areas. It notes the hkb has no Ctrl or Alt, when you can see the damn things right in front of you. Also, not all keyboards are PS2, I believe...
* He even cuts and pastes text from the manufacturer's website! It's 5.9 x 3.2 x 0.6 inches (150 x 82 x 15 mm) - about the size of a scientific calculator, or 1/4 the size of a laptop.
* Is it worh mentioning that the reviewer ripped off that little animated gif from the manufacturer's site?
Couldn't the Slashdot article have had a link to a less painful page?
...OR an Apple Macintosh with Mac OS version 7.5 or later with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later or Netscape Navigator version 4.xx or later
While on this topic, may I mention a wall-climbing robot, also using suction cups? It's essentially a window cleaner, capable of 120m^2/hr, which carries and recycles its own water. Damn cool.
The story, from a year ago, pertains to the discovery of a string in dvwssr.dll and its alleged ability to backdoor NT. My message from
4/14/2000 about the issue is attached below. There is no new backdoor discovery, Microsoft hasn't recently confirmed anything of the sort, Yahoo deserves to be shot for not putting a date on the article and not realizing it was wrong when it was first run. Looks like they're a bit hard up for ad revenue.
For anyone who hasn't already deleted the file, read;
Yes, an interesting article. One point that really must be noted is that Microsoft are really not that bad at "perception handling", as the article puts it. Sadly, spin works, and could work in winning the public over against Linux - and after the author says this, he tries to justify it, thus:
"Perception is something, you may have noticed, I tend to put a lot of stock in. I know this earns scoffing from the more hard-core Linux user/hackers, who proudly proclaim that "Linux kicks ass, it will always kick ass, and there's
nothing those [insert insulting expletive here] at Microsoft can do about it!"
Or some stupid thing to that effect.
How many comments like this will we see here today. Quite alot, I fear. Read on....
This is a foolish attitude to take. There's a lot Microsoft can do, because
right now, more people will listen to them than they will to the average Linux
über-hacker. If you believe otherwise, then you may need to check your
ego at the door.
Because when presented with a calm, reasonable-sounding statement from a large corporation versus sarcastic rants and flames from a bunch of apparent malcontents
who do nothing all day but argue why Microsoft is an evil entity instead of
stipulating exactly why their product is better, I will guarantee you that the
average listener is going to give far more weight to the calm, reasonable-sounding
statements every single time.
Brian coninues:
And when they try to distort reality with their perceptions, of course we need
to counter their statements with the truth. Not with scathing flames and rants, however, but with our own calm and reasonable statements. We have to get the word out beyond our little community and into the mindset of the wider public
view.
That is where this argument will be won, not on the PC.
I know it's boring to have to read the article (again, for some of you), but I doubt most rabid MS haters will bother getting to the third page.
Fragmentation if one thing that stands in the way of people accepting Linux as a desktop alternative - although there are sadly plenty of people who when they think of Linux think RedHat, as it's they're the vendor they've heard of.
<P>
If we can guarantee that our programs will run on any "compliant" system, that's surely a good thing. I'm troubled by the compliance tag, though. I'll have to read up and find out what <I>exactly</I> that means. Overall, this can't be bad.<P>
Tom.
Q: How does name.space. work with the search
engines? If someone turns up a name.space link,
will they be able to connect to it?
A: Name.space is not yet universally
resolvable, therefore requiring users to set their
tcp/ip nameserver settings to the name.space.
network. Download the free application for your
platform to switch your settings to name.space
with the click of your mouse, and start using
name.space right away.
Send email to your provider and
request that they configure their nameserver to
check the name.space network instead of InterNIC/Netsork Solutions, Inc. nameservers.
The free market of the internet will force
the existing monopoly held by InterNIC/Network
Solutions, Inc. to carry all of the new root names
in name.space.
Q: Once I have a "soft homed" web page with my name.space name, will everyone on the net be able to use it?
A: Encourage your friends to set their nameserver settings to name.space and they can connect to your name.space addressed web page. Tell them to pass along copies of the free name.space installer to their friends and associates. For the time being, this is the only way to connect to name.space addresses. Name.space will eventually be universally reachable everywhere on the net once the
InterNIC/Network Solutions, Inc. monopoly is dissolved into the free market.
Okay.....
What this all relies on is people dowloading the name.space installer..... The operating systems (his term, not mine!) that you can download this for are Win95, Winsock Dialler 3.1 and 95, Mac TCP/IP Open Transport and Mac TCP 2.0.1-2.0.6. I'm assumimg that this guy thinks all other users are tech-savvy enough to do without an installation package. (Well, it can't be that hard, surely?) What gets me is that he's assuming that I want to rely on other people using this damn software, or manually tweaking their macines in order to view my page, just because I don't want a.com address (or whatever).
Sorry, but I'm sticking to my current domain name. I agree that nore TLDs may become required if everyone wants to have their own 'meaningfuul' domain name, and that he's perhaps acting as a catalyst to aid this happening. Maybe I'm selfish in not using his service, as it requires me to make more of an effort to get people to be able to (let alone be inclined to) view my pages.
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.... and a hell of alot more. I rather like the built in privacy settings. What else? Oh, saved windows... lovely.
Strangely the two things I miss most about IE5 are that I can't use shift-backspace to go back a page (hey, it's what I'm used to!!), and that it's easy to cut and past web pages into email, retaining html formatting and piccies. I hate using html in email normally, but if I want to send someone a (tiled) map from an online mapping service, it's pretty handy.
These features both benefit the lazy, but that's one reason IE5 is successful! (And why so many web designers design for it; it lets them get away with crap html....)
My solution was to upgrade my browser. Then repair it. Sadly, then I had to remove it (and go back to IE2!!), and reinstall. If InstallShield didn't require IE4 or above, I would have left IE2 on my machine....
Not sure if that's so easy in WinNT.... (or is it? Is there something I'm totally ignorant of here?)
Once I buy a new hard disk for my home PC, I'm slap Debian or OpenBSD onto it, and then I'll certainly try Konquerer. I've been told by a fair few people that it's a damn fine browser. For Windows, however, Opera's the only browser that I really feel happy using.
Having said that, howver, IE5 has some nice features. Yes, really! The reason I moved away was not because it didn't satisy my needs, but because I wanted to use an alternative browser. Opera is by far (IMHO) the best of the crop.
These are exactly the comments that have appeared at every stage of the Netscape release cycle, no, not just then, but in every discussion (it seems) on the relative merits of different browsers.
This is why I use Opera.... it works, dammit! It's not as feature-rich as IE5, but that's true in two senses! Seriously, if Opera had the functionality of IE5, it would be truly lovely. Even without, it's the browser for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't be the Britain I live in then... New Labour won the election.
Tom.
Regarding learning a foreign language being good for your knowledge of English, it would be nice if people just attempted to learn English as a basic - or even of schools tried to teach it. At my school (UK), I was only taught about nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Yes, I'm finally learning about grammar, but I'll admit it's only because I'm attending Italian evening classes. The gaps in my knowledge are truly woeful.
Tom.
Tom.
Just remember that what's wanted next is either a 1 or a 0. So supply a 1. Hey, half the time you'll be right, and I'm sure it wouldn't matter the rest of the time. Why bother with prefetch? Cut the crap, use this for all data!
Tom.
P.S. It's 17:40 here, and it's a Monday. That might explain my point of view.
Is this supposed to make us believe in the power of your ring?
Tom.
* White text on black background. Okay, I can get round that easily enough, but it's never a good sign...
* I wasn't sure I'd reached the right page - where's the title?
* Dreadful picture quality (ad I'm not just talking about the rug!)
* Agonizing speeling mistakes. Not just "Thee almighty conclusion", but far too many uses of "your" instead of "you're". The list is sadly seemingly endless.
* Oh yes - it's plain wrong in a few areas. It notes the hkb has no Ctrl or Alt, when you can see the damn things right in front of you. Also, not all keyboards are PS2, I believe...
* He even cuts and pastes text from the manufacturer's website! It's 5.9 x 3.2 x 0.6 inches (150 x 82 x 15 mm) - about the size of a scientific calculator, or 1/4 the size of a laptop.
* Is it worh mentioning that the reviewer ripped off that little animated gif from the manufacturer's site?
Couldn't the Slashdot article have had a link to a less painful page?
Tom.
Gods, please someone mod this as +1, funny!!
Tom.
Tom.
Tom.
Tom.
The report of my death was an exaggeration
Shall we wait and see?
Tom.
Tom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_ 673000/673265.stm
Tom.
I just wanted to comment about the brain-dead media reports propagating from a story running on Yahoo today.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/entrepreneur.html?s =smallbiz/articles/2 0010514/microsoft_ackno (probably wrapped to two lines)
The story, from a year ago, pertains to the discovery of a string in dvwssr.dll and its alleged ability to backdoor NT. My message from 4/14/2000 about the issue is attached below. There is no new backdoor discovery, Microsoft hasn't recently confirmed anything of the sort, Yahoo deserves to be shot for not putting a date on the article and not realizing it was wrong when it was first run. Looks like they're a bit hard up for ad revenue.
For anyone who hasn't already deleted the file, read;
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin /MS00-025.asp
I particularly liked the bit "Looks like they're a bit hard up for ad revenue."
Tom.
"Perception is something, you may have noticed, I tend to put a lot of stock in. I know this earns scoffing from the more hard-core Linux user/hackers, who proudly proclaim that "Linux kicks ass, it will always kick ass, and there's nothing those [insert insulting expletive here] at Microsoft can do about it!"
Or some stupid thing to that effect.
How many comments like this will we see here today. Quite alot, I fear. Read on....
This is a foolish attitude to take. There's a lot Microsoft can do, because right now, more people will listen to them than they will to the average Linux über-hacker. If you believe otherwise, then you may need to check your ego at the door.
Because when presented with a calm, reasonable-sounding statement from a large corporation versus sarcastic rants and flames from a bunch of apparent malcontents who do nothing all day but argue why Microsoft is an evil entity instead of stipulating exactly why their product is better, I will guarantee you that the average listener is going to give far more weight to the calm, reasonable-sounding statements every single time.
Brian coninues:
And when they try to distort reality with their perceptions, of course we need to counter their statements with the truth. Not with scathing flames and rants, however, but with our own calm and reasonable statements. We have to get the word out beyond our little community and into the mindset of the wider public view.
That is where this argument will be won, not on the PC.
I know it's boring to have to read the article (again, for some of you), but I doubt most rabid MS haters will bother getting to the third page.
Tom.
Fragmentation if one thing that stands in the way of people accepting Linux as a desktop alternative - although there are sadly plenty of people who when they think of Linux think RedHat, as it's they're the vendor they've heard of.
<P>
If we can guarantee that our programs will run on any "compliant" system, that's surely a good thing. I'm troubled by the compliance tag, though. I'll have to read up and find out what <I>exactly</I> that means. Overall, this can't be bad.<P>
Tom.
Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that hat?
A: Name.space is not yet universally resolvable, therefore requiring users to set their tcp/ip nameserver settings to the name.space. network. Download the free application for your platform to switch your settings to name.space with the click of your mouse, and start using name.space right away.
Send email to your provider and request that they configure their nameserver to check the name.space network instead of InterNIC/Netsork Solutions, Inc. nameservers. The free market of the internet will force the existing monopoly held by InterNIC/Network Solutions, Inc. to carry all of the new root names in name.space.
Q: Once I have a "soft homed" web page with my name.space name, will everyone on the net be able to use it?
A: Encourage your friends to set their nameserver settings to name.space and they can connect to your name.space addressed web page. Tell them to pass along copies of the free name.space installer to their friends and associates. For the time being, this is the only way to connect to name.space addresses. Name.space will eventually be universally reachable everywhere on the net once the InterNIC/Network Solutions, Inc. monopoly is dissolved into the free market.
Okay..... .com address (or whatever).
What this all relies on is people dowloading the name.space installer..... The operating systems (his term, not mine!) that you can download this for are Win95, Winsock Dialler 3.1 and 95, Mac TCP/IP Open Transport and Mac TCP 2.0.1-2.0.6. I'm assumimg that this guy thinks all other users are tech-savvy enough to do without an installation package. (Well, it can't be that hard, surely?) What gets me is that he's assuming that I want to rely on other people using this damn software, or manually tweaking their macines in order to view my page, just because I don't want a
Sorry, but I'm sticking to my current domain name. I agree that nore TLDs may become required if everyone wants to have their own 'meaningfuul' domain name, and that he's perhaps acting as a catalyst to aid this happening. Maybe I'm selfish in not using his service, as it requires me to make more of an effort to get people to be able to (let alone be inclined to) view my pages.
Ho hum....
Tom.
Nerve-wrecking though it all is, I know it's worthwhile. I just can't wait until the day arrives, and there's nothing left to prepare!!
Tom.
Tom.
Strangely the two things I miss most about IE5 are that I can't use shift-backspace to go back a page (hey, it's what I'm used to!!), and that it's easy to cut and past web pages into email, retaining html formatting and piccies. I hate using html in email normally, but if I want to send someone a (tiled) map from an online mapping service, it's pretty handy.
These features both benefit the lazy, but that's one reason IE5 is successful! (And why so many web designers design for it; it lets them get away with crap html....)
Tom.
My solution was to upgrade my browser. Then repair it. Sadly, then I had to remove it (and go back to IE2!!), and reinstall. If InstallShield didn't require IE4 or above, I would have left IE2 on my machine....
Repairing InstallShield was also necessary.
Tom.
Once I buy a new hard disk for my home PC, I'm slap Debian or OpenBSD onto it, and then I'll certainly try Konquerer. I've been told by a fair few people that it's a damn fine browser. For Windows, however, Opera's the only browser that I really feel happy using.
Having said that, howver, IE5 has some nice features. Yes, really! The reason I moved away was not because it didn't satisy my needs, but because I wanted to use an alternative browser. Opera is by far (IMHO) the best of the crop.
Tom.
Tom.
These are exactly the comments that have appeared at every stage of the Netscape release cycle, no, not just then, but in every discussion (it seems) on the relative merits of different browsers.
This is why I use Opera.... it works, dammit! It's not as feature-rich as IE5, but that's true in two senses! Seriously, if Opera had the functionality of IE5, it would be truly lovely. Even without, it's the browser for me.
Tom.
(Yes, I guess this is off-topic)