... but they put up that big barricade to make it impossible. They tested it quite thoroughly by having Cletus attempt to circumvent the anti-dumping device and he was unable to. It's foolproof.s
OK, so an early flaw was that you could ram the barricade with your car allowing you to dump a silo full of pig manure, but they learned their lesson and fixed that.
So good luck Bell with dumping your "third-party ISPs" (whatever that is). There is simply no way you will be able to.
I prefer a "always do evil" philosophy. Sure some people may get mad at you and you may get bad PR etc. but "do no evil" is boring. "Do evil" is a great way to ensure that things stay interesting.
Think about it...
Where would Slashdot be if Microsoft was not an evil monopolistic corporation ?
Where would Slashdot be if the RIAA were not suing grandmothers and college students ?
Where would Slashdot be if Jack Thompson was not suing video game manufacturers ?
Where would Slashdot be if Creative released Vista drivers that work ?
You see, by being evil you effectively bring life to the Internet. Without evilness no one would have anything to bitch about and everyone would be too busy watching porn and looking up peach cobbler recipes. FUCK THAT!
DJs could also include people who are hired to play pop music at weddings.
Could also include radio DJs (although I would assume that they would already have special licenses since they're broadcasting and have been the biggest target of music licensing and copyright issues for the past century).
I did not RTFA so I don't know what type (types) the law applies to.
Parallelism mostly drives hits to static content. The websites that will benefit from browsers increasing the number of parallel connections are those that offer a large amount of static content on top of a dynamic page.
How many web sites do you know of that drive hits to hundreds of dynamic objects within the page ? Now how many sites do you know of that drive hits to static objects ?
Yes, there are some websites that load up portions of their site in iframes or via XMLHttpRequest in order to hit further dynamic objects. Some images may actually be passed through a dynamic script in order to serve dynamic images etc. but those sites need to consider the scalability of their applications carefully before implementing such features. Most sites have a single dynamic page that calls upon lots of static objects.
I know of many high-traffic sites that force increased parallelism onto browsers in order to speed up load times. They do this by hosting their static content across multiple sub-domains (which are often on the same physical server). So if you're hosting across 4 sub-domains you get 8 persistent connections that grab all of the static content instead of 2.
So I am of the belief that if increased parallelism is going to fry your server then you obviously had scalability issues that you should have addressed in the event of a traffic spike anyway.
I agree that specification recommendations should not be ignored without careful consideration. However, I think the jump from 2 to 6 makes a lot of sense after almost 10 years of adhering to the specification and I don't think that it was done without careful consideration. Web servers and bandwidth have both strongly moved forward, and that specific suggestion in the RFC was just that. A suggestion. In the context of 1999.
"The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, produces an intense, high-energy light that can pierce just about any material,"
Does anyone know where I can obtain one of these devices ?
I always thought they were just a novelty sold via mail order in Mad Magazines. Can't tell you how many times I've been disappointed. If this is the real deal then please...
Actually I have played baseball and I understand the game and it's rules and nuances quite well.
I still find it boring to watch and for the exact same reason that I enjoy playing Chess yet find Chess games to be boring to watch.
They take too long between plays and the entire game lasts far too long. Call it a short attention span if you must but it's actually a problem that I have with most sports, baseball just happens to be one of the worst.
I prefer seeing CONSTANT action. Tennis is a rare example of a sport that I enjoy watching because there are little or no timeouts. No interruptions. No long setups. It's just play and play and play until the game is over. I can get into it. With American Football, Hockey, Baseball etc. it's almost like constant commercial interruptions every couple of seconds.
Not to mention that baseball lasts 9 innings so the whole ordeal takes ages. Granted it's nowhere near as bad as Cricket (like someone else pointed out)... but then, as you may have guessed, I don't like Cricket either.
"This makes it much more difficult for an adversary to discover that you are using Freenet, let alone what you are doing with it."
Sure, that's all fine and dandy for the person who wants to conceal that he's using Freenet... but what about us stalkers and snoopers ? Where does that leave us ?
I tried it out, but I didn't find a single joke to be funny. Then it told me that it had enough data to start giving me personalized jokes tailored to my tastes so I proceeded. Yet I STILL didn't find a single joke to be funny.
After about 10 jokes all rated "Not Funny" I got the following message:
"WARNING: Jester is not very well suited for Slashdot moderators. Try reading some Voltaire instead ":\
I was once at a friend's BBQ and a lot of the other guests were really into sports and talking a lot about their various sporting events etc. I made a comment about how baseball was one of those sports that is fun to play but boring as hell to watch. One of the guys responded with, simply, "I disagree". To which I replied "You're right. It's pretty boring to play too." He wasn't very amused.
Talk about a great way to make an awkward social event even more awkward:(
I think it's pretty safe to assume that those computers don't meet Vista's minimum system requirements.
In fact, I thought that XP required 128MB of RAM with 256MB recommended. If those computers were running Windows 98 they could have 64MB RAM or less. I don't remember what Win2K's requirements were but obviously the machines are running it now.
I did not RTFA, so maybe it's more specific as to what hardware they were running on.
I pay $9.20 USD right now /.com domain. I think that $9 is what VERISIGN gets. Not what people actually pay.
Granted, I agree. If you can't afford $10 - $15 / YEAR for your domain then you're not getting much out of it. But then again, not all.com's are for-profit. Some people don't like that and think that.com should ONLY be for commercial entities, and I agree that's absolutely what it was designed for initially. Only problem is if you don't register a.com for your domain then a squatter will. And, unfortunately, unless your traffic consists mostly of tech-savvy users then the majority of your type-in traffic will hit the.com first.
The problem is that "lay-people" consider.com to be "it". And if you register "my-indie-band.org" some squatter WILL register "my-indie-band.com"... and when your fans go to look you up they'll type in the ".com" before the ".org".
Is it bullshit ? Yeah, absolutely. Is there much we can do about it ? Not really.
"Is this a possible cure for spam where its legal or the laws are inadequate?"
All this does is send an e-mail on your behalf to various organizations asking that you be placed on their internal do-not-call-list. By-law any company in Canada that engages in telemarketing must remove you from their call list when requested.
The ironic part is that the system actually sends out bulk e-mail in order to operate. Whether or not that is "SPAM" is open to interpretation.
Actually the first thing that I thought after reading the summary was that FF4 was going to be Internet Explorer.
I think everyone else hit the nail on the head. We originally used Phoenix because it WASN'T these things. It was a light, simple, fast, usable browser. Now they're talking about integrating it with the OS... isn't that something we've been complaining about with regards to IE for the last 10 years ?
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... but they put up that big barricade to make it impossible. They tested it quite thoroughly by having Cletus attempt to circumvent the anti-dumping device and he was unable to. It's foolproof.s
OK, so an early flaw was that you could ram the barricade with your car allowing you to dump a silo full of pig manure, but they learned their lesson and fixed that.
So good luck Bell with dumping your "third-party ISPs" (whatever that is). There is simply no way you will be able to.
I prefer a "always do evil" philosophy. Sure some people may get mad at you and you may get bad PR etc. but "do no evil" is boring. "Do evil" is a great way to ensure that things stay interesting.
Think about it...
Where would Slashdot be if Microsoft was not an evil monopolistic corporation ?
Where would Slashdot be if the RIAA were not suing grandmothers and college students ?
Where would Slashdot be if Jack Thompson was not suing video game manufacturers ?
Where would Slashdot be if Creative released Vista drivers that work ?
You see, by being evil you effectively bring life to the Internet. Without evilness no one would have anything to bitch about and everyone would be too busy watching porn and looking up peach cobbler recipes. FUCK THAT!
"(depends on what caused the crash - bad memory crashes everything)."
Absolutely 100% true.
The last time I forgot our anniversary my wife crashed my car right through our living room. EVERYTHING was ruined.
DJs could also include people who are hired to play pop music at weddings.
Could also include radio DJs (although I would assume that they would already have special licenses since they're broadcasting and have been the biggest target of music licensing and copyright issues for the past century).
I did not RTFA so I don't know what type (types) the law applies to.
Parallelism mostly drives hits to static content. The websites that will benefit from browsers increasing the number of parallel connections are those that offer a large amount of static content on top of a dynamic page.
How many web sites do you know of that drive hits to hundreds of dynamic objects within the page ? Now how many sites do you know of that drive hits to static objects ?
Yes, there are some websites that load up portions of their site in iframes or via XMLHttpRequest in order to hit further dynamic objects. Some images may actually be passed through a dynamic script in order to serve dynamic images etc. but those sites need to consider the scalability of their applications carefully before implementing such features. Most sites have a single dynamic page that calls upon lots of static objects.
I know of many high-traffic sites that force increased parallelism onto browsers in order to speed up load times. They do this by hosting their static content across multiple sub-domains (which are often on the same physical server). So if you're hosting across 4 sub-domains you get 8 persistent connections that grab all of the static content instead of 2.
So I am of the belief that if increased parallelism is going to fry your server then you obviously had scalability issues that you should have addressed in the event of a traffic spike anyway.
RFC 2616 was published in 1999.
I agree that specification recommendations should not be ignored without careful consideration. However, I think the jump from 2 to 6 makes a lot of sense after almost 10 years of adhering to the specification and I don't think that it was done without careful consideration. Web servers and bandwidth have both strongly moved forward, and that specific suggestion in the RFC was just that. A suggestion. In the context of 1999.
It's not me. I swear!
"The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, produces an intense, high-energy light that can pierce just about any material,"
...
Does anyone know where I can obtain one of these devices ?
I always thought they were just a novelty sold via mail order in Mad Magazines. Can't tell you how many times I've been disappointed. If this is the real deal then please
April Fools :)
"What happened to typical slashdot April Fool's Day?"
Why that *IS* the April Fools joke silly!
Everybody was waiting for their April Fools day jokes only to find no jokes. Hah, April Fools !
"The Internet will still be there when you get home."
... what if it isn't ?
But
My world would fall apart if I missed the next Obama Girl video. I can't risk it. Sorry.
"You can't break the laws of physics."
Prove it.
Actually I have played baseball and I understand the game and it's rules and nuances quite well.
... but then, as you may have guessed, I don't like Cricket either.
I still find it boring to watch and for the exact same reason that I enjoy playing Chess yet find Chess games to be boring to watch.
They take too long between plays and the entire game lasts far too long. Call it a short attention span if you must but it's actually a problem that I have with most sports, baseball just happens to be one of the worst.
I prefer seeing CONSTANT action. Tennis is a rare example of a sport that I enjoy watching because there are little or no timeouts. No interruptions. No long setups. It's just play and play and play until the game is over. I can get into it. With American Football, Hockey, Baseball etc. it's almost like constant commercial interruptions every couple of seconds.
Not to mention that baseball lasts 9 innings so the whole ordeal takes ages. Granted it's nowhere near as bad as Cricket (like someone else pointed out)
"This makes it much more difficult for an adversary to discover that you are using Freenet, let alone what you are doing with it."
... but what about us stalkers and snoopers ? Where does that leave us ?
:(
Sure, that's all fine and dandy for the person who wants to conceal that he's using Freenet
The humanity!
This can be considered a fatal geek prank under certain circumstances.
It also qualifies as sub-par humour.
"And the point?"
I think you may have just made it for me. You got mod points ?
I tried it out, but I didn't find a single joke to be funny. Then it told me that it had enough data to start giving me personalized jokes tailored to my tastes so I proceeded. Yet I STILL didn't find a single joke to be funny.
:\
After about 10 jokes all rated "Not Funny" I got the following message:
"WARNING: Jester is not very well suited for Slashdot moderators. Try reading some Voltaire instead "
I was once at a friend's BBQ and a lot of the other guests were really into sports and talking a lot about their various sporting events etc. I made a comment about how baseball was one of those sports that is fun to play but boring as hell to watch. One of the guys responded with, simply, "I disagree". To which I replied "You're right. It's pretty boring to play too." He wasn't very amused.
:(
Talk about a great way to make an awkward social event even more awkward
I think it's pretty safe to assume that those computers don't meet Vista's minimum system requirements.
In fact, I thought that XP required 128MB of RAM with 256MB recommended. If those computers were running Windows 98 they could have 64MB RAM or less. I don't remember what Win2K's requirements were but obviously the machines are running it now.
I did not RTFA, so maybe it's more specific as to what hardware they were running on.
"Should do quite nicely. Check back on this thread in a few hours - I'll bring the beers!"
What kind ?
And if you say a light North American lager I'm going to smite you in the name of the almighty beer lord!
Those damned bankers will get you every time. You really have to go over your loan agreements and read all the fine print carefully.
:(
R.I.P Wikileaks
May you pay off your debt and rise once again.
I pay $9.20 USD right now / .com domain. I think that $9 is what VERISIGN gets. Not what people actually pay.
.com's are for-profit. Some people don't like that and think that .com should ONLY be for commercial entities, and I agree that's absolutely what it was designed for initially. Only problem is if you don't register a .com for your domain then a squatter will. And, unfortunately, unless your traffic consists mostly of tech-savvy users then the majority of your type-in traffic will hit the .com first.
Granted, I agree. If you can't afford $10 - $15 / YEAR for your domain then you're not getting much out of it. But then again, not all
The problem is that "lay-people" consider .com to be "it". And if you register "my-indie-band.org" some squatter WILL register "my-indie-band.com" ... and when your fans go to look you up they'll type in the ".com" before the ".org".
Is it bullshit ? Yeah, absolutely. Is there much we can do about it ? Not really.
"Is this a possible cure for spam where its legal or the laws are inadequate?"
All this does is send an e-mail on your behalf to various organizations asking that you be placed on their internal do-not-call-list. By-law any company in Canada that engages in telemarketing must remove you from their call list when requested.
The ironic part is that the system actually sends out bulk e-mail in order to operate. Whether or not that is "SPAM" is open to interpretation.
Actually the first thing that I thought after reading the summary was that FF4 was going to be Internet Explorer.
... isn't that something we've been complaining about with regards to IE for the last 10 years ?
I think everyone else hit the nail on the head. We originally used Phoenix because it WASN'T these things. It was a light, simple, fast, usable browser. Now they're talking about integrating it with the OS