Well they were comparing modern browsers and I don't know any one who considers IE8 in that category....
Personaly I think it was there just to show how much the IE team has really improved performance, to be homiest I am impressed.
As for beating chrome, just keep in mind that you are going up against a bunch of PHD's who probably work on it for fun...
Maybe, but unfortunately most morbidly obese people cannot fit into or be supported by the MRI machines that hospitals have. It is quite the reality check when these people have to be sent to the Zoo to make use of the same equipment they use for large animals.
These thing are amazing, the server room at work has boxes of them I have one for my personal keyboard. You can also get them from Lenovo here (This is the full flavour version you can also get a compact version as well). A bit pricey they are, but when you can kick back, put you hand on the keyboard and never have to have them leave it is just heaven, not to mention that you don't need a flat space or space at all to move your mouse. They do take geting use to but all who I have got to try them have never looked back.
I agree it is no different except in one small but important point.
Software that is being used to make money (part or in a business setting) or in the case of a school used in a public setting is equivalent to someone reselling music or DVD's or doing a public broadcast of a show without the rights to do so.
I think most of Slashdot would agree that this is illegal and morally wrong whether it is software or music.
Now the other case which you are using referring to pirated music for individual does get ambiguous for both software and music. I would go as far to say even it is not looked upon generally and morally wrong. I most cases the companies in question realize it is not worth there time and these people are just customers in training.
I will be the first to admit it, that when I was in school I pirated both software and music. Now I am in a business environment and for my self that I have the money to buy the software, I do pay for it. It also probably the only reason I insisted that the company I work for get a certain IDE instead of using eclipse and I have Photoshop instead of GIMP. I do love the FOSS alternative but they are just not the same.
I know they are not making their O/S's more secure, but isn't anything they do to reduce malware a good thing. Aren't these other companies only existent because of Microsoft's poor quality in the fist place?
1) Find a company that make a product with a defect 2) Make a process for improving the flaw 3) Sue when they try to fix the flaw 4) Profit for life?
You use to spread this stuff with just the boot sector of a floppy, I know over they years malware grew in size to the point where the last major version came on dvds. But really 160GB hard dive does this mean we will all need to have blueray players to install the latest viruses?
It's hardware get over it, that is what insurance if for. If I were to take a computer I would do one of two things. If I was after the data I would try to get access to the system but it would never be hooked up to a outside network and if it were not to one traced back to me. If I was after the system, then I would wipe the computer. So until there is some kind of hardware to do this that can not be disabled through the BIOS:
1) Forget the computer, If the data that was on it is that irreplaceable it should have been backed up (in some secondary location portable HD are cheep these days). poo hoo if you didn't your learned your lesson and you will now.
2) If the data was in any was sensitive you should have encrypted the hard drive and used some sort of hard drive lock mechanisms like what is available on the ThinkPad's.
3) If the machine was valuable it should have been insured, not left unattended and/or unsecured with some kind of lock method and/or in view of the public. If it was a crime of opportunity a cable lock or just putting the computer into a locked cabinet would probably be enough to save you all this trouble.
Stop looking for someone else to fix your problems and have big brother take responsibility for you.
Do some basic defense, learn from your mistakes and move on, Good Luck!
Sometimes I wish there was a cure of retarded religious flunkies. They're one of the true threats to health and harmony. Unfortunately it would cost way to much, more then all the money spent on researching other diseases.
Although the amount required to fund the research in to this disease is not of an issue to the infected. They tend to spend it trying to buy their way in to some version of heaven.
What is the point of working towards the next set of standards if no one is currently up to or following the ones already in place?
They need something to do in there spare time...
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You comment made me think back to an interview I heard a few days back on the CBC (Canadian radio) asking about whether computer should forget. I know it is great we have all this information at our fingers tips but at what point is it too much being able to sort though and make sense is a skill not many people have and begging able to ignore all the junk and think that are not importer even fewer people have.
With the shear amount of information being created and none of it going away EVER these days were becoming pack rats to the point where we even box up all our own feces and file it away for later examination. In the real world we would clean this up and throw it out every so often. So it is no surprise to me that when someone's slate is wiped clean (and all there shit is tossed out) in the computer world they feel so good after their initial shock of the loss. Most things that are critically important are backed up or have been passed around with other people who you are working on it with.
Close but I believe the exact words of the NSA researcher were:
1-bit encryption is unbreakable and everyone should be using it, meanwhile for enhanced security the government will be moving to 2^1024-bit encryption.
It's not illogical it makes perfect sense to anyone who programs, well anyone who dose lower level programming. If computers were to work in base 10... Sorry I can not even go there.
True false
v.s. the classic
True Maybe False
v.s. The new base 10 computing
True Could be factual Might be accurate Maybe right Slightly correct Slightly fake Maybe phony Might be counterfeit Could be wrong False
Follow the STANDARD, people. It's not hard. Let me spell it out:
1 mile = 1794 yards = 5382 feet (except nautical miles, which equal 4977 feet, and air miles) = 107 rods, or maybe chains. Whichever. 1 ton = 1440 lbs = 12880 oz (or 12000 troy oz.) = 12888000 grains = 256000000 iotas 1 gallon = 64 fl.oz. = 68 oz.vol. = 2 quarts = 16 cups = 256 tsps. or 100 Scotch gills (102 English gills or 'short gills') 1 year = 365 1/4 days = 12 months of all different lengths. That one's a bit confusing, I admit. Also there are cubits and firkins. Well when you put it like that up here in Canada our metric system just seems down right impossible!
We have this crazy idea that working with base 10 is just so much easier!
Mad things I tell you! Like:
1 meter = 0.001 kilometer or 1 meter = 100 centimeter
I could go on but It is just way to complicated not like your easy to remember system of random values and measurement base on kings feet and who knows what else!
If you tossed something where there is no gravity (space) and it is a vacuum (you have nothing to push against (the earth)) you will gain the momentum that the object you tossed gained. (Conservation of energy thought you might have lost some due to the effort of the toss.)
Case 2: (This engine) If you now build a box in space and toss something inside of it (dose not mater if it is a vacuum or not) you are going to go one way and the object is going to go the other. Now you will both hit the walls and transfer some energy to the box and you will probably bounce around a bit to. The thing is the over all energy transferred is zero. The box will vibrate, but will not really go anywhere.
So what dose this mean? For you to gain momentum you must expel something in the opposite direction you want to go. Rocks and jets don't push they throw partials out.
Now yes there will be heat lose and other energy but in these cases that is negotiable though in this engine could make a difference (heat is just another form of radiation). So assuming that the microwaves end up as heat and all that goes out the wide end of the tube instead of randomly dispersed. It could work.
This is the best I can do with out giving math examples if someone can do better please do.
Sorry I did not answer your question I just ended up saying that the bouncing should cause the engine not to work. Hummm... Oh well...
Really bland article I mean I can change the gravitation fields on my desk my moving my glass of water around and I do believe that is measurable. (Maybe not by a satellite.) So anyone out there have an idea of the magnitude of the change. Will athletes gain a boost there by training in a higher gravity environment? What are the effects of the lower gravity environment or is it so insignificant that who cares.
Or more interesting dose anyone have a map of the earth and differences in gravity in different areas? (I smell a new google map)
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Well they were comparing modern browsers and I don't know any one who considers IE8 in that category.... Personaly I think it was there just to show how much the IE team has really improved performance, to be homiest I am impressed. As for beating chrome, just keep in mind that you are going up against a bunch of PHD's who probably work on it for fun...
Not something I think we need to repeat. Why is it that every time I see 'Diebold' my mind replaces it with 'Diabolical'.
Maybe, but unfortunately most morbidly obese people cannot fit into or be supported by the MRI machines that hospitals have. It is quite the reality check when these people have to be sent to the Zoo to make use of the same equipment they use for large animals.
But my computer always POST before I can login...
These thing are amazing, the server room at work has boxes of them I have one for my personal keyboard. You can also get them from Lenovo here (This is the full flavour version you can also get a compact version as well). A bit pricey they are, but when you can kick back, put you hand on the keyboard and never have to have them leave it is just heaven, not to mention that you don't need a flat space or space at all to move your mouse. They do take geting use to but all who I have got to try them have never looked back.
Well yes, of course
Ubuntu 8.10, you can get it here:
http://klingbuntu.wizage.net/
ah... there sill trying to convince us it is an open license.
I agree it is no different except in one small but important point.
Software that is being used to make money (part or in a business setting) or in the case of a school used in a public setting is equivalent to someone reselling music or DVD's or doing a public broadcast of a show without the rights to do so.
I think most of Slashdot would agree that this is illegal and morally wrong whether it is software or music.
Now the other case which you are using referring to pirated music for individual does get ambiguous for both software and music. I would go as far to say even it is not looked upon generally and morally wrong. I most cases the companies in question realize it is not worth there time and these people are just customers in training.
I will be the first to admit it, that when I was in school I pirated both software and music. Now I am in a business environment and for my self that I have the money to buy the software, I do pay for it. It also probably the only reason I insisted that the company I work for get a certain IDE instead of using eclipse and I have Photoshop instead of GIMP. I do love the FOSS alternative but they are just not the same.
Just a quick replay to your first point.
WE DO HAVE A MASSIVE ISSUE WITH OUT BANKING SYSTEM.
where have you been the past year? Canada :)
I know they are not making their O/S's more secure, but isn't anything they do to reduce malware a good thing. Aren't these other companies only existent because of Microsoft's poor quality in the fist place?
1) Find a company that make a product with a defect
2) Make a process for improving the flaw
3) Sue when they try to fix the flaw
4) Profit for life?
You use to spread this stuff with just the boot sector of a floppy, I know over they years malware grew in size to the point where the last major version came on dvds. But really 160GB hard dive does this mean we will all need to have blueray players to install the latest viruses?
Ah well..... that's progress for you.
It's hardware get over it, that is what insurance if for. If I were to take a computer I would do one of two things. If I was after the data I would try to get access to the system but it would never be hooked up to a outside network and if it were not to one traced back to me. If I was after the system, then I would wipe the computer. So until there is some kind of hardware to do this that can not be disabled through the BIOS:
1) Forget the computer, If the data that was on it is that irreplaceable it should have been backed up (in some secondary location portable HD are cheep these days). poo hoo if you didn't your learned your lesson and you will now.
2) If the data was in any was sensitive you should have encrypted the hard drive and used some sort of hard drive lock mechanisms like what is available on the ThinkPad's.
3) If the machine was valuable it should have been insured, not left unattended and/or unsecured with some kind of lock method and/or in view of the public. If it was a crime of opportunity a cable lock or just putting the computer into a locked cabinet would probably be enough to save you all this trouble.
Stop looking for someone else to fix your problems and have big brother take responsibility for you.
Do some basic defense, learn from your mistakes and move on,
Good Luck!
Apparently you have never used VISTA.
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I am not ignorant, I chose to know, then I chose to ignore.
Although the amount required to fund the research in to this disease is not of an issue to the infected. They tend to spend it trying to buy their way in to some version of heaven.
We tried that with Micro$oft but they just turned around a bought all the politicians.
What is the point of working towards the next set of standards if no one is currently up to or following the ones already in place?
They need something to do in there spare time...
You comment made me think back to an interview I heard a few days back on the CBC (Canadian radio) asking about whether computer should forget. I know it is great we have all this information at our fingers tips but at what point is it too much being able to sort though and make sense is a skill not many people have and begging able to ignore all the junk and think that are not importer even fewer people have.
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With the shear amount of information being created and none of it going away EVER these days were becoming pack rats to the point where we even box up all our own feces and file it away for later examination. In the real world we would clean this up and throw it out every so often. So it is no surprise to me that when someone's slate is wiped clean (and all there shit is tossed out) in the computer world they feel so good after their initial shock of the loss. Most things that are critically important are backed up or have been passed around with other people who you are working on it with.
Any who if you would like to listen to it:
15/05/2007: Internet Memory - Technology that doesn't Forget
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/current_20070515_2306.m
Close but I believe the exact words of the NSA researcher were:
1-bit encryption is unbreakable and everyone should be using it, meanwhile for enhanced security the government will be moving to 2^1024-bit encryption.
(This is Big Brother we are talking about)
enough said.
Simple you want to know why Wii games cost less!
They are the only ones who are not subsidizing the price of their consoled with the games that they are selling!
Sony takes about $150 hit they need to recap!
Pay for it now, pay for it later in the end you are still paying for it! I for one do not mind paying a bit more now to save later!
Simple we don't we just work in a different base:
2^10 = 1024 bytes
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
It's not illogical it makes perfect sense to anyone who programs, well anyone who dose lower level programming. If computers were to work in base 10... Sorry I can not even go there.
True false
v.s. the classic
True Maybe False
v.s. The new base 10 computing
True
Could be factual
Might be accurate
Maybe right
Slightly correct
Slightly fake
Maybe phony
Might be counterfeit
Could be wrong
False
(Ok maybe not this bad)
What are/is "maths"?
For those of us who do do MATH yes metric is nice.
1 mile = 1794 yards = 5382 feet (except nautical miles, which equal 4977 feet, and air miles) = 107 rods, or maybe chains. Whichever.
1 ton = 1440 lbs = 12880 oz (or 12000 troy oz.) = 12888000 grains = 256000000 iotas
1 gallon = 64 fl.oz. = 68 oz.vol. = 2 quarts = 16 cups = 256 tsps. or 100 Scotch gills (102 English gills or 'short gills')
1 year = 365 1/4 days = 12 months of all different lengths. That one's a bit confusing, I admit.
Also there are cubits and firkins. Well when you put it like that up here in Canada our metric system just seems down right impossible!
We have this crazy idea that working with base 10 is just so much easier!
Mad things I tell you! Like:
1 meter = 0.001 kilometer
or
1 meter = 100 centimeter
I could go on but It is just way to complicated not like your easy to remember system of random values and measurement base on kings feet and who knows what else!
Simple example
Case 1: (Ion engine)
If you tossed something where there is no gravity (space) and it is a vacuum (you have nothing to push against (the earth)) you will gain the momentum that the object you tossed gained. (Conservation of energy thought you might have lost some due to the effort of the toss.)
Case 2: (This engine)
If you now build a box in space and toss something inside of it (dose not mater if it is a vacuum or not) you are going to go one way and the object is going to go the other. Now you will both hit the walls and transfer some energy to the box and you will probably bounce around a bit to. The thing is the over all energy transferred is zero. The box will vibrate, but will not really go anywhere.
So what dose this mean? For you to gain momentum you must expel something in the opposite direction you want to go. Rocks and jets don't push they throw partials out.
Now yes there will be heat lose and other energy but in these cases that is negotiable though in this engine could make a difference (heat is just another form of radiation). So assuming that the microwaves end up as heat and all that goes out the wide end of the tube instead of randomly dispersed. It could work.
This is the best I can do with out giving math examples if someone can do better please do.
Sorry I did not answer your question I just ended up saying that the bouncing should cause the engine not to work. Hummm... Oh well...
Really bland article I mean I can change the gravitation fields on my desk my moving my glass of water around and I do believe that is measurable. (Maybe not by a satellite.) So anyone out there have an idea of the magnitude of the change. Will athletes gain a boost there by training in a higher gravity environment? What are the effects of the lower gravity environment or is it so insignificant that who cares.
Or more interesting dose anyone have a map of the earth and differences in gravity in different areas? (I smell a new google map)
Just my 2 cents