I also have occasional rendering issues with Firefox, but a refresh of the page will fix them. It is really, really wierd.
When it happens, then article/post text starts in the middle of the menus on the left hand side.
The bit about the refresh makes me think that the server will occasionally abbreviate part of the formatting information. The difference in browsers is explained by the differences in handling really bad HTML. But that's just a guess.
But where the hell did you go to find out the price?
The website makes it look like you need to contact a salesperson to get a quote. I truly hate websites with no feedback at all about pricing. I've spent two weeks trying to get a solid number from a sales person, only to find out they were 100k outside of my (10k) budget.
I frequently adjust different aspects of my browser for different sites. Adjusting the window size/position, bump up font size by 10%, allow/block images, whatever.
I'd like a system that remembers those adjustments, and not only reuses them when I return to the same site, but applies them again where appropriate. 'Where appropriate' is where machine learning comes in.
And the common long term follow up is that gambling revenues decline somewhat after the first couple of years because the novelty has worn off. This cuts education funding, and monies moved elsewhere do not move back. Thus in the long term education funding goes DOWN.
I wonder just how many other problems you run into trying to do everyday things on such a high-DPI monitor.
Our whole concept of how UI's are built are mostly built around absolute sizes measured in pixels. There have been some semi-recent moves towards smarter systems (layout managers, etc), but mostly those system are never complete and comprehensive because what we have now works well enough.
Will monitors like these be prevented from moving into mainstream because they make the text to small to read?
I'm a pretty hard core emacs user, but I don't normally try to convert people. It's just feature that has saved me a LOT of problems over the years so I thought I'd point it out to other people.
Use emacs to edit your zone files (as long as they are named with a.zone extention). The default zone mode auto-updates the serial number using the date/version convention.
It just works and leaves one less thing to worry about.
I know it's not the norm, but whenever I hear the word I think of the first time I heard of it.
I was a grad student living/working in the CS department and it's labs. One of the incoming freshmen was home schooled. His mother explained this to me as she was bringing him to class (and sitting in with him until they kicked her out). She also brought him to the lab to do his homework. And everywhere else that he went.
That poor kid. I got him to speak a few sentences directly to me a couple of times, but it wasn't easy. First I'd have to find a way to chase of his mother so he could even think about thinking or speaking for himself. Then I'd have to wait for him to stutter through whatever he was trying to say.
I know that home schooling CAN work well, and that that wasn't a typical case, but still...
I tend to leave the external power supplies for my laptop plugged in all the time, even when not connected to the laptop. Is the juice thus wasted truly trivial, or is it enough to worry about reaching down/around to unplug?
I've been expecting someone to compromise the update distribution system for years. The moment that happens, every single auto-patch system is toast.
This applies to all operating system with automated update systems, but I'm really been expecting to see a problem with the MS system. It's just too tempting.
And prior to allowing ActiveX signing Microsoft also sued/gagged the most visible demonstrations by people pointing out that running random code from the web was bad.
Remember the nice polite reboot your box demonstration?
The original purpose of the law was to nix an old scam. Shady companies would ship merchandise to people at random, and them send them a bill.
Originally, people had the legal obligation to return the goods or to pay for them. The companies would make it so hard to return the goods that it was easier to just pay the bill.
In response, Congress came up with a reasonable law that just made the problem go away. Amazing.
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Where did you get a 10Mbit link for $50/month? And who are you using as your VoIP provider?
It's not a virus. It's a cracked version of a game that sounds out SMS messages you don't know about.
If you don't install cracked games, you are safe. I was nervous for a bit.
"For us the Living" is the one I've read most recently. "The Dispossessed" is another.
These are extreme examples talking about the Utopia's that we could reach if we only accept "Idea(s) A, B and C", and tend to be a bit preachy.
But overall, I think Sci Fi is usually TOO optimistic.
Has anyone played with software Raid over external drives?
This has seemed like the easiest way to go.
Get a machine and a stack of external drives next to it, when you need more space, just add drives.
Use as many internal bays as you can to avoid the cost of external cases for as long as you can.
Not the fastest solution, but much faster than reading from CD/DVDs.
However, I haven't tried it. Has anyone else?
I also have occasional rendering issues with Firefox, but a refresh of the page will fix them. It is really, really wierd.
When it happens, then article/post text starts in the middle of the menus on the left hand side.
The bit about the refresh makes me think that the server will occasionally abbreviate part of the formatting information. The difference in browsers is explained by the differences in handling really bad HTML. But that's just a guess.
In the back of a volkswagon?
But where the hell did you go to find out the price?
The website makes it look like you need to contact a salesperson to get a quote. I truly hate websites with no feedback at all about pricing. I've spent two weeks trying to get a solid number from a sales person, only to find out they were 100k outside of my (10k) budget.
Of course, he won't bother checking to see if the spammer was actually IN Nigeria before invading.
I frequently adjust different aspects of my browser for different sites. Adjusting the window size/position, bump up font size by 10%, allow/block images, whatever.
I'd like a system that remembers those adjustments, and not only reuses them when I return to the same site, but applies them again where appropriate. 'Where appropriate' is where machine learning comes in.
And the common long term follow up is that gambling revenues decline somewhat after the first couple of years because the novelty has worn off. This cuts education funding, and monies moved elsewhere do not move back. Thus in the long term education funding goes DOWN.
Not a bad plan. Have you considered filing it with the authors? http://www.isc.org/
Communications of the ACM and Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Well, actually my subscription of DDJ lapsed a while back, and a rarely read CACM anymore.
But if I were going to read a magazine, those would be the ones.
I wonder just how many other problems you run into trying to do everyday things on such a high-DPI monitor.
Our whole concept of how UI's are built are mostly built around absolute sizes measured in pixels. There have been some semi-recent moves towards smarter systems (layout managers, etc), but mostly those system are never complete and comprehensive because what we have now works well enough.
Will monitors like these be prevented from moving into mainstream because they make the text to small to read?
I'm a pretty hard core emacs user, but I don't normally try to convert people. It's just feature that has saved me a LOT of problems over the years so I thought I'd point it out to other people.
Use emacs to edit your zone files (as long as they are named with a .zone extention). The default zone mode auto-updates the serial number using the date/version convention.
It just works and leaves one less thing to worry about.
Hey, the CueCat's are great barcode readers!
;>
You just didn't want to load the software that came with them.
I know it's not the norm, but whenever I hear the word I think of the first time I heard of it.
I was a grad student living/working in the CS department and it's labs. One of the incoming freshmen was home schooled. His mother explained this to me as she was bringing him to class (and sitting in with him until they kicked her out). She also brought him to the lab to do his homework. And everywhere else that he went.
That poor kid. I got him to speak a few sentences directly to me a couple of times, but it wasn't easy. First I'd have to find a way to chase of his mother so he could even think about thinking or speaking for himself. Then I'd have to wait for him to stutter through whatever he was trying to say.
I know that home schooling CAN work well, and that that wasn't a typical case, but still...
What's worse.... that often ends up happening for loopback connections.
Much of the advancement in early flight was related to similar contests of the time.
I'm really curious how big K is....
I tend to leave the external power supplies for my laptop plugged in all the time, even when not connected to the laptop. Is the juice thus wasted truly trivial, or is it enough to worry about reaching down/around to unplug?
I've been expecting someone to compromise the update distribution system for years. The moment that happens, every single auto-patch system is toast.
This applies to all operating system with automated update systems, but I'm really been expecting to see a problem with the MS system. It's just too tempting.
And prior to allowing ActiveX signing Microsoft also sued/gagged the most visible demonstrations by people pointing out that running random code from the web was bad.
Remember the nice polite reboot your box demonstration?
The original purpose of the law was to nix an old scam. Shady companies would ship merchandise to people at random, and them send them a bill.
Originally, people had the legal obligation to return the goods or to pay for them. The companies would make it so hard to return the goods that it was easier to just pay the bill.
In response, Congress came up with a reasonable law that just made the problem go away. Amazing.
I own a Saturn and like the company. But all dealerships are NOT created equal. There are Saturn dealerships that you just shouldn't trust.
But what is the most efficient plant for biodiesel? I remember reading that it was some varient of Hemp.
Of course, with those numbers, it probably doesn't matter how efficient the plant is. It's not going to be enough to matter.