I agree, but I worry for the day it starts getting abused, and sites start to force people to download certian XPI's (for some unknown, probably illegitimate reason), and the unknowing Joe Public will do so like a moron, and Firefox and it's XPI's will come close to IE and it's ActiveX.
Everyone knows that Einstein, aka Yahoo Serious, in his younger years invented the first electric guitar out of a violin and disarmed an atomic bomb with it! Geez...
...that MS would charge for their anti-virus software, otherwise they might have another anti-trust lawsuit no their hands (no pun, seriously).
If a huge corporation packaged a good enough anti-virus suit with their operating system, that would seriously hurt Norton, McAfee, AVG, etc... The same reason why they were forced to provide a slimmed down version of their OS that didn't have a media player... it's unfair to the competition.
Avoid lawsuits and make a few bucks? Yea... I think they're going to charge for the software.
Unless the core spins to shield the planet from the solar winds then anything done will only be temporary. The sun will simply blow off any thick atmosphere.
Not necessarily. The core doesn't have to "spin", but has to have internal currents to normalize the direction of polarizaion of the iron molecules (make them all face on direction... usually the current will do this). From that, you get a magnetic field. The currents can change too (just like what's going on with Earth right now), so we can't be sure about the future status of Mar's magnetic field.
If the core stops moving, you're not guaranteed a magnetic field, but you can still have a weak one, especially if the core is solid (like a solid iron magnet... just don't hit it with a hammer).
If encryption was enabled nobody would be able to connect.
Not so. It's pretty well known that the encryption implementation in a/b (i think just them, not g) is flawed in which you can pick up the encryption key just by monitoring the air waves.
Are you stupid? How the hell is someone who doesn't know anything about computers going to use Linux? Every time they need some piece of software installed (which probably doesn't have a *nix counterpart), what the hell are they going to do?
Do you not realize that Linux still doesn't have a good install/removal tool for applications?
I'd go on, but if you don't understand by now, then you probably never will.
"Stupid user: Hey Bobby, how do I play a DVD in Linux?
Young relative Bobby: Oh uhh... yea you can't. If you do, then you'd be breaking the law."
Pffft, I am working with a couple of high grade C++ programmers. When they go down using pointers etc. you can be sure they introduce some overflow errors.
The fact of the matter is that my mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law (and his parents), and most people are NOT gamers
So they would be able to run Linux then? I don't get your point.
Of all the people I know, the only people who aren't gamers (or play games on the computer at least casually) are people who don't know anything about computers. Even though they won't run Windows for the gaming, they'll run it for the ease of use.
Of the people who actually DO know what they're doing, they have multiple computers with at least one running windows.
But if the person is driving slowly in the fast lane, but not slower than the minimum speed on that road/highway, once again, they can't pull them over.
Yes they can... for improper lane usage. Although they are above the "minimum" limit set (if there is one set), the passing lane is intended just for that... passing. If you do not yield or move out of the way for oncoming (from behind) traffic, you will be considered as impeding traffic or improperly using a lane (whatever situation best fits) and you will get a ticket.
If they see them swerve, they might have PC.
If they see them swerve, then they can pull them over for reckless driving (improper lane usage if they swerve into another lane sans signal).
There are more traffic laws out there that'll get you a ticket other than just a DUI or speeding.
The LSB will begin providing certain standards as optional modules to the core LSB standard that will enable standards flexibility and allow for a wider variety of standards, eWeek is reporing Free Standards Group officials said at the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit today.
1, 2... 5 instances of the word "standard" in one sentence. Just a little overboard?
Eventually Google will be the all powerful conglomeration that is taking over the world, and we will soon hate them for their (in the future) e-mail system that can't get out of beta, search results that aren't unique anymore and some other innovation surpassed them, slow updates for the registrar, pressing it's might into all standards and gobbling up patents, etc...
C'mon google... keep it simple. I don't want to have to start hating you...
What about my Logitech MX 1000? This beast has 8 pushable buttons and 4 directional scroll wheel (can push it left or right, along with the normal up and down motion).
Yes it does, unless you somehow create dual contacts to the key within the ignition (you can't just have a floating communications signal... you need a reference voltage), which will have HUGE reliability problems. Recalls galore with that one.
In all seriousness, there are many, many ways to get around PATS (Passive Anti Theft System)...the RIFD technology they're talking about. Probably one of the most common "professional" ways of stealing the car is just carrying around an extra PCM (Powertrain Control Module) which doesn't rely on a signal from a PATS module to start the car... just disconnect the old module and connect it to the new one, and away you go.
Think that doesn't work? Well the Europeans think so. They have installed an extra casing around the PCM to deterr just this kind of theft. People don't realise that they've already found ways around all the security measures they have with cars... it's just that joe crack head can't steal your car, but the guys who make a real living off this will.
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Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted web pages?
If so, good. I used to only like IE because of the scripting ability with JavaScript and CSS, but now after the newer versions of Firefox came out, I find it performs much better than IE in many aspects (yet, there still are a few bugs).
For instance, Firefox supports more W3C standard CSS attributes than IE currently does (see:before usage, and the like). Also, firefox got away from the horrid Netscape implementation (which made me an IE only scripter to begin with) going for the more W3C standards, which actually makes it compatible with many, many common "IE only" scripts in use today. I was suprised that some of my websites suddenly worked with Firefox after one of their newest releases.
I especially like how Firefox now allows you to use "document.all" when referencing an object, but gives you a nice suggestion in the JavaScript console to use the W3C standard: getObjectByID() or such. Very, very helpful.
I hope Firefox leads the way with JavaScript and CSS... they're actually doing it right.
As I understand it, that would be the speed in relation from one object to the other. My question is if a 3rd, stationary obersver were watching, what speeds would he view the two as traveling?
There must be some other object traveling in the opposite direction as that one at some great speed. So how would be observe it?
...water dillutes the acids in your stomach, causing lining buildup and limiting your ability to break down foods, which can cause malnutrition.
Seriously, name ONE thing that doesn't have an adverse side effect in any way, especially if you exagerate your claims (alcohol is good for your liver... in moderation).
It also assumes that we have perfect knowledge about the inner workings of the human brain. If men are better than women at math, which hormones cause improved math skill?
I don't know, but I would have to say that there is a fundamental difference due to innerworking or other chemical differences. Even though you can *prove* it (yet), I still believe it. Namely because of the differences I find in the *way* men and women (the average of at least the ones I know) think. To the point... men think in more temporal terms.
My mother even summed it up a while back, and it involved driving... specifically driving directions. Basically, men tend to give distances in relative terms (either time or other, nonspecific words like "a little ways" or "a while down the road"), while my mother, girlfriend, girlfriends mother, and other friends that happen to be female, all specify more exact distances (2 miles, etc).
One day I was driving my family to a christmas tree farm. My mom somehow got to navigating, and kept giving the specific distances from mapquest or yahoomaps, such as 0.7 miles down the road. It drove me nuts because it didn't help me at all. If she would have just said "a little ways" or "it'll be comin up soon", I would have been fine.
I'm not the only guy like this. My stepfather does the exact same thing. Brother does it, friends do it, etc. The only time I care about distances is when I'm looking for an exit on the highway, and I can use mile markers or exit numbers to guage how *long* it'll take me to get to the exit.
How does this mean men may be slightly better at math (especially concidering I DID say that the women I know think in more specific, descrete terms)? Well... precisely that. They think descretely, where things that can be grasped in temporal terms, such as integration (at least that's how I view it), spacial relations (driving a car...), and many other tasks, may not come as easily.
I could continue with other ways women and men think differently, such as my girlfriend describes her thought process as being more "emotional," while mine is more conceptual, but the example I gave was the most concrete thing I could come up with.
I wouldn't want to run a real-time-clock off of it. I wonder if they have some sort of calibration mechanism on the production line
All you really need is good design. If your components are verified within tolerances, then you don't need to calibrate anything.
For the variance of speed, as long as everything is running on the same clock or some multiple of the same clock, then there's no problem. The calculator doesn't really need real time clocks anyway.
You only get into problem when you need precise timing, perhaps with aggressive timings for speed optimization (pushing the edge of rise/fall times, but like you said, they're probably underclocked and since you can, obviously, overclock them a great deal with little problems), A/D converters for charge pumps or other charging delays, or some communicaions, but there's not much of that going on in the calculator. Even with the com port on the calculator, you don't need real precise timing and it probably has it's own clock anyway.
Most CSS does display well, but I've run into problems with inline frames where the style sheet is applied to a page when it shouldn't be (I've only noticed background colors so far).
Yea, I just figured that it was the websites fault with invalid markups, but it's still kinda silly that it changes when you hit refresh (or sometimes only displays "properly" when you go somewhere else, the use the back button to get back to the page).
...like not displaying CSS styles properly? Or changing the layout of the page (often finally to the correct layout) after hitting refresh even though it's the exact same page?
Though, even with these bugs, I still prefer it to anything else.
I totally agree with the ruling since it explicitly mentions a single theory, and does not give a good, general approach to the problem in whole.
If it merely said "ALL theories about the origins of life are at best theories, and never facts or laws," then there would be no problem.
Yes the sticker states the truth that evolution (Darwinism, I suppose... there ARE other theories) is only a theory, but it is the unique discrimination against a single theory that causes conflict, and thus I agree with the ruling.
Would you have any problem with a sticker that said "[Gg]od cannot be scientifically proven to exist in any way, and the existence of [Gg]od should be approached with an open mind."? It does state a fact, but its intent is to in stow a specific mindset into the reader, thus skewing their perspective.
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I agree, but I worry for the day it starts getting abused, and sites start to force people to download certian XPI's (for some unknown, probably illegitimate reason), and the unknowing Joe Public will do so like a moron, and Firefox and it's XPI's will come close to IE and it's ActiveX.
I love firefox, but I fear it's future.
Everyone knows that Einstein, aka Yahoo Serious, in his younger years invented the first electric guitar out of a violin and disarmed an atomic bomb with it! Geez...
...that MS would charge for their anti-virus software, otherwise they might have another anti-trust lawsuit no their hands (no pun, seriously).
If a huge corporation packaged a good enough anti-virus suit with their operating system, that would seriously hurt Norton, McAfee, AVG, etc... The same reason why they were forced to provide a slimmed down version of their OS that didn't have a media player... it's unfair to the competition.
Avoid lawsuits and make a few bucks? Yea... I think they're going to charge for the software.
Unless the core spins to shield the planet from the solar winds then anything done will only be temporary. The sun will simply blow off any thick atmosphere.
Not necessarily. The core doesn't have to "spin", but has to have internal currents to normalize the direction of polarizaion of the iron molecules (make them all face on direction... usually the current will do this). From that, you get a magnetic field. The currents can change too (just like what's going on with Earth right now), so we can't be sure about the future status of Mar's magnetic field.
If the core stops moving, you're not guaranteed a magnetic field, but you can still have a weak one, especially if the core is solid (like a solid iron magnet... just don't hit it with a hammer).
If encryption was enabled nobody would be able to connect.
Not so. It's pretty well known that the encryption implementation in a/b (i think just them, not g) is flawed in which you can pick up the encryption key just by monitoring the air waves.
Are you stupid? How the hell is someone who doesn't know anything about computers going to use Linux? Every time they need some piece of software installed (which probably doesn't have a *nix counterpart), what the hell are they going to do?
Do you not realize that Linux still doesn't have a good install/removal tool for applications?
I'd go on, but if you don't understand by now, then you probably never will.
"Stupid user: Hey Bobby, how do I play a DVD in Linux?
Young relative Bobby: Oh uhh... yea you can't. If you do, then you'd be breaking the law."
Pffft, I am working with a couple of high grade C++ programmers. When they go down using pointers etc. you can be sure they introduce some overflow errors.
Are they really that high grade then?
The fact of the matter is that my mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law (and his parents), and most people are NOT gamers
So they would be able to run Linux then? I don't get your point.
Of all the people I know, the only people who aren't gamers (or play games on the computer at least casually) are people who don't know anything about computers. Even though they won't run Windows for the gaming, they'll run it for the ease of use.
Of the people who actually DO know what they're doing, they have multiple computers with at least one running windows.
The point is that it's not filled with MS ActiveX controls and other IE only functions, and it will be very cross-browser friendly.
And it will never be XHTML Strict valid if they still use IFRAMEs...
They'll probably have to go down to transitional in the end.
But if the person is driving slowly in the fast lane, but not slower than the minimum speed on that road/highway, once again, they can't pull them over.
Yes they can... for improper lane usage. Although they are above the "minimum" limit set (if there is one set), the passing lane is intended just for that... passing. If you do not yield or move out of the way for oncoming (from behind) traffic, you will be considered as impeding traffic or improperly using a lane (whatever situation best fits) and you will get a ticket.
If they see them swerve, they might have PC.
If they see them swerve, then they can pull them over for reckless driving (improper lane usage if they swerve into another lane sans signal).
There are more traffic laws out there that'll get you a ticket other than just a DUI or speeding.
... at least in Michigan.
The LSB will begin providing certain standards as optional modules to the core LSB standard that will enable standards flexibility and allow for a wider variety of standards, eWeek is reporing Free Standards Group officials said at the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit today.
1, 2... 5 instances of the word "standard" in one sentence.
Just a little overboard?
Eventually Google will be the all powerful conglomeration that is taking over the world, and we will soon hate them for their (in the future) e-mail system that can't get out of beta, search results that aren't unique anymore and some other innovation surpassed them, slow updates for the registrar, pressing it's might into all standards and gobbling up patents, etc...
C'mon google... keep it simple. I don't want to have to start hating you...
What about my Logitech MX 1000? This beast has 8 pushable buttons and 4 directional scroll wheel (can push it left or right, along with the normal up and down motion).
I think of it as the Anti-Mac Mouse.
Yes it does, unless you somehow create dual contacts to the key within the ignition (you can't just have a floating communications signal... you need a reference voltage), which will have HUGE reliability problems. Recalls galore with that one.
In all seriousness, there are many, many ways to get around PATS (Passive Anti Theft System)...the RIFD technology they're talking about. Probably one of the most common "professional" ways of stealing the car is just carrying around an extra PCM (Powertrain Control Module) which doesn't rely on a signal from a PATS module to start the car... just disconnect the old module and connect it to the new one, and away you go.
Think that doesn't work? Well the Europeans think so. They have installed an extra casing around the PCM to deterr just this kind of theft. People don't realise that they've already found ways around all the security measures they have with cars... it's just that joe crack head can't steal your car, but the guys who make a real living off this will.
Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted web pages?
:before usage, and the like). Also, firefox got away from the horrid Netscape implementation (which made me an IE only scripter to begin with) going for the more W3C standards, which actually makes it compatible with many, many common "IE only" scripts in use today. I was suprised that some of my websites suddenly worked with Firefox after one of their newest releases.
If so, good. I used to only like IE because of the scripting ability with JavaScript and CSS, but now after the newer versions of Firefox came out, I find it performs much better than IE in many aspects (yet, there still are a few bugs).
For instance, Firefox supports more W3C standard CSS attributes than IE currently does (see
I especially like how Firefox now allows you to use "document.all" when referencing an object, but gives you a nice suggestion in the JavaScript console to use the W3C standard: getObjectByID() or such. Very, very helpful.
I hope Firefox leads the way with JavaScript and CSS... they're actually doing it right.
As I understand it, that would be the speed in relation from one object to the other. My question is if a 3rd, stationary obersver were watching, what speeds would he view the two as traveling?
There must be some other object traveling in the opposite direction as that one at some great speed. So how would be observe it?
...what if we find another object moving at, say, 5% C in the opposite direction?
.99C object, the .05C object would be going faster than the speed of light?
Would that mean that relative to
I know that relativity says that one must slow down, but how would WE observe it?
...water dillutes the acids in your stomach, causing lining buildup and limiting your ability to break down foods, which can cause malnutrition.
Seriously, name ONE thing that doesn't have an adverse side effect in any way, especially if you exagerate your claims (alcohol is good for your liver... in moderation).
It also assumes that we have perfect knowledge about the inner workings of the human brain. If men are better than women at math, which hormones cause improved math skill?
I don't know, but I would have to say that there is a fundamental difference due to innerworking or other chemical differences. Even though you can *prove* it (yet), I still believe it. Namely because of the differences I find in the *way* men and women (the average of at least the ones I know) think. To the point... men think in more temporal terms.
My mother even summed it up a while back, and it involved driving... specifically driving directions. Basically, men tend to give distances in relative terms (either time or other, nonspecific words like "a little ways" or "a while down the road"), while my mother, girlfriend, girlfriends mother, and other friends that happen to be female, all specify more exact distances (2 miles, etc).
One day I was driving my family to a christmas tree farm. My mom somehow got to navigating, and kept giving the specific distances from mapquest or yahoomaps, such as 0.7 miles down the road. It drove me nuts because it didn't help me at all. If she would have just said "a little ways" or "it'll be comin up soon", I would have been fine.
I'm not the only guy like this. My stepfather does the exact same thing. Brother does it, friends do it, etc. The only time I care about distances is when I'm looking for an exit on the highway, and I can use mile markers or exit numbers to guage how *long* it'll take me to get to the exit.
How does this mean men may be slightly better at math (especially concidering I DID say that the women I know think in more specific, descrete terms)? Well... precisely that. They think descretely, where things that can be grasped in temporal terms, such as integration (at least that's how I view it), spacial relations (driving a car...), and many other tasks, may not come as easily.
I could continue with other ways women and men think differently, such as my girlfriend describes her thought process as being more "emotional," while mine is more conceptual, but the example I gave was the most concrete thing I could come up with.
I wouldn't want to run a real-time-clock off of it. I wonder if they have some sort of calibration mechanism on the production line
All you really need is good design. If your components are verified within tolerances, then you don't need to calibrate anything.
For the variance of speed, as long as everything is running on the same clock or some multiple of the same clock, then there's no problem. The calculator doesn't really need real time clocks anyway.
You only get into problem when you need precise timing, perhaps with aggressive timings for speed optimization (pushing the edge of rise/fall times, but like you said, they're probably underclocked and since you can, obviously, overclock them a great deal with little problems), A/D converters for charge pumps or other charging delays, or some communicaions, but there's not much of that going on in the calculator. Even with the com port on the calculator, you don't need real precise timing and it probably has it's own clock anyway.
Most CSS does display well, but I've run into problems with inline frames where the style sheet is applied to a page when it shouldn't be (I've only noticed background colors so far).
Yea, I just figured that it was the websites fault with invalid markups, but it's still kinda silly that it changes when you hit refresh (or sometimes only displays "properly" when you go somewhere else, the use the back button to get back to the page).
Firefox isn't perfect. It still has some bugs
...like not displaying CSS styles properly? Or changing the layout of the page (often finally to the correct layout) after hitting refresh even though it's the exact same page?
Though, even with these bugs, I still prefer it to anything else.
I give athiests the same respect as I do the people on the 700 Club (see: Religious News)... none.
Mainly because you *cannot prove* that god/God does not exist, but you argue against religious people like they are the moron.
I totally agree with the ruling since it explicitly mentions a single theory, and does not give a good, general approach to the problem in whole.
If it merely said "ALL theories about the origins of life are at best theories, and never facts or laws," then there would be no problem.
Yes the sticker states the truth that evolution (Darwinism, I suppose... there ARE other theories) is only a theory, but it is the unique discrimination against a single theory that causes conflict, and thus I agree with the ruling.
Would you have any problem with a sticker that said "[Gg]od cannot be scientifically proven to exist in any way, and the existence of [Gg]od should be approached with an open mind."? It does state a fact, but its intent is to in stow a specific mindset into the reader, thus skewing their perspective.