Just to be clear, the article is about a supposed $200 billion in GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES. This has nothing to do with the free market..if anything it's the government suppressing market capitalism.
And beyond that.. this is a fucking Cringely article.
It should be noted that the SPF settings that Gmail for Domains provides uses ~all instead of -all. What this means in layman's terms is that an anti-spam filter is supposed to use the SPF record as a hint, rather than a requirement. Gmail does this most likely so that people who use their ISP's SMTP server to send out mail will still have their mail go through.
The point is, if you exclusively use Gmail for SMTP, you should change the record to -all for better protection.
GCC produces wildly different binaries from VC++ or ICC. The C and C++ specs don't define the binary output of a compiler, they only define the behavior of the binary generated.
Compilers have widely varying ways of emitting ASM. Even within a single compiler, you can produce a binary that is debug-compatable, optimized, really fucking optimized, or any combination thereof.
Indeed, the difference in emitted code is often the selling point of a compiler. Offhand, I can't think of any two compilers for any language that would produce the same output.
Yes, they will cut you off, but not because they assume you're pirating movies.
If you read the actual terms you'll see this:
Examples of prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i) continuous uploading, downloading or streaming of audio or video programming or games;
Basically, they don't want you using the internet to purchase movies or music from anyone other than Verizon. It's an incredibly anti-competitive action.
Just to be clear, there are some standard unix programs that store binary configuration information in/etc, such as tripwire. Either way, you can quite definitely completely fuck up your system by editing the wrong files in/etc./etc is NOT a central configuration database by any means, and it certainly is not one with a standardized interface. This is not to say that the registry is any better or worse. (Note, I hate the registry, but it's largely in part due to the below reason)
What it comes down to is it's not the configuration system provided at fault as much as how the system is used by applications and system libraries. Any configuration paradigm can be abused.
If you read my message, I never said anything to the contrary. What i said was -current- draft N devices only support 2.4 Ghz, most likely to keep costs down for compatability mode for b/g devices. The OP is suggesting buying current draft N devices.
Just to be clear, doing this is illegal (as in illegal illegal, not just a breach of contract/warranty) in most countries (including the US). In addition, boosting up your power like that can have the effect of screwing the people around you over by flooding the frequencies.
Completely -not- reccommended for congested areas, to be sure.
This is very bad information. Current 802.11n draft devices use 2.4 GHz, same as b and g. The only devices out on the market that use 5 GHz are 802.11a.
Also, 802.11n draft devices have a knack for fucking up non-n routers in the vicinity..you may be screwing the people around you over.
Seriously. Stuff like that makes it impossible for me to use Linux, as I can't afford to have downtime in which I have to track down a problem like that. And people who wouldn't know how to do that are just screwed.
It's bizarre to me how this article somehow gets doublethink-titled "Destop Linux Matured" when you've got problems like that (and the wireless problem he detailed which no average user would possibly comprehend). When Vista had all its problems in beta (and in release), Slashdot didn't give it a pass and call it "Desktop Windows Matured", why should Linux be any different?
"Apparently you cannot discover the features offered unless you are already a customer"
If by already a customer, you mean signed up for a free (+ $0.02 bonus added) account, then yes. Everything is a la carte in their system, so while you're required to have at least a single site or domain setup for the account to stay active for more than say 60 days, you certainly are under no obligations to buy anything, or even to provide credit card information.
That being said, their non-member site gives a pretty comprehensive overview of their services, especially in the FAQ.
This has been discussed several times in the past in an open forum with the people who run NFSN...understand that they are more open about free speech than basically everyone else. The only time they've run into an issue where they've needed to exercise that ability is when credit cards have been used fraudulently to purchase domains and/or web hosting, in order to seize those assets. Since you don't usually find out about a fraudulent transaction until much later, they is unable to get any kind of refund on the domain fees or hosting. The clause is there to protect them financially/legally from these and similar situations.
If you guys have any concerns about this beyond that, I'm sure they'd be happy to discuss it. They are quite simply more responsive to customer concerns, and especially support requests, than anyone else out there.
(and just to be clear, I make no money off of whether or not you guys choose to use them..I don't work for them and they have a philosophical hatred of affiliate programs)
Others do it, but not quite as well as nearlyfreespeech.net. Not only does NFSN forward domain email to wherever you want, but they also receive faxes and letter mail, and let you know when nonspam mail comes in for your domain.
I don't work for them or get commission.. but http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is a pretty fantastic domain registrar (and also a very nice webhost). You should check them out.
Isn't that kind of irrelevent? I thought that CVV was designed so that you'd need physical access to the card, and not just an impression of it (which is why it's printed and not pressed into the card). If so, this card is not physical in any way and such a value would make no difference in its security.
I am sure I've used this several years ago, it would make a frame in the top of the browser with the temporary number, and then you could browse any site you wanted to shop underneath and use it there.
I seem to also remember there being issues with lots of places not taking these cards due to extreme fraud.
I totally disagree. Flash is just an easy way of writing and distributing these games, it's still homebrew. You still use the Wiimote in order to control it. This can be "emulated" with a mouse, much like a SNES controller can be emulated with a keyboard, but it's just not the same.
I would love to see a homebrew community formed around flash Wii apps. People could test out ideas very quickly, and show them to others as well. In fact, once Opera is officially released I really hope to see this happen.
And yep, it works in Tiger (weird characters at the end): $./a.out Your karma check for today: There once was was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he'd do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don't steal Mac OS! Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.U??VWS?5P
Open source software will likely never catch up to Quicken / Quickbooks / MS Money.
Even if the basic software functionality was created, you still won't be able to connect with your bank via the software. You won't be able to download cancelled checks, write new ones/pay bills, or any of these other functionalities. You won't be able to because the bank gets a nice kickback from the financial software publishers to open their systems up to them, and the bank has essentially no incentive to work to open it up.
Publishers now have online collaboration tools for this stuff.. open source never will catch up. At most it'll be useful for low-complexity personal accounting, nothing on the scale that satifies enterprise needs.
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Just to be clear, the article is about a supposed $200 billion in GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES. This has nothing to do with the free market..if anything it's the government suppressing market capitalism.
And beyond that.. this is a fucking Cringely article.
It should be noted that the SPF settings that Gmail for Domains provides uses ~all instead of -all. What this means in layman's terms is that an anti-spam filter is supposed to use the SPF record as a hint, rather than a requirement. Gmail does this most likely so that people who use their ISP's SMTP server to send out mail will still have their mail go through.
The point is, if you exclusively use Gmail for SMTP, you should change the record to -all for better protection.
This doesn't work at all.
GCC produces wildly different binaries from VC++ or ICC. The C and C++ specs don't define the binary output of a compiler, they only define the behavior of the binary generated.
Compilers have widely varying ways of emitting ASM. Even within a single compiler, you can produce a binary that is debug-compatable, optimized, really fucking optimized, or any combination thereof.
Indeed, the difference in emitted code is often the selling point of a compiler. Offhand, I can't think of any two compilers for any language that would produce the same output.
Don't know if you heard, but Apple Computer was in the past couple months renamed to Apple, Inc.
We have people who do the same thing here.. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiling
Yes, they will cut you off, but not because they assume you're pirating movies.
If you read the actual terms you'll see this:
Examples of prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i) continuous uploading, downloading or streaming of audio or video programming or games;
Basically, they don't want you using the internet to purchase movies or music from anyone other than Verizon. It's an incredibly anti-competitive action.
Just to be clear, there are some standard unix programs that store binary configuration information in /etc, such as tripwire. Either way, you can quite definitely completely fuck up your system by editing the wrong files in /etc. /etc is NOT a central configuration database by any means, and it certainly is not one with a standardized interface. This is not to say that the registry is any better or worse. (Note, I hate the registry, but it's largely in part due to the below reason)
What it comes down to is it's not the configuration system provided at fault as much as how the system is used by applications and system libraries. Any configuration paradigm can be abused.
Maybe your browser sucks?
In Opera I can translate back and forth between all the pages instantly with no problems.
The linking issue is of course annoying, though not that uncommon in corporate websites.
See: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/!ut/p/_s.7 _0_A/7_0_CH/.cmd/ad/.ar/sa.getBib/.ps/N/.c/6_0_69/ .ce/7_0_3AB/.p/5_0_341
No idea whether that link will work persistently..but the relevent details are:
Yes, this is an Application Number: 10/260,471.
However, unfortunately, the patent itself was granted on April 11, its patent number is 7,028,023.
We should start a pool to pay for reexamination fees on some of these patents.
Cool.
Unfortunately, the non-gigabit ethernet ports on the Airport Extreme ruin an otherwise beautiful product.
-Cliff
If you read my message, I never said anything to the contrary. What i said was -current- draft N devices only support 2.4 Ghz, most likely to keep costs down for compatability mode for b/g devices. The OP is suggesting buying current draft N devices.
Just to be clear, doing this is illegal (as in illegal illegal, not just a breach of contract/warranty) in most countries (including the US). In addition, boosting up your power like that can have the effect of screwing the people around you over by flooding the frequencies.
Completely -not- reccommended for congested areas, to be sure.
This is very bad information. Current 802.11n draft devices use 2.4 GHz, same as b and g. The only devices out on the market that use 5 GHz are 802.11a.
Also, 802.11n draft devices have a knack for fucking up non-n routers in the vicinity..you may be screwing the people around you over.
Seriously. Stuff like that makes it impossible for me to use Linux, as I can't afford to have downtime in which I have to track down a problem like that. And people who wouldn't know how to do that are just screwed.
It's bizarre to me how this article somehow gets doublethink-titled "Destop Linux Matured" when you've got problems like that (and the wireless problem he detailed which no average user would possibly comprehend). When Vista had all its problems in beta (and in release), Slashdot didn't give it a pass and call it "Desktop Windows Matured", why should Linux be any different?
"Apparently you cannot discover the features offered unless you are already a customer"
If by already a customer, you mean signed up for a free (+ $0.02 bonus added) account, then yes. Everything is a la carte in their system, so while you're required to have at least a single site or domain setup for the account to stay active for more than say 60 days, you certainly are under no obligations to buy anything, or even to provide credit card information.
That being said, their non-member site gives a pretty comprehensive overview of their services, especially in the FAQ.
This has been discussed several times in the past in an open forum with the people who run NFSN...understand that they are more open about free speech than basically everyone else. The only time they've run into an issue where they've needed to exercise that ability is when credit cards have been used fraudulently to purchase domains and/or web hosting, in order to seize those assets. Since you don't usually find out about a fraudulent transaction until much later, they is unable to get any kind of refund on the domain fees or hosting. The clause is there to protect them financially/legally from these and similar situations.
If you guys have any concerns about this beyond that, I'm sure they'd be happy to discuss it. They are quite simply more responsive to customer concerns, and especially support requests, than anyone else out there.
(and just to be clear, I make no money off of whether or not you guys choose to use them..I don't work for them and they have a philosophical hatred of affiliate programs)
Others do it, but not quite as well as nearlyfreespeech.net. Not only does NFSN forward domain email to wherever you want, but they also receive faxes and letter mail, and let you know when nonspam mail comes in for your domain.
http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ -- these guys are the best. Check out their site, you'll understand.
I don't work for them or get commission.. but http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is a pretty fantastic domain registrar (and also a very nice webhost). You should check them out.
Isn't that kind of irrelevent? I thought that CVV was designed so that you'd need physical access to the card, and not just an impression of it (which is why it's printed and not pressed into the card). If so, this card is not physical in any way and such a value would make no difference in its security.
I am sure I've used this several years ago, it would make a frame in the top of the browser with the temporary number, and then you could browse any site you wanted to shop underneath and use it there.
I seem to also remember there being issues with lots of places not taking these cards due to extreme fraud.
-Cliff
I totally disagree. Flash is just an easy way of writing and distributing these games, it's still homebrew. You still use the Wiimote in order to control it. This can be "emulated" with a mouse, much like a SNES controller can be emulated with a keyboard, but it's just not the same.
I would love to see a homebrew community formed around flash Wii apps. People could test out ideas very quickly, and show them to others as well. In fact, once Opera is officially released I really hope to see this happen.
And yep, it works in Tiger (weird characters at the end): ./a.out
$
Your karma check for today:
There once was was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.U??VWS?5P
If you read their site, they explain that actually the contrast goes to 0, because a pixel on their screen can have 0 brightness.
.1 or .01.
Apparently this actually breaks the industry equation for deriving contrast (divide by 0), so they had to bump it up to like
Pretty awesome technology.
Open source software will likely never catch up to Quicken / Quickbooks / MS Money.
Even if the basic software functionality was created, you still won't be able to connect with your bank via the software. You won't be able to download cancelled checks, write new ones/pay bills, or any of these other functionalities. You won't be able to because the bank gets a nice kickback from the financial software publishers to open their systems up to them, and the bank has essentially no incentive to work to open it up.
Publishers now have online collaboration tools for this stuff.. open source never will catch up. At most it'll be useful for low-complexity personal accounting, nothing on the scale that satifies enterprise needs.
-Cliff