Um, yes. Not every webmaster is incompetent. Having malware through a generally respectable ad agency, for example, may be no fault of the webmaster. Why would it hurt to wait one week to put the feature on the front-end of Google, and informing webmaster through their tool first? One week wouldn't make any significant difference when the new version of this feature doesn't even exist today.
Instead of just flagging sites for users, they should first add the detailed information to the Google Webmaster Tools. If it's third party software that's the problem inform the webmasters (at least those who use Google's tools) so they can take it down. Granted, it's their own fault for using third party software without enough investigation, but let them fix the problem before they're flagged for end users.
And that was one of my favorites back on the C64. It was very addictive. This really shows it's the overall creativity and playability that matters most in a game, not necessarily the complexity or graphics.
Interesting coincidence that it's posted on the same day as someone from Microsoft belittling the Wii for its lesser graphics and simplicity. Doesn't make it less fun!
My understanding is that the biggest bottlenecks are usually the hubs or switch boxes, not the cable itself. In my apartment building, for example, the cable company has told us that the reason for the slowdowns at night when most people are online is from the switch box in the basement, not the cables up to the apartments or the cables out to the company.
When Verizon came in and installed FiOS they claimed a big advantage is the fibers go straight out the buildings to their offices, not slowed down by intermediary switches like cable.
This is all hearsay, but it's from the two competing companies with competing technologies, so it sounds about right.
You're implying Microsoft didn't invent browser tabs. Or interface tabs at all for that matter. Next you'll probably be telling everyone they didn't invent the web browser!
Man, the crazy things people post to slashdot these days...
Can someone point me at a single Open sourced project that offers the same, or at least equivalent, service as the closed source version? I'm not just talking about technical specifications or functionality of the app itself, but also service, support, AND legal responsibility.
Firefox. Back when I was using IE and I had an MSDN account I didn't get any more support than the Firefox user community has given me. Patches for Firefox are released a lot faster and all known vulnerabilities are announced. IE sure didn't handle legal responsibility more than FF. I got far more from the free open source browser than the $15K per year MSDN account and IE.
You may also want to look at companies like RedHat and IBM who provide the same level of service for Linux as is offered for the closed source competition.
That's not completely accurate. In many common setups sudo allows certain users to only execute certain applications. For example, on a web server I'm looking at right now I can sudo nano but I don't have permission to sudo svn. It explicitly states that the current user doesn't have permission to execute that application.
While there's no such thing as perfect, we can still try to get reasonably close. For elections we can sure get a lot closer to real accuracy. A few people will always claim it's fixed. But when you have multiple documentary films, books, and protests there's obviously something wrong.
I programmed with the Jet DB "engine" years ago. I wouldn't even run a web site with it. The only thing I found it useful for was business applications, such as connecting an Excel spreadsheet to Access. But that was years and years ago. Why would anyone write such a large and critical system using Jet today, when even Microsoft tells you not to? The only answer is incompetence.
Ok, troll, 69% can name the vice president. It's a sad number, but far higher than your proposed 11%. And you're going to claim to know where I get my news? I can easily guess where you get yours.
I also find it quite amusing how you think all these polls and stats you state are so accurate that you can claim 8% support for impeachment. You actually may be more out of touch with reality than the White House.
The Green party has hundreds of people in local government. They're having trouble getting many people to the federal level. Getting more Green representatives and eventually senators elected is a really tough problem for them. I think so far they have the best shot for being a serious contender.
I looked up gerrymandering just to make sure it means what I thought it means. I found this very interesting and humorous...
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander , from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favor his party: the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added), was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.
The problem isn't that the general public isn't supporting it. The problem is the mainstream media can's say the word "impeachment" without almost laughing. They talk about it like it's a silly passing throught. If they took it seriously they'd report it seriously and discuss it. The general public would easily support it being Cheney is hated even more than Bush. But most of the public doesn't know anyone is actually working towards impeachment hearings while in fact a lot of work has been going on across the country. The mainstream media needs to properly report it.
In 2003 Microsoft listed Open Source in their SEC filings as a threat to their business model. Before then they mostly ignored it. Then it was "a cancer." And now they pretend to like open source. I hardly consider them "on the wagon" as much as realizing they must augment some of their practices in order to compete affectively.
While you are correct, it has value as being accurate foresight. So the question is, was it just an observation or did it become a self-fulfilling prophecy? If it was a self-fulfilling prophecy then what other judgements can we make now that may drive technology in the future?
While true at face value, the purchases today are probably mostly from people who would buy the PC with Vista or XP. Either way they're buying a Windows license, so assuming the OEM price is the same, it financially makes no difference to Microsoft.
If anything people were not buying a PC because it would only come with Vista. Which means no sale at all for Microsoft. So Microsoft overall makes more money by at least selling another copy of XP.
Of course there are secondary costs, like lower sales figures for their "flagship product", which could keep their stock price stagnant. But that's another story.
I guess some people don't really care if a truck driver that gets drunk and kills a few people while driving, is allowed to drive in Montana because he hasn't been revoked there.
Wow, you're right! No one would ever get behind the wheel of a vehicle without a proper license! Problem solved.
You're kidding, right? You do know lots of people drive without a license. They're not usually caught until they're in an accident.
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Um, yes. Not every webmaster is incompetent. Having malware through a generally respectable ad agency, for example, may be no fault of the webmaster. Why would it hurt to wait one week to put the feature on the front-end of Google, and informing webmaster through their tool first? One week wouldn't make any significant difference when the new version of this feature doesn't even exist today.
Instead of just flagging sites for users, they should first add the detailed information to the Google Webmaster Tools. If it's third party software that's the problem inform the webmasters (at least those who use Google's tools) so they can take it down. Granted, it's their own fault for using third party software without enough investigation, but let them fix the problem before they're flagged for end users.
Ghostbusters took six weeks!
And that was one of my favorites back on the C64. It was very addictive. This really shows it's the overall creativity and playability that matters most in a game, not necessarily the complexity or graphics.
Interesting coincidence that it's posted on the same day as someone from Microsoft belittling the Wii for its lesser graphics and simplicity. Doesn't make it less fun!
Gabrielle Carteris, is that you?
My understanding is that the biggest bottlenecks are usually the hubs or switch boxes, not the cable itself. In my apartment building, for example, the cable company has told us that the reason for the slowdowns at night when most people are online is from the switch box in the basement, not the cables up to the apartments or the cables out to the company.
When Verizon came in and installed FiOS they claimed a big advantage is the fibers go straight out the buildings to their offices, not slowed down by intermediary switches like cable.
This is all hearsay, but it's from the two competing companies with competing technologies, so it sounds about right.
You're implying Microsoft didn't invent browser tabs. Or interface tabs at all for that matter. Next you'll probably be telling everyone they didn't invent the web browser!
Man, the crazy things people post to slashdot these days...
Can someone point me at a single Open sourced project that offers the same, or at least equivalent, service as the closed source version? I'm not just talking about technical specifications or functionality of the app itself, but also service, support, AND legal responsibility.
Firefox. Back when I was using IE and I had an MSDN account I didn't get any more support than the Firefox user community has given me. Patches for Firefox are released a lot faster and all known vulnerabilities are announced. IE sure didn't handle legal responsibility more than FF. I got far more from the free open source browser than the $15K per year MSDN account and IE.
You may also want to look at companies like RedHat and IBM who provide the same level of service for Linux as is offered for the closed source competition.
Why not just use frames?
(Kidding, kidding...)
That's not completely accurate. In many common setups sudo allows certain users to only execute certain applications. For example, on a web server I'm looking at right now I can sudo nano but I don't have permission to sudo svn. It explicitly states that the current user doesn't have permission to execute that application.
It's no joke. They really do believe they invented the idea:
Patent #6,775,781
While there's no such thing as perfect, we can still try to get reasonably close. For elections we can sure get a lot closer to real accuracy. A few people will always claim it's fixed. But when you have multiple documentary films, books, and protests there's obviously something wrong.
I programmed with the Jet DB "engine" years ago. I wouldn't even run a web site with it. The only thing I found it useful for was business applications, such as connecting an Excel spreadsheet to Access. But that was years and years ago. Why would anyone write such a large and critical system using Jet today, when even Microsoft tells you not to? The only answer is incompetence.
Ok, troll, 69% can name the vice president. It's a sad number, but far higher than your proposed 11%. And you're going to claim to know where I get my news? I can easily guess where you get yours.
I also find it quite amusing how you think all these polls and stats you state are so accurate that you can claim 8% support for impeachment. You actually may be more out of touch with reality than the White House.
The Green party has hundreds of people in local government. They're having trouble getting many people to the federal level. Getting more Green representatives and eventually senators elected is a really tough problem for them. I think so far they have the best shot for being a serious contender.
The problem isn't that the general public isn't supporting it. The problem is the mainstream media can's say the word "impeachment" without almost laughing. They talk about it like it's a silly passing throught. If they took it seriously they'd report it seriously and discuss it. The general public would easily support it being Cheney is hated even more than Bush. But most of the public doesn't know anyone is actually working towards impeachment hearings while in fact a lot of work has been going on across the country. The mainstream media needs to properly report it.
In 2003 Microsoft listed Open Source in their SEC filings as a threat to their business model. Before then they mostly ignored it. Then it was "a cancer." And now they pretend to like open source. I hardly consider them "on the wagon" as much as realizing they must augment some of their practices in order to compete affectively.
Why debate if a well made observation hurts or hinders the industry when it's the industry doing it to itself?!
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Because it sells ad space on a web page which has been slashdotted. Duh.
While you are correct, it has value as being accurate foresight. So the question is, was it just an observation or did it become a self-fulfilling prophecy? If it was a self-fulfilling prophecy then what other judgements can we make now that may drive technology in the future?
but why do they even measure these things at all?
I'm not trying to troll. I just don't see the point.
While true at face value, the purchases today are probably mostly from people who would buy the PC with Vista or XP. Either way they're buying a Windows license, so assuming the OEM price is the same, it financially makes no difference to Microsoft.
If anything people were not buying a PC because it would only come with Vista. Which means no sale at all for Microsoft. So Microsoft overall makes more money by at least selling another copy of XP.
Of course there are secondary costs, like lower sales figures for their "flagship product", which could keep their stock price stagnant. But that's another story.
If anything, an unbiased observer would see this as a good thing, maybe the best thing possible
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I guess some people don't really care if a truck driver that gets drunk and kills a few people while driving, is allowed to drive in Montana because he hasn't been revoked there.
Wow, you're right! No one would ever get behind the wheel of a vehicle without a proper license! Problem solved.
You're kidding, right? You do know lots of people drive without a license. They're not usually caught until they're in an accident.
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Something must have short circuited in in your partisan brain, but this would be a right wing conspiracy.
We all know the truth has a liberal bias. Therefore this must be a left wing conspiracy.