THE FREE DOMAIN NAME A domain name is what comes before the ".com" in a Web address - like NYTimes.com, verizonwireless.com or MarryMeBritney.com. Getting your own personal dot-com name has its privileges - for example, your e-mail address can be You@YourNameHere.com - but it costs money and requires some expertise.
It took Microsoft, of all companies, to make getting your own dot-com name free. Its new Office Live online software suite for small businesses, now in testing, will offer a domain name, Web site and e-mail accounts free.
So, in essence he's saying it wasn't a "gadget" of 2005? It's neither a gadget, nor in 2005.
*sigh*
That article looks to be written by a quite confused tech column writer.
look! ive play all teh quake and gta gamez and im not stupider than any1 else i kno... and if u belive it amkes ppl crazy or sumthin i just hav 1 thing to say u... im gonna fucking eat ur children!! yea u heard me right... im gonna do that and then eat ur fuckin ears like mike tyson and kill hookers like they do in gta... omg thats awesome lol dont u think
so u fuckin losers get a life video gamez dont affect u!!!
"On the core side we have fixed many crashes and we have also added support for opacity. These are just some of the things happening in our cubicles right now."
On a Richtext Editing component?
Same here, although I think there are some bugs still in the non-final Opera 9 Preview 1, but it's a planned feature anyway.
This is with an margin of error of 1.22% which means that survey results may vary by 1.22% in either direction.
... which might just be enough to reverse the article title and much of what's being said in the summary. So in this case, it could still mean quite a bit.
Note that it's a self fulfilling prophecy: because no HD-DVD will be available, no one is going to make a game with 45 gigs of textures. Whereas they certainly would if HD-DVD was shipped standard.
Are you sure? I mean, is the Xbox hardware even able to use that well? Graphics card and RAM memory limitations, etc. If this puts an upper cap on detail levels on the loaded textures, all that remains is using all that storage for textures in today's resolutions, but instead having tons of textures. But in that case, will the games even be far reaching enough to use that? What about game development costs to make games using over 5 times as many textures as today?
I think it's more about hardware limitations, and have an easier time believing 45 GB textures coming to use on future consoles than on the Xbox 360.
Contrary to a myth promoted by Microsoft and others, you simply can't use a computer without having to learn anything.
The problem, at least if Linux is to embrace desktop users more in the future, is that most users will have used Windows before, so that's what they're familiar with. The pressure is therefore logically higher on Linux to improve in this field than Windows, as that's the OS to relearn for. It would be the other way around if Linux was dominating Windows.
Oh and about the broadband phone service, it's to avoid regular telephone companies with their network fees etc altogether of course. Competition on an entirely different level than between Traditional Phone Company A and B that still provides their services on a network of Network Owner C (who charge for the traffic). With broadband phone, the provider usually owns its network to large extents == nice for competition. They have a lot more flexibility in how to charge, and more importantly for the customer, how NOT to charge.
How does faster broadband actually impact your Net usage?
What I can think of right now:
- Much faster downloads. - Broadband TV -- very good digital TV quality, good reliability, good channel selections. - Broadband Phone (i.e. via a box to connect between the fiber connector in your wall and your regular phone -- not software-based / Skype) - Movie-on-demand services.
And yes, fast (10 Mbps+) broadband services affect me this way right now over here.
I used to like this one: Archive Comparison Test, but unfortunately it hasn't seen updates since 2002 for general data compression. However, that's still in the post-WinRAR 3.00 era, and the Windows archiver summary explains a bit why WinRK may win here, but still not be too well-known. Good compression isn't everything -- one often have to keep the speed aspect in mind too. And when you've then picked an archiver with nice compression for the speed, you may start looking at the feature set. Again WinRK isn't state-of-the-art there. It's mostly a pure no frills compressor where you can ignore durations, especially for large archives. Not nearly "an archiver for everyone".
Personally, after a couple of years of testing things out (OK, make that a decade -- time flies), I believe RAR by far exceed most archivers' features nowadays, and also hit the sweet spot of good compression for reasonably good speeds. I think RAR trumps both WinZIP 10, 7-zip, bzip2, and all other common archivers you throw at it as for features, and does really well in the compression field for being so all-around. It can decompress most common archive formats too. For a lower cost than WinZIP, while to me looking just as easy to use.
WinACE was once an archiver preferred by some over RAR, but it sort of died out due to a lack of updates, or at least a lagging behind by RAR's improvements. What once looked promising there now looks more like a rarely used RAR-wannabe to me.
7-zip is the one other archiver that has recently caught my attention because it's open source and generally compress better than RAR, still at pretty good speeds. However, it's nowhere near RAR's feature set and lacks pretty large chunks of important features for me to use it still, but I keep having an eye on it, and I don't dislike it at all, and can clearly understand why some prefer it. 7-zip has become my favorite over bzip2 (in turn over gzip) now as my favorite open source archiver, and its cross-platform support is looking better these days with OS X, Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo support, although unofficial, directly from its home page.
When will they realize that just because it's blurred out in the picture, doesn't mean the building disappeared?
Yes, and even worse for them, the original map didn't disappear. At least if they're going for "Google Earth images" and Google's service. They're just reusing already public material.
That's the first time I've heard a meteor impact referred to as "explosion on moon spreads moondust".
I'm no astronomer so I'm not sure it's written that way and posted here on Slashdot because it's really something notable just having happened, or it's just a one among thousands of meteor impact caught with a camera?
He also declined to give any details on the agreement, saying the terms were confidential and that all parties had agreed to make no other statements to the media regarding it.
I for one welcome our new possessed Google overlords. OK, not really.:-(
Actually, it doesn't matter *that* much which you pick thanks to the plenty of similarities.
I learnt Java first as part of a uni course -- early adopters loved Java a lot in 1998. I basically learnt nothing else besides some basic C and assembler there and it was pretty much Java > all. I then learnt C++ with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) at work as an example of Microsoft's dominance in the software development business, and felt Java had helped me tremendously when doing so to get the OOP concepts down. It would've been even easier if it was about going from Java -> C# or vice versa. After that I learnt C# and that wasn't too hard with Java and C++ as a foundation. After all, that merge is in many aspects pretty much what C# is anyway with its support for more C++ constructs than Java along with unsafe code support, while retaining huge amounts of Java high level stuff such as the sandbox model and garbage collection.
So, my suggestion is that don't miss learning C++ if you're going out in the software development business. At least here, if neglecting web / online services, C++ and VB (6 and.NET) is king.
As for web service development etc, I guess whether Java or C# is more suitable depends on which company/companies you'll work on, but regardless which one, the other should be easy enough to learn when having learnt the first. They're so similar that it's mostly just about learning the class libraries that will take time, not as much about the languages themselves.
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Or break your ties to a specific browser and just use a proxy like Privoxy.
Some of it isn't even accurate...
THE FREE DOMAIN NAME A domain name is what comes before the ".com" in a Web address - like NYTimes.com, verizonwireless.com or MarryMeBritney.com. Getting your own personal dot-com name has its privileges - for example, your e-mail address can be You@YourNameHere.com - but it costs money and requires some expertise.
It took Microsoft, of all companies, to make getting your own dot-com name free. Its new Office Live online software suite for small businesses, now in testing, will offer a domain name, Web site and e-mail accounts free.
So, in essence he's saying it wasn't a "gadget" of 2005? It's neither a gadget, nor in 2005.
*sigh*
That article looks to be written by a quite confused tech column writer.
look! ive play all teh quake and gta gamez and im not stupider than any1 else i kno... and if u belive it amkes ppl crazy or sumthin i just hav 1 thing to say u... im gonna fucking eat ur children!! yea u heard me right... im gonna do that and then eat ur fuckin ears like mike tyson and kill hookers like they do in gta... omg thats awesome lol dont u think
so u fuckin losers get a life video gamez dont affect u!!!
But because of the faked User Agent by default, I can't detect Opera and include changes to CSS to make it behave properly.
Hmm... But Opera shows it's Opera even when set to identify as IE.
Opera 8.50 as IE on XP:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50
Opera 9.0 Preview 1 as Opera on Windows 2000:
Opera/9.0 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en)
Opera 8.50 as Mozilla on XP:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.50
You simply need to scan the entire user string for the "Opera" substring and you should be OK.
3. HTML/CSS/JS
This wasn't a question, but just for completeness:
- Web specs supported in Opera 8 .
(note, not the upcoming 9, which is getting a number of standards improvements)
- Changelog for Opera 9.0 Preview 1
(includes an incomplete list of standards improvement for Opera 9)
Any word on opacity support?
- Merling evolving: (Merlin is the code name for Opera 9)
On a Richtext Editing component?
Same here, although I think there are some bugs still in the non-final Opera 9 Preview 1, but it's a planned feature anyway.
See also: document.designMode is here!
Note that it's a self fulfilling prophecy: because no HD-DVD will be available, no one is going to make a game with 45 gigs of textures. Whereas they certainly would if HD-DVD was shipped standard.
Are you sure? I mean, is the Xbox hardware even able to use that well? Graphics card and RAM memory limitations, etc. If this puts an upper cap on detail levels on the loaded textures, all that remains is using all that storage for textures in today's resolutions, but instead having tons of textures. But in that case, will the games even be far reaching enough to use that? What about game development costs to make games using over 5 times as many textures as today?
I think it's more about hardware limitations, and have an easier time believing 45 GB textures coming to use on future consoles than on the Xbox 360.
Blogs are just authoritative statements from non-authorities who want their narcisistic rush.
Some are, maybe even a lot, but stop generalizing.
What a waste of time...
Contrary to a myth promoted by Microsoft and others, you simply can't use a computer without having to learn anything.
The problem, at least if Linux is to embrace desktop users more in the future, is that most users will have used Windows before, so that's what they're familiar with. The pressure is therefore logically higher on Linux to improve in this field than Windows, as that's the OS to relearn for. It would be the other way around if Linux was dominating Windows.
Of course, any Windows naming problems doesn't neglect that Linux has them too.
Maybe a more fair thing to say would be that both have their share of problems, and both should look to improve where possible for usability reasons.
So when should we stop? At 2 browsers? 4? 8?
I for one don't really believe in bundles, but rather the *lack* of them.
And yes, that includes Microsoft bundles.
I believe in choice though.
... is the day when software bundles is a Good Thing!
(err, right?)
Which is why your bolded word is "could", not "will", right?
Oh and about the broadband phone service, it's to avoid regular telephone companies with their network fees etc altogether of course. Competition on an entirely different level than between Traditional Phone Company A and B that still provides their services on a network of Network Owner C (who charge for the traffic). With broadband phone, the provider usually owns its network to large extents == nice for competition. They have a lot more flexibility in how to charge, and more importantly for the customer, how NOT to charge.
How does faster broadband actually impact your Net usage?
;-)
What I can think of right now:
- Much faster downloads.
- Broadband TV -- very good digital TV quality, good reliability, good channel selections.
- Broadband Phone (i.e. via a box to connect between the fiber connector in your wall and your regular phone -- not software-based / Skype)
- Movie-on-demand services.
And yes, fast (10 Mbps+) broadband services affect me this way right now over here.
This is not a speculative post.
... may the force be with you :-/
Can someone please explain why this was modded Troll?
Hmm, a guess. Belgian gov't != EU perhaps...?
This is exactly the sort of value system that the Eurocrats
Eurocrats? Say after me -- b-e-l-g-i-a-n-s.
There have been no signs of this, rather to the contrary, in the country of "Eurocrats" I live in,
Rebut it, or work to change it. Calling it "trolling" isn't going to help anyone.
But generalizing governments to cover international organizations do?
???
Would you immediately generalize in the same way to cover the policy of the entire US when it's about a whacky decision in one state?
I hope you do, as European countries are less tied to the EU than US states are to the USA.
I used to like this one: Archive Comparison Test, but unfortunately it hasn't seen updates since 2002 for general data compression. However, that's still in the post-WinRAR 3.00 era, and the Windows archiver summary explains a bit why WinRK may win here, but still not be too well-known. Good compression isn't everything -- one often have to keep the speed aspect in mind too. And when you've then picked an archiver with nice compression for the speed, you may start looking at the feature set. Again WinRK isn't state-of-the-art there. It's mostly a pure no frills compressor where you can ignore durations, especially for large archives. Not nearly "an archiver for everyone".
Personally, after a couple of years of testing things out (OK, make that a decade -- time flies), I believe RAR by far exceed most archivers' features nowadays, and also hit the sweet spot of good compression for reasonably good speeds. I think RAR trumps both WinZIP 10, 7-zip, bzip2, and all other common archivers you throw at it as for features, and does really well in the compression field for being so all-around. It can decompress most common archive formats too. For a lower cost than WinZIP, while to me looking just as easy to use.
WinACE was once an archiver preferred by some over RAR, but it sort of died out due to a lack of updates, or at least a lagging behind by RAR's improvements. What once looked promising there now looks more like a rarely used RAR-wannabe to me.
7-zip is the one other archiver that has recently caught my attention because it's open source and generally compress better than RAR, still at pretty good speeds. However, it's nowhere near RAR's feature set and lacks pretty large chunks of important features for me to use it still, but I keep having an eye on it, and I don't dislike it at all, and can clearly understand why some prefer it. 7-zip has become my favorite over bzip2 (in turn over gzip) now as my favorite open source archiver, and its cross-platform support is looking better these days with OS X, Debian, Fedora, and Gentoo support, although unofficial, directly from its home page.
When will they realize that just because it's blurred out in the picture, doesn't mean the building disappeared?
Yes, and even worse for them, the original map didn't disappear. At least if they're going for "Google Earth images" and Google's service. They're just reusing already public material.
That's the first time I've heard a meteor impact referred to as "explosion on moon spreads moondust".
I'm no astronomer so I'm not sure it's written that way and posted here on Slashdot because it's really something notable just having happened, or it's just a one among thousands of meteor impact caught with a camera?
He also declined to give any details on the agreement, saying the terms were confidential and that all parties had agreed to make no other statements to the media regarding it.
:-(
I for one welcome our new possessed Google overlords. OK, not really.
Actually, it doesn't matter *that* much which you pick thanks to the plenty of similarities.
.NET) is king.
I learnt Java first as part of a uni course -- early adopters loved Java a lot in 1998. I basically learnt nothing else besides some basic C and assembler there and it was pretty much Java > all. I then learnt C++ with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) at work as an example of Microsoft's dominance in the software development business, and felt Java had helped me tremendously when doing so to get the OOP concepts down. It would've been even easier if it was about going from Java -> C# or vice versa. After that I learnt C# and that wasn't too hard with Java and C++ as a foundation. After all, that merge is in many aspects pretty much what C# is anyway with its support for more C++ constructs than Java along with unsafe code support, while retaining huge amounts of Java high level stuff such as the sandbox model and garbage collection.
So, my suggestion is that don't miss learning C++ if you're going out in the software development business. At least here, if neglecting web / online services, C++ and VB (6 and
As for web service development etc, I guess whether Java or C# is more suitable depends on which company/companies you'll work on, but regardless which one, the other should be easy enough to learn when having learnt the first. They're so similar that it's mostly just about learning the class libraries that will take time, not as much about the languages themselves.
LOL, did Ballmer piss in your bed this morning? :-)