While I knew Britannica has inaccuracies, and while I know inaccuracies often remain for quite a while there due to their revision model, I didn't believe it would fare that well, and rather that it would have much less but staying for a longer time. 42 entries may be a small sample size though; I'd rather see a few hundreds in a larger test, and also from more than science.
now our great great grandchildren might look up at the heavens at the planet georgium bushus
Not considering the fact that not all of us here may have great great grandchildren, I thought it would be going to be renamed to Urectum by then to avoid those jokes?;)
I have good Faith in that unless this is a Willow, she'll have a little Angel orbiting it called "Xander", that rises in the Dawn during its frosty winters as well as its icy Summers... Too bad there's not even an Oz. of hospitality to humans there, or it would be nice to visit this body, forever Chasing through space.:-p
Hmm, I have to wonder though if it was a comment on how embedded fonts aren't standardized natively by browsers instead of having to use e.g. Flash. That is, problems showing your font without having to use plugins, or use another font that you intended. There are some methods of pulling this off, but one can of course not expect readers to have these things installed.
Flash can be pretty cool if used right. Check this out for example: Flash Text Formatter.
A text box that doesn't disrupt page flow more than you set it to, and supports color coded text via a backend XML file. Pretty useful for ease of writing easily readable program code examples.
It also supports cut/copy/paste and selections. The only downside seem to be that it doesn't real-time color code, however, you can set it to show a button for it at least.
For those who don't keep up to date with Windows Vista's and Office 12's new general purpose fonts to succeed Trebuchet, Verdana, etc, here's what he's talking about:
Personally, I agree that these fonts look good and professional (I like Consolas too as the new monospace font, it always annoyed me that Courier / Courier New had tons of "serifs" or whatever you'd call all those pointy things). Microsoft does some things pretty good -- web fonts, like Verdana and these new ones, and computer mice are two.:-)
I wouldn't call it spyware, as it doesn't feel to me like it's more spying than what a tourist does with a camera when visiting a country. It's all upfront, nothing hidden, much like Google's upfront privacy policy in clear text:
Google collects personal information when you register for a Google service or otherwise voluntarily provide such information. We may combine personal information collected from you with information from other Google services or third parties to provide a better user experience, including customizing content for you.
...
Google's servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
Nothing they try to hide deep down in some obscure EULA or anything. Sure, it's about collecting data, but there's a difference between collecting data, and collecting data by spying. The former is about doing it visibly, the other trying to hide it.
Besides, technically speaking, I'm not sure one should call a business model or an online service "spyware" anyway, as it's usually a term used for client-side software often piggybacking on another tool, that secretly phones home by using an internet connection.
Yeah, because when holodiscs have arrived, no one will think of using DRM anymore? You know both that DRM will be a problem on all BD-ROM discs and it won't be on holodiscs... how?
It may well be that the transition is worth doing in the long run, but simply spending money for no reason isn't a net plus.
Of course they have to look at the long run, they can not exactly wait for it to happen so they only need to look at the short term, since then they'll need to both rush a transition (and you do not want to rush a nation-wide infrastructure transition) and even risk losing connectivity with parts of the world before they're done. That wouldn't be such a big deal if there was no profits to make from global Internet connectivity, but there are obvious reasons this is very useful, even essential to many companies' survivability today. I have to wonder what's Google's stance about this for example, as they've worked mostly internationally from the start, especially with their business model of AdWords.
So by doing this, there's a cost, sure, but is not doing it even an option? Sometimes necessary progress cost money.
Not that you're saying so, speaking in general I think it's pretty naïve to believe the Internet population isn't steadily increasing, especially in the fields of ad hoc networking and mobility, where you often want direct IP address connectivities for p2p networking. One can read a surprisingly technical press release from Nokia about this and the IPv4 growing pains here, so there are clearly markets that would thrive under IPv6 that they can't easily do today, which should say "profit!" to any analyst of the growing mobile market.
This "movie" at RottenTomatoes. Yay, a 10% rating.
It's pretty obvious to me the "reviewer" above was making an advertisement for his site on Slashdot (compare the author URL with the "review" URL, it sure is becoming common these days), and gets a boner from Charlize Theron.
I think "bläk" is more of a dialect of "blä". It has the same meaning anyway, and although the latter is more common here, I still hear the former occasionally.:)
This is apparently done by artificially creating zero-G environments.
Which can't be done for a very long duration at a time, right?
What got me wondering first when reading this was how they can all get a game going during that short time, let alone start building an entire league around it! But then again, sumo wrestling matches are usually over within seconds, so maybe I shouldn't open my mouth here.:-)
They aren't placing IE in a virtual machine or anything, they're trying to fix zone spoofing by changing the feature. It is a design problem after all.
I'll be honest, I haven't followed the Vista track that closely, but I have yet to hear of any evolutional or even revolutional features that I can look forward to.
I don't think Slashdot is the best place to ask this question on, as you'll no doubt get the "no, Vista is reskinned XP".
Personally, I don't think an evolutionary OS have to be "innovative", just better. Goes for Linux just as it goes for Vista.
The problem is that if you keep the mouse button depressed when you move out of the map area, it won't know if you release the mouse button later until you click it somewhere in the map area. But by then you've probably dragged away the map by mistake.:-p
Crashes may be signs of buffer overruns and access violations, which is a bad thing not only from the app's and user's perspective, but also from a security perspective, e.g. if the memory space was prepared earlier with malicious code.
The only thing I can imagine is that he meant "call it safer, but it isn't really", however that's false according to all independent info I've seen about open exploits and their seriousness.
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While I knew Britannica has inaccuracies, and while I know inaccuracies often remain for quite a while there due to their revision model, I didn't believe it would fare that well, and rather that it would have much less but staying for a longer time. 42 entries may be a small sample size though; I'd rather see a few hundreds in a larger test, and also from more than science.
now our great great grandchildren might look up at the heavens at the planet georgium bushus
;)
Not considering the fact that not all of us here may have great great grandchildren, I thought it would be going to be renamed to Urectum by then to avoid those jokes?
I have good Faith in that unless this is a Willow, she'll have a little Angel orbiting it called "Xander", that rises in the Dawn during its frosty winters as well as its icy Summers... Too bad there's not even an Oz. of hospitality to humans there, or it would be nice to visit this body, forever Chasing through space. :-p
Hmm, are you using poor fonts and/or rendering?
I'm seeing this (you may need to click the image for full size) and can't really say italics is much harder to read really.
Hmm, I have to wonder though if it was a comment on how embedded fonts aren't standardized natively by browsers instead of having to use e.g. Flash. That is, problems showing your font without having to use plugins, or use another font that you intended. There are some methods of pulling this off, but one can of course not expect readers to have these things installed.
Flash can be pretty cool if used right. Check this out for example: Flash Text Formatter.
A text box that doesn't disrupt page flow more than you set it to, and supports color coded text via a backend XML file. Pretty useful for ease of writing easily readable program code examples.
It also supports cut/copy/paste and selections. The only downside seem to be that it doesn't real-time color code, however, you can set it to show a button for it at least.
7 out of 10 and never used a Mac, not bad ;-)
For those who don't keep up to date with Windows Vista's and Office 12's new general purpose fonts to succeed Trebuchet, Verdana, etc, here's what he's talking about:
:-)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
More characters and better previews here, but in Flash:
http://www.poynterextra.org/msfonts/
Personally, I agree that these fonts look good and professional (I like Consolas too as the new monospace font, it always annoyed me that Courier / Courier New had tons of "serifs" or whatever you'd call all those pointy things). Microsoft does some things pretty good -- web fonts, like Verdana and these new ones, and computer mice are two.
Nothing they try to hide deep down in some obscure EULA or anything. Sure, it's about collecting data, but there's a difference between collecting data, and collecting data by spying. The former is about doing it visibly, the other trying to hide it.
Besides, technically speaking, I'm not sure one should call a business model or an online service "spyware" anyway, as it's usually a term used for client-side software often piggybacking on another tool, that secretly phones home by using an internet connection.
But why won't you think the same when 300GB discs are introduced.
Tech is always moving at a rather extreme speed.
Yeah, because when holodiscs have arrived, no one will think of using DRM anymore?
You know both that DRM will be a problem on all BD-ROM discs and it won't be on holodiscs... how?
So popular online resources are now geek? :-s
AOL is geek too?
It may well be that the transition is worth doing in the long run, but simply spending money for no reason isn't a net plus.
Of course they have to look at the long run, they can not exactly wait for it to happen so they only need to look at the short term, since then they'll need to both rush a transition (and you do not want to rush a nation-wide infrastructure transition) and even risk losing connectivity with parts of the world before they're done. That wouldn't be such a big deal if there was no profits to make from global Internet connectivity, but there are obvious reasons this is very useful, even essential to many companies' survivability today. I have to wonder what's Google's stance about this for example, as they've worked mostly internationally from the start, especially with their business model of AdWords.
So by doing this, there's a cost, sure, but is not doing it even an option? Sometimes necessary progress cost money.
Not that you're saying so, speaking in general I think it's pretty naïve to believe the Internet population isn't steadily increasing, especially in the fields of ad hoc networking and mobility, where you often want direct IP address connectivities for p2p networking. One can read a surprisingly technical press release from Nokia about this and the IPv4 growing pains here, so there are clearly markets that would thrive under IPv6 that they can't easily do today, which should say "profit!" to any analyst of the growing mobile market.
This "movie" at RottenTomatoes. Yay, a 10% rating.
It's pretty obvious to me the "reviewer" above was making an advertisement for his site on Slashdot (compare the author URL with the "review" URL, it sure is becoming common these days), and gets a boner from Charlize Theron.
I think "bläk" is more of a dialect of "blä". :)
It has the same meaning anyway, and although the latter is more common here, I still hear the former occasionally.
Bellsouth, like many ISPs, use airport city codes in the RR to show the nearest city. bna is Nashville International Airport.
:-)
And the lazy man's option...
65.81.97.208 yields
Region: TENNESSEE
City: NASHVILLE
ISP: BELLSOUTH.NET INC
This is apparently done by artificially creating zero-G environments.
:-)
Which can't be done for a very long duration at a time, right?
What got me wondering first when reading this was how they can all get a game going during that short time, let alone start building an entire league around it! But then again, sumo wrestling matches are usually over within seconds, so maybe I shouldn't open my mouth here.
They aren't placing IE in a virtual machine or anything, they're trying to fix zone spoofing by changing the feature. It is a design problem after all.
I'll be honest, I haven't followed the Vista track that closely, but I have yet to hear of any evolutional or even revolutional features that I can look forward to.
I don't think Slashdot is the best place to ask this question on, as you'll no doubt get the "no, Vista is reskinned XP".
Personally, I don't think an evolutionary OS have to be "innovative", just better. Goes for Linux just as it goes for Vista.
Anyway, here's an Vista edition comparison and here's a more detailed list of planned features.
From TFAS:
They claim to already have an 80% success rate in production.
And TFA:
Single-layer BD-ROM discs are currently being produced on the pilot line with more than 80% yield rates.
So keep in mind that figure wasn't about the 50 GB discs talked about in the article, and what's news here.
Use http://www.xe.com/ucc
:-)
But this is Slashdot, shouldn't we use Google instead?
Happens on Opera as well.
:-p
The problem is that if you keep the mouse button depressed when you move out of the map area, it won't know if you release the mouse button later until you click it somewhere in the map area. But by then you've probably dragged away the map by mistake.
Crashes may be signs of buffer overruns and access violations, which is a bad thing not only from the app's and user's perspective, but also from a security perspective, e.g. if the memory space was prepared earlier with malicious code.
The only thing I can imagine is that he meant "call it safer, but it isn't really", however that's false according to all independent info I've seen about open exploits and their seriousness.
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