So is that article correct, or the replies to it saying otherwise referring to Birkhoff's Theory (moves at speed of light) or things like this, or this
"Second, observations of some neutron star binaries (with at least one member a pulsar) show decaying orbits. The rates of decay very nicely match the hypothesis that energy is being lost from the systems in the form of gravitational radiation, as predicted by GR (some hard working scientists got Nobels for this). Since gravity travels at c in GR, these results provide indirect support for GR and the speed of gravity being c (this is explained in more detail in the Baez page)."
I'm not sure you can arrogantly just go "wrong, period" on this one. In that case you at least need to show why the other theories aren't true.
It's funny, but you make a good point in that it doesn't really depend on if you're on the first page or not, but on if you're on the first X matches or not, and with an advantage if that happens to be the first page. At least that's how it is to me. Say a search engine had triple the amount of matches per page as Google. I'm not sure it would be an as big advantage as it is on Google now.
Yes, I was just thinking this might be search engine competition at work. Seems a bit of too much of a coincidence that MS introduce their web search with local searches just days before Google introduce theirs. However, I believe MS is actually doing a better job at local searching, since it had working news search for my country, which news.google.com lacks, and also a yellow pages feature that worked very well for me too. Meanwhile, Google's thing don't really even work internationally.
I wonder what Slashdot editors use since they obviously don't get annoyed enough to fix it. Surely not all are on Mac's and Safari, so that leaves IE or Konqueror?
Skype is special only in that it works behind a firewall, in my opinion.
I personally think the multi-platform nature it's starting to develop along with abilities to call regular phones will give it an edge. It's also important to be easy to use, and as you say need a minimum of configuration. We're talking basic things like chatting with people, which anyone should be able to without consulting technicians.:-)
Why is this piece of shit getting all the hype? MSN, NetMeeting and Gnomemeeting could do all this PLUS video chat
Because none of that exist for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Pocket PC? With ability to call regular phones and traverse NATs and firewalls without configuration?
They haven't develop software with spyware? And they'd be in deep shit for saying it didn't contain stuff it did, with no disclaimers. These are the guys that developed the FastTrack network btw, not filled Kazaa with spyware, as is a common misunderstanding.;-)
It's hard at least on BT since the trackers can be moderated. And it's work for the highschoolers to create.torrent files and upload them unlike just clicking to share a 1,000 file directory of junk. I'd think their attention span is often short enough for them to just settle with leeching from BT trackers.;-)
windows wins hands down in installing. because the developers for apps are not morons expecting their users to hunt down 30-50 obscure libs and install them to run their app.
Umm, it's normal for package installers on Linux to make use of the dependency information for a package to find those "30-50 obscure libs". The tech is already there, and if someone keeps making broken packages for install, it's the author that makes broken installs.
No - the point is that *you* installed it... *you* set it up... a geek was needed to get this beast working smoothly, and that shouldn't be the case.
Believe me, I know a whole lot of people who find installing Windows XP being a trouble since they'll have to find drivers, configure network settings, etc. So I don't think Windows XP is much more ready for the installing novice than Ubuntu is.
They should make a total conversion for e.g. Doom 3 that generates a level representing your hard drive and the larger executable apps there is, the nastier monsters they are. Beware entering Borg Space (the Windows folder)!:-o
Antivirus integration with such a game would let it represent trojans as... hmm... mimics?:-)
That's interaction I'd like to see. Blow up Internet Explorer once and for all with a BFG.
It's serving me octet streams for its web pages, so it asks me to download them.
Firefox got confused on http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/ as well -- "document contains no data".
Even the default Apache settings get these basic things right. *sigh*
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" virtually bug free,"
Hmm, but one would need to brace oneself for new bugs due to the much more varied PC hardware => having to rely on third party developers => having to accept they might break your stable OS. That's basically the major cause of instability for Windows XP that I can see today. Fortunately, there are WHQL certified drivers so it became less of an issue when those were introduced. Just saying that with Apple hardware, you're staying away from a heck of a lot of problems in the formula of giving drivers direct hardware acccess for decent perfomance while keeping the whole thing stable.
While the author of the article see that Google is increasing its lead, he think it will narrow in the future due to new exciting features e.g. Yahoo has to offer?
He fail to mention anything about MSN Search and A9 closing any gaps. And in November, Google increased the searches on sites owned by them with 5.3 percentage units and Yahoo with 1.1. He then goes ahead and speaks of gain in USA, but again fails to mention what they would be.
If he's saying that as long as these companies keep pushing new products, they're gaining a lead, I don't really agree with that. They need to be successful with that first...:-p Bogged down "portals" with tons of clutter comes into mind.
* = It tells you why the WWW was made... "Tim decided that high energy physics needed a networked hypertext system and CERN was an ideal site for the development of wide-area hypertext ideas"
** = excerpt: "Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990."
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I'm not sure you can arrogantly just go "wrong, period" on this one. In that case you at least need to show why the other theories aren't true.
It's funny, but you make a good point in that it doesn't really depend on if you're on the first page or not, but on if you're on the first X matches or not, and with an advantage if that happens to be the first page. At least that's how it is to me. Say a search engine had triple the amount of matches per page as Google. I'm not sure it would be an as big advantage as it is on Google now.
Yes, I was just thinking this might be search engine competition at work. Seems a bit of too much of a coincidence that MS introduce their web search with local searches just days before Google introduce theirs. However, I believe MS is actually doing a better job at local searching, since it had working news search for my country, which news.google.com lacks, and also a yellow pages feature that worked very well for me too. Meanwhile, Google's thing don't really even work internationally.
But who knows what will happen next time around?
It might be a bad install if the BSOD's keep reoccuring like they've done lately.
I suggest a reformat and a reinstall of a new european commission.
Yeah.
I wonder what Slashdot editors use since they obviously don't get annoyed enough to fix it. Surely not all are on Mac's and Safari, so that leaves IE or Konqueror?
Who cares about the UI?
;-)
Slashdot, but only when the coding is bad.
Hmm, maybe they should switch approval company?
Surely there are "working" ones as I've never had that kind of trouble before when paying over the internet.
Skype is special only in that it works behind a firewall, in my opinion.
:-)
I personally think the multi-platform nature it's starting to develop along with abilities to call regular phones will give it an edge. It's also important to be easy to use, and as you say need a minimum of configuration. We're talking basic things like chatting with people, which anyone should be able to without consulting technicians.
Why is this piece of shit getting all the hype? MSN, NetMeeting and Gnomemeeting could do all this PLUS video chat
Because none of that exist for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Pocket PC? With ability to call regular phones and traverse NATs and firewalls without configuration?
What motivation do you have to trust them?
;-)
They haven't develop software with spyware? And they'd be in deep shit for saying it didn't contain stuff it did, with no disclaimers. These are the guys that developed the FastTrack network btw, not filled Kazaa with spyware, as is a common misunderstanding.
It's hard at least on BT since the trackers can be moderated. And it's work for the highschoolers to create .torrent files and upload them unlike just clicking to share a 1,000 file directory of junk. I'd think their attention span is often short enough for them to just settle with leeching from BT trackers. ;-)
Yeah, seems like he had a brain after all.
windows wins hands down in installing. because the developers for apps are not morons expecting their users to hunt down 30-50 obscure libs and install them to run their app.
Umm, it's normal for package installers on Linux to make use of the dependency information for a package to find those "30-50 obscure libs". The tech is already there, and if someone keeps making broken packages for install, it's the author that makes broken installs.
No - the point is that *you* installed it... *you* set it up... a geek was needed to get this beast working smoothly, and that shouldn't be the case.
Believe me, I know a whole lot of people who find installing Windows XP being a trouble since they'll have to find drivers, configure network settings, etc. So I don't think Windows XP is much more ready for the installing novice than Ubuntu is.
I need the email of Linus Torvalds. Please email me. :)
Isn't it...
torvalds at transmeta dot com
?
They should make a total conversion for e.g. Doom 3 that generates a level representing your hard drive and the larger executable apps there is, the nastier monsters they are. Beware entering Borg Space (the Windows folder)! :-o
:-)
Antivirus integration with such a game would let it represent trojans as... hmm... mimics?
That's interaction I'd like to see. Blow up Internet Explorer once and for all with a BFG.
Grr, can't browse that site with Opera.
It's serving me octet streams for its web pages, so it asks me to download them.
Firefox got confused on http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/ as well -- "document contains no data".
Even the default Apache settings get these basic things right. *sigh*
" virtually bug free,"
Hmm, but one would need to brace oneself for new bugs due to the much more varied PC hardware => having to rely on third party developers => having to accept they might break your stable OS. That's basically the major cause of instability for Windows XP that I can see today. Fortunately, there are WHQL certified drivers so it became less of an issue when those were introduced. Just saying that with Apple hardware, you're staying away from a heck of a lot of problems in the formula of giving drivers direct hardware acccess for decent perfomance while keeping the whole thing stable.
While the author of the article see that Google is increasing its lead, he think it will narrow in the future due to new exciting features e.g. Yahoo has to offer?
:-p Bogged down "portals" with tons of clutter comes into mind.
He fail to mention anything about MSN Search and A9 closing any gaps. And in November, Google increased the searches on sites owned by them with 5.3 percentage units and Yahoo with 1.1. He then goes ahead and speaks of gain in USA, but again fails to mention what they would be.
If he's saying that as long as these companies keep pushing new products, they're gaining a lead, I don't really agree with that. They need to be successful with that first...
You and the moderators who modded you up should re-read the article.
No, you don't even need to read the linked article, the Slashdot news item would suffice.
Damn phpBB tags!
;-)
There's a Firefox extension that gives you a popup menu for faster phpBB tag selection.
... the juicy bits are here. Scroll down to the bottom for the appendices where there are C code examples on how to bypass these measures.
You say there have to be a point?
Jeez, you're not a geek!
OK, I did some searching for the Neowin article on this, and can just as well post it here too. ;-)
It's a bunch of fun historical documents.
- Screenshot of Tim-Berner Lee's web browser/editor gizmo (apparently two apps in one suite, kinda like Mozilla?)
- Web page (from 1992) describing a very early version of HTML
- Description of the web (from 1992)*
- The original WWW proposal from 1989**
- History of the web
* = It tells you why the WWW was made... "Tim decided that high energy physics needed a networked hypertext system and CERN was an ideal site for the development of wide-area hypertext ideas"
** = excerpt: "Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990."
So you're saying that you always need more than one server regardless of network size or what you use it for?