How different is this from my Preview Release? Should I download it? Or just wait until Nov 9th?
Among the largest changes are:
- Tabbed browsing preferences, see "Advanced" panel in Options. - Several bug fixes to the new find toolbar. - Browser migration improvements. - Security fixes, such as an important fix to the problem with inactive tabs able to grab input focus. - Maybe a dozen crash fixes, some being among the most commonly reported crashes.
Oh, and forget about getting around this by pre-ordering WoW since it seems the realm servers will be forced. You might not be able to order and play a US import version of WoW since you're not allowed to play on their servers...
OK if they cleaned the dirt, but how do you manage to "upgrade the resolution"? From *which* resolution? I thought the recorded resolution exceeded even that of DVD's.
Had it not been for this engineer, the Huygens mission would have failed due to complacency and bureauocracy, having been rejected and deemed "unnecessary".
Uh, yeah, that's a way to look negatively on it...
Another way to do it is to look at with which success both parties assembled a NASA/ESA cooperation to solve this critical problem, and did it.
If we're only going to only see the problems, no organization or company is successful. If we're going to look at those solving the problems in time to become successful in time, we start seeing those that are truly successful. I mean, if NASA had done anything truly wrong here, it would be to have ignored ESA, but they didn't.
It basically proves what I should have known all along: the technical merits of a format, along with how laden it is with DRM, do not matter at all to the general public.
Both WMA9 and AAC are much better than a plain mp3 in audio quality, numerous tests have at least shown this. They compete in the league with next generation formats like Ogg, not mp3.
I agree that DRM features doesn't seem to make much of a difference if this report indicates the trends accurately.
Between a google_im:// protocol embedded in the Google Desktop Search, and their acquisition of Picasa and their IM client this summer, it almost sounds possible.
How about -- soon to be a reality?:-)
Hmmm... I hope they'll go for Jabber. IMHO, the world doesn't need yet another IM protocol. Actually, I don't think we need yet another IM client either, but that's just me. Who knows what innovative features Google might come up with. I have a hard time imagining the next generation for IM clients myself. Any ideas?:-/
Hmm, maybe a shared virtual storage among a group of invited IM buddies. Have no idea if someone already did this though. And I think they'd need to stay free even while coughing up with the hard drives to accomplish this if they'd want any kind of user base. Hmm...
He adds that by 2020, "we will be placing millions or billions of nanobots -- blood cell-size devices -- inside our bloodstream to travel into our brains and interact with our neurons."
Has there been a breakthrough that I missed?
Because it has to be one pretty much now for the technology to evolve and mature over the years to the level that we dare to use it inside ourselves. I doubt we can discover this tech in 2018 and by 2020 have it on the market...
The point is that the movie needs to make money. If the audience don't like it or gets bored with it, the movie will not be profitable. That's all about Hollywood.
But isn't these EE's intended for the true fans of this series?
The cinematic release is, on the other hand, produced by cutting together the action parts better to hopefully not bore the audience. I thought Peter Jackson even said something like this himself -- that the EE's are intended for the different kind of viewing you can do at home.
Yawn. Who cares? A lifetime achievement award for making a bunch of low-quality plot-recipe movies and becoming stinking rich as a result; and we have to give him an award?
I liked his movies a lot, especially as a kid.:-) Ahh, those were the days...!
Only as I've grown older I'm seeing the flaws in his movies, but who's to say a prize should only be given because adults don't like something. I doubt these movies were intended for adults after all, because of the clearly defined "good and evil" so even very young people understand what's going on.
I can't speak for him being worthy this award or not, but given the right audiences (and I don't think it's particularly small), it's a masterpiece.
Good god, do you really have some sort of emotional bond with the original trilogy to such an extent that it affects you physically just being reminded of it? That's not insightful, that's sad.
This "emotional bond" you speak of is common among people who like a movie, or any art form for that sake, a lot. I feel sad for you if you've never found a good enough movie to experience it. I can listen to great pieces of music and it gives me chills, and I can watch movies that brings me to tears. A whole lot of us can. I hope you can feel some kind of emotions when watching movies, since it's great things to experience.:-)
I can't imagine how boring going to the cinemas would be if you couldn't create an emotional bond to some of the characters, for example by humor, anger, love, sadness, or something else.
Star Wars was a good bunch of movies. But they certainly aren't anyhing to spend more than a few seconds reminiscing about.
What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.
Well, since it's a SERVER, it is likely running as a service with all the rights of the admin who installed it...which means it can do whatever it wants.
... and the cache is then stored into the Administrator's profile folder. (GDS stores the index in the user's profile folder)
So what's then the problem? Regular users can't read the admin profile folder.
The idea that every file on my computer is indexed along with web pages, email, etc, means that there is one less barrier between my personal content and hackers, not to mention intellectual property theft.
Was there a barrier in place in the first place? No, not if you use Windows, at least, since, well... GDS can do it. If it can do this, anything on your computer can do this. Then there isn't a barrier, except for an imaginary barrier put up by you since no currently installed software on the system does it, although nothing says a user with an account on the computer can do the same thing by installing some software.
This may be fine for people who have machines filled with data they don't care about, but what about authors, musicians, programmers?
First, this only applies to computers where multiple users are using it, for example in a family, or at work. It doesn't let random users access your data. They'd need an account on the machine first and accounts are to be password protected. Assuming all this is true, you're storing sensitive data on a public terminal with all the scary things that implies.
Even if GDS was modified to no longer do this, the lack of security in Windows would let any guy on the public terminal bring a CD with him with the appropraite tools and do the exact same thing. If you want to see this problem solved, it must be solved by Microsoft, otherwise you'll just fix it with one specific application! And as long as it isn't fixed, I'll just assume this is how Windows is intended to work. I believe that's really the case, since GDS doesn't even try to workaround anything. It doesn't use any unpatched exploits.
When it all comes down to it, if you don't know how to find files, email, and documents on your own machine with the current tools available, you need some serious help with organization.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of GDS. I'll try to explain with an example.
To access your music somewhere inside a folder hierarchy because you've ordered things properly to find files using the file system easily, you know need to navigate through this hierarchy to get to it. With GDS, you can skip the navigation part. GDS is equally useful for both organized users and those who aren't, so having a reason to use it is unrelated to having a problem with organization.
Next you mention using current search tools, and these of course work, but do they find what you want in less than 0.1 seconds? If they do, well, congrats, you've found a competitor to GDS.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, and before you ask why it's delayed...
Same bug, comment #118:
"In theory this could land on the branch -- except there really aren't enough
people doing organized layout testing."
How different is this from my Preview Release? Should I download it? Or just wait until Nov 9th?
Among the largest changes are:
- Tabbed browsing preferences, see "Advanced" panel in Options.
- Several bug fixes to the new find toolbar.
- Browser migration improvements.
- Security fixes, such as an important fix to the problem with inactive tabs able to grab input focus.
- Maybe a dozen crash fixes, some being among the most commonly reported crashes.
this dodgy website [slashdot.org]. I am using 1.0 RC1 at the moment and it often renders this site very badly, hiding the text in negative-X land.
Fixed in the trunk builds, and will therefore be in all Firefox versions after Firefox 1.0 Final.
This is Bugzilla bug #217527.
In C++, you can never really say for sure what anything means without looking in every single include file.
Unless the kernel team has rules in place saying how operator overloading is (or maybe is not) allowed.
how long until c# is supported?
I hope the kernel will support QuakeC first.
Would rock or what??
"jsmith was destroyed by a bad USB driver"
Oh, and forget about getting around this by pre-ordering WoW since it seems the realm servers will be forced. You might not be able to order and play a US import version of WoW since you're not allowed to play on their servers...
It's almost as if they WANT the players to move onto WoW.
No, because Vivendi is thinking the same thing.
In other words, WoW might be ready around that time, but for USA only.
So Euros will still, with this delay, get SW JTL before WoW.
Well, maybe many geeks agree with his opinions there too.
OK if they cleaned the dirt, but how do you manage to "upgrade the resolution"? From *which* resolution? I thought the recorded resolution exceeded even that of DVD's.
Do they mean "we sharpened the image" or what?
Had it not been for this engineer, the Huygens mission would have failed due to complacency and bureauocracy, having been rejected and deemed "unnecessary".
Uh, yeah, that's a way to look negatively on it...
Another way to do it is to look at with which success both parties assembled a NASA/ESA cooperation to solve this critical problem, and did it.
If we're only going to only see the problems, no organization or company is successful. If we're going to look at those solving the problems in time to become successful in time, we start seeing those that are truly successful. I mean, if NASA had done anything truly wrong here, it would be to have ignored ESA, but they didn't.
Yes, it's more of an example of the fruit from some great cooperation. Congrats to both NASA and ESA for being successful here. :-)
It basically proves what I should have known all along: the technical merits of a format, along with how laden it is with DRM, do not matter at all to the general public.
Both WMA9 and AAC are much better than a plain mp3 in audio quality, numerous tests have at least shown this. They compete in the league with next generation formats like Ogg, not mp3.
I agree that DRM features doesn't seem to make much of a difference if this report indicates the trends accurately.
According to this MSN/ZDNet story, MP3 is dying.
According to Sony, it's not.
make sure we don't end up with *another* monopoly on the internet.
;-)
Are you saying there can be more than one?
I guess I should have been clearer - there's a gold master disk sitting in somebody's cabinet, safe, whatever.
But if it's not available, how do you know it exist?!
Waaait a minute...
Slashdot Alert! MS employee on the forum!!
GOOG
:-) (look at the number upside-down)
Speaking of that, I found it amusing they chose 4664 as the port Google Desktop Search listens to locally.
Between a google_im:// protocol embedded in the Google Desktop Search, and their acquisition of Picasa and their IM client this summer, it almost sounds possible.
:-)
:-/
How about -- soon to be a reality?
Hmmm... I hope they'll go for Jabber. IMHO, the world doesn't need yet another IM protocol. Actually, I don't think we need yet another IM client either, but that's just me. Who knows what innovative features Google might come up with. I have a hard time imagining the next generation for IM clients myself. Any ideas?
Hmm, maybe a shared virtual storage among a group of invited IM buddies. Have no idea if someone already did this though. And I think they'd need to stay free even while coughing up with the hard drives to accomplish this if they'd want any kind of user base. Hmm...
He adds that by 2020, "we will be placing millions or billions of nanobots -- blood cell-size devices -- inside our bloodstream to travel into our brains and interact with our neurons."
Has there been a breakthrough that I missed?
Because it has to be one pretty much now for the technology to evolve and mature over the years to the level that we dare to use it inside ourselves. I doubt we can discover this tech in 2018 and by 2020 have it on the market...
The point is that the movie needs to make money. If the audience don't like it or gets bored with it, the movie will not be profitable. That's all about Hollywood.
But isn't these EE's intended for the true fans of this series?
The cinematic release is, on the other hand, produced by cutting together the action parts better to hopefully not bore the audience. I thought Peter Jackson even said something like this himself -- that the EE's are intended for the different kind of viewing you can do at home.
You need a psychologist or possibly a general physical examination if that seriously happens to you.
No, I'd rather keep my emotions and stay away from a lobotomy, thank you very much...
Yawn. Who cares? A lifetime achievement award for making a bunch of low-quality plot-recipe movies and becoming stinking rich as a result; and we have to give him an award?
:-)
I liked his movies a lot, especially as a kid.
Ahh, those were the days...!
Only as I've grown older I'm seeing the flaws in his movies, but who's to say a prize should only be given because adults don't like something. I doubt these movies were intended for adults after all, because of the clearly defined "good and evil" so even very young people understand what's going on.
I can't speak for him being worthy this award or not, but given the right audiences (and I don't think it's particularly small), it's a masterpiece.
Good god, do you really have some sort of emotional bond with the original trilogy to such an extent that it affects you physically just being reminded of it? That's not insightful, that's sad.
:-)
This "emotional bond" you speak of is common among people who like a movie, or any art form for that sake, a lot. I feel sad for you if you've never found a good enough movie to experience it. I can listen to great pieces of music and it gives me chills, and I can watch movies that brings me to tears. A whole lot of us can. I hope you can feel some kind of emotions when watching movies, since it's great things to experience.
I can't imagine how boring going to the cinemas would be if you couldn't create an emotional bond to some of the characters, for example by humor, anger, love, sadness, or something else.
Star Wars was a good bunch of movies. But they certainly aren't anyhing to spend more than a few seconds reminiscing about.
What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.
So what's then the problem? Regular users can't read the admin profile folder.
Whenever a user logs on their searchable data is indexed and _copied_ into a single google cache/database which it then makes availiable to all users.
No, the cache is located in each user's profile folder, not at a single folder.
The idea that every file on my computer is indexed along with web pages, email, etc, means that there is one less barrier between my personal content and hackers, not to mention intellectual property theft.
:-)
Was there a barrier in place in the first place? No, not if you use Windows, at least, since, well... GDS can do it. If it can do this, anything on your computer can do this. Then there isn't a barrier, except for an imaginary barrier put up by you since no currently installed software on the system does it, although nothing says a user with an account on the computer can do the same thing by installing some software.
This may be fine for people who have machines filled with data they don't care about, but what about authors, musicians, programmers?
First, this only applies to computers where multiple users are using it, for example in a family, or at work. It doesn't let random users access your data. They'd need an account on the machine first and accounts are to be password protected. Assuming all this is true, you're storing sensitive data on a public terminal with all the scary things that implies.
Even if GDS was modified to no longer do this, the lack of security in Windows would let any guy on the public terminal bring a CD with him with the appropraite tools and do the exact same thing. If you want to see this problem solved, it must be solved by Microsoft, otherwise you'll just fix it with one specific application! And as long as it isn't fixed, I'll just assume this is how Windows is intended to work. I believe that's really the case, since GDS doesn't even try to workaround anything. It doesn't use any unpatched exploits.
When it all comes down to it, if you don't know how to find files, email, and documents on your own machine with the current tools available, you need some serious help with organization.
I think you misunderstand the purpose of GDS. I'll try to explain with an example.
To access your music somewhere inside a folder hierarchy because you've ordered things properly to find files using the file system easily, you know need to navigate through this hierarchy to get to it. With GDS, you can skip the navigation part. GDS is equally useful for both organized users and those who aren't, so having a reason to use it is unrelated to having a problem with organization.
Next you mention using current search tools, and these of course work, but do they find what you want in less than 0.1 seconds? If they do, well, congrats, you've found a competitor to GDS.