This is why the Netscape brand is so important; many people know it and trust it and won't use anything else.
Yeah, their dialup service is only $9.95 a month with web accelerator compared to that used to be free Netzero.
Aside from that, I don't know what Netscape is anymore. I remember when the first betas came out after they split from NCSA and Mosaic, and the close to good enough browsers through version 4, but Netscape is a non issue since around 2000 as far as a browser goes. I know nobody employed in the IT field that would recommend using Netscape as a browser. I understand that some companies arbitrarily standardize on some product. I've worked at some place where the supported browser was some broken release of Netscape, but Netscape is gone. Sorry to break the news here.
We have two reasons for sending people to prison in the first place:
(1) To punish them.
(2) To reform them.
Punishment is a negative reinforcer for an organism following a behavior that _reduces_ the likelihood of that behavior will be repeated.
Reform is more of a human thing that also deals with behavior modification.
Given the data, is prison effective at punishment or reform?
I don't think so.
I do believe that the most effective part of prison is the negative reinforcement associated with people out of prison. I'm sure a few people have curbed their desire to kill someone or whatever purely from the fact that people are in prison right now for doing the same thing. Seeing stuff like CSI makes it even more scary for people.
I'd rather we spent our prison budget on working to enhance the education and reformation of the prisoners rather than keeping track of where they are at all times, something that we don't have a problem with right now.
Education is only appreciated by a minority of people. Its easy for us geeks to say such a thing, but we are geeky and actually like learning stuff, whereas most people have pride in their ignorance. Reform would be good, but paying 40-50k a year for incarceration and ruining their lives seems more favorable.
Or, are people actually responsible for their own actions?
I heard a priest say one time that it is unamerican for an inner city youth to choose to work at a minimum wage job over making money selling drugs. Think about it. If you had no education and came from a low income environment with no resources, would flipping burgers be a noble or better choice over drugs or prostitution? There is little to no moving up in the burger world and all you are providing is the lowest common denominator of barely edible food to people. Whereas with drugs or prostitution you are providing and controlling good feelings that people want. Being a pimp and/or selling drugs is being a risk taker and an independent entrepreneur with a constant demand and high profits (and risks) because these things are against the law, but very much in demand, and until genetics of humans change, there will be no decrease in demand in the foreseeable future.
prisoners gave up many of their rights when they commited a crime against society - theft - murder - etc.
Go take a poll of prisoners and ask them what crime got them there. Trust me, theft and murder is a minority. Most are there for drugs. I just found out that in my state, you get 3 years in prison for your 3rd DUI without a reck or anything, but getting pulled over 3 times and having over 0.06 BAC. Ironically, bars and restaurants are for some reason still legal to server alcohol even though you are not allowed to leave the place nor stay there. Unfortunately, people with wisdom are nolonger respected in our society, especially when it comes to elected officials. A person that would be way too physically unpresentable today that was our president at one time said:
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-- Abraham Lincoln
It didn't take long for out government to forget.
though they should still be treated humanely.ie no cruel and unusual
Tell me that sitting in a place where you can trust noone, get ass pounded, get full body cavity searched regularly, and stay confined in a small cell for over 10 years when you are sentenced to death is not cruel or unusual. I would never even think of doing that to someone no matter what they did. Granted I'm a little kooky because I believe that murder should be legal so that it would deter crime, but I'm way in the minority with that belief.
People, keep in mind that almost 2% or more, haven't looked lately, of our population is in prison or parole or whatnot. That is clearly more than any other country in the world. That says something about our society. Volumes.
the point is, there are always some number of disgruntled customers. such online reporting cannot be used as an accurate guage of quality
Actually, I've found it to be quite good. Unfortunately, I've found out things about products I have bought after the fact. My Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Bought it a little over a year ago mainly because it had Linux on the inside, and I thought that it was a decent product. Wrong. It needed resetting about once a day if not multiple times a day about when the warrantee went out. Noticed it was hotter than hell, and did a google search for "WRT54G overheat" and got thousands of hits. Don't see the reason to buy another Linksys product again. The SMC that I bought as a replacement seems OK. It was reviewed well. OK at work we bought a Lacie "big disk" that was 2 250Gig drives RAID0ed to give about 500Gigs of space. It too right after the warrantee went out died. It too was hotter than hell, and after looking at the thing after it died, it was simple to find the design flaw. All of the heat from the 1st drive went to the 2nd so it could overheat. Now Lacie is on my shitlist. After the Lacie problems, I wanted an external disk for my personal use. I was under the impression that Seagate was a decent IDE disk provider, and the reviews at newegg were encouraging saying it was cool and quiet and worked well. Well, after about 20 minutes of use the thing made a loud "clunk" sound and froze. After some time later, I did a google search and found out that _none of the 400 Gig Seagate drives work_ NONE! So I had to pay newegg 50 bucks to return the thing. Now Seagate is on my shitlist. OK, just last night I wanted to buy a new phone for my home. Simple, huh? Well, I was at Target and saw some cool phones that I was interested in buying. They were 80 bucks for a cordless phone, answering machine, and a wireless satellite phone as well. Exactly what I was looking for. Went to Amazon to see if they were cheaper there and to read people's feedback. Well, I've learned that _none_ of the new phones are worth buying, so I won't waste my money. I learned that the 2.4GHz models interfere with wireless networks, so they are all out of the question. I also learned that none of the 5.8GHz models are worth a damn. Some people complained about the answering machine not letting you delete a message until you have listened to the whole thing, battery problems, range problems, sound quality problems. So I then went back to 900MHz phones, and looked around. None of them had the remote handset and an answering machine, so I gave up.
I could go on and on. In my experience, small motorized gas things like weed eaters, lawn mowers, and blowers all are absolutely a waste of money at the lower price ranges. They either don't work, or they don't work well enough to use. Consumer electronics are the worst. They keep coming down in price and quality. Its rough for me because I'm an electronics geek, but I'm sick and tired of wasting my time and money on BS crap.
Better than an online forum to discuss how much stuff sucks. I would like a store that only sells quality stuff at a reasonable price. Newegg has lost my respect as a retailer. They still sell that nonworking external Seagate drive and they only show the 5 star reviews even though the rating has dropped to 3. Surely my review is not listed. Go over to Amazon in you want candid reviews of the product, even though I think they still sell it too.
Unlike Opera and Firefox, the IE for Macintosh and the IE for Windows are really completely different browsers with different code, different sets of bugs, and the same name.
The situation must be the same with Windows Media Player for the Mac as well. Although it recently got updated to play the WMV9 format, its a horrible application. With some WMVs that I double click on it asks me to "Check the filename" or some crap and does not play. You can't play more than one movie at a time or queue them or put them in a playlist or anything. Its amusing that when you launch multiple WMVs from the command line 'open' command or by selecting multiple ones in the finder and launching them Windows Media Player will decide to only play the last one for you.
The thing that bothers me the most is that I'm finding WMVs becoming more and more popular on the web for some reason or another and its gotten to the point that I won't download one unless I'm morbidly curios about the movie, but I only expect it to work 50% of the time with a horrible user interface 100% of the time.
I'm not sure what MS actually gains from having their own video codec, but I can say that I definitely don't gain anything from it. MPEGs are fine. While I'm on the subject, Apple's Quicktime Player is almost as bad as the Windows Media player, with the exception that Quicktime player is also nagware.
In recent years, he has become a professional internet Troll. He knows that he can get a lot of page views by saying things to inflame passionate groups (Mac users, OpenSource advocated, etc.) and he does so at every opportunity.
And then his rants get posted here, and a majority of the comments are about what a nut Dvorak is with a few people who feel compelled to feed the troll.
I believe its entirely unnecessary for slashdot to post any more Dvorak articles. They don't lead to any decent discussions. I only read thread because I haven't followed a Dvorak based article here lately just to see what people were saying, and it looks like all the other Dvorak based articles I've seen here on slashdot. I will never read directly one of his articles. He's a worthless writer. The last time I posted a comment to a Dvorak/. article, I simply bashed Dvorak and said that any Dvorak based article is flamebate by default, and it got modded +5 insightful just like most of the other highly moderated comments.
Simple, drag the link to the tab to open it in the same tab.
Actually, I usually just click on the link with the middle mouse button (this is with Safari on OS X) and the link opens up in a new tab.
My irritations with the new window hyperlink obsession is 1) I have to look all the time to see if the link will be opened up in a new window. 2) New windows take focus and can take between a millisecond to infinity to load. 3) Sometimes I'm too lazy and just open up the link in a new window anyway, and then get window closing happy and then I frequently close the websites window. 3) I'm a big boy, I can right click on a link and I can download the link, open it in a new tab, open it in a new window, or open it in the same window on my own.
I will say that I do respect sites like CNN that open external links in a new window to signify that you are leaving CNN. I still don't like it, but it is at least a rational decision. Opening up random links on a website that are both internal and external is simply annoying. Having a tabbed browser, I rarely have more than one browser window open, but its common to have 5 or so tabs open at any given time.
I had a few years left for qualifying for full retirement.
There is no ROI with retirement.
However, under most circumstances I would jump at the offer of a year's paid vacation. 6 months off, brush up on some new skills and 6 months to find a new job. Not too bad in my opinion.
So you're saying that many of the people stupid enough to get caught, thus contributing to this survey's statistics, had been caught before doing other things? Can you say "self-selecting group"?
Yeah, it always surprises me when I hear about people doing criminal stuff have been arrested before.
Good luck! Only several 'pro-sumer' HD video cameras exist nowadays, and neither of them could be classed as small.
Also consider that HD broadcasting is about 9 Gigs an hour which is also about 2.56 megabytes/sec completely realtime, I wouldn't hold your breath.
I wouldn't expect silly video conferences to be available until live porn to be available via HD. Plus after the latter comes out, I doubt anyone would be wasting their time going to work and stuff, let alone desiring HD video conferences with ugly business shemales. Yuck.
Since when did kids have to order expensive wine over the net to get drunk?
Kids and most other people want the instant gratification of the purchase and consumption of alcohol and the preparation and wait for the delivery is unacceptable. Hell, even warm beer that an overage person can easily pick up anywhere is unacceptable.
Also, most kids go with more easily to get things like beer from the local store and things that are more easy to get like marijuana and cocaine. People _never_ check your IDs for the latter, and are more than willing to sell it to anyone willing to pay. When I was underage, it was much more difficult for me to get alcohol than the illegal drugs. I even liked the feature that the illegal drugs would be delivered to me, which was rare for alcohol.
At least it used to be the case that IIS would not work either without IE installed. Hmm, maybe, just maybe they should separate the shared backend rendering libraries from the browser as well.
That's why I like how OS X handles this. Cmd-Tab to switch apps, Cmd-` to switch between windows within an app.
Thats nice, but a tabbed browser that does not tell you in the status bar if the link you are following will open up a new window or not is useless in my opinion. Now why oh why do web designers feel the compulsion to put every damn link in a new window is another question. What's even worse is when they open up all the new links with the same name so if you are daring enough to want to open up more than one window at a time the last one always wins.
For me the opposite is true. Correctly == Best. By that I mean that my typing speed is directly proportional to my typing accuracy. When I'm fumbling around and hitting the backspace all the time, my speed plummets. I've found that concentrating on typing accurately without smashing the backspace all the time is the singlemost predictor of my typing speed.
On a similar topic, when I used to code a ton in vi I got carpal tunnel syndrome in my left hand from smashing the escape key all the time. My hand was numb, etc. It sucked.
Yes, you can buy them. I believe its somewhere between $30 and $50k. I've read an article about all of the rich boy toy robots available and ASIMO was the best rated and in that price range, but I can't remember exactly the price.
Does anyone know how much ASIMO is estimated to have cost Honda?
Yes. Do I, no. However, they have been working on it for something like 18 years, and compared to a poor person, it must seem like a lot, but I would guess its a fairly small portion of Honda's 10% +- research and development budget, and I'm sure that some aspects of the robot have been incorporated into Honda's production robot team.
A strange worthless trivia piece of info that I came across recently was that Japan has 50% of the world's robots. I thought that was interesting.
Regarding ASIMO, I think the little guy is awesome. Do a google search for ASIMO, run, and movie. It used to have quicktime movies of the guy running, and it is absolutely amazing.
I also strongly suggest any respectable geek to watch the movie Runaway. The more insecure buggy and flakey software and hardware that comes out and our dependance on such junk reminds me more and more of that movie every day.
I think it's time that agencies and institutions quit relying on such a dubious means of identification as a key to perform transactions.
Hey, there doing the best they can. After all, they are going after high school students and other "bad guys" after they are caught doing "bad guy stuff".
Requiring people to issue their own unique identifiers (SSNs are not unique by the way) is obviously unreasonable.
Well, for one, it is public knowledge that the SSN X's (in my representation) are in fact, state codes. I have some reason to believe that the Y might be county or some sort of district code
Actually, XXX is some kind of geographical location. YY is some kind of checksum digit, and ZZZZ is issued sequentially. All of this is from memory based on a google search that I did, you can do the same.
I guess it kind of sucks that they're gonna get punished for this, but they deserve it.
To me the "adults" in charge of such a weak system that high school students can break in and get a list of SSNs so easily deserve more of a punishment.
You can't legally break into someone's house just to show you can, they should have told the school (or some news stations) that they were planning to show how easy it would be to get into the system.
Odds are, the "adults" would simply not listen, or if they did, they probably would not care enough to spend the time with the kids to see what was really wrong.
You can legally open an unlocked door (provided there is not a "No Trespassing" sign or whatever) and say "Hello, I could have robbed you if that floats your boat. Reminds me of a time when a coworker would always run as root on her Linux box and "lock" the X-windows session with some screensaver. She logged in from a console and ran startx to, err, start X. Back then, a screen saver did not do much in that situation because you could do control-alt-backspace to kill X and get dropped back to the original console that ran startx. I suggested that she should not do such a thing multiple times, and one day when she left before me I dropped back to the console and typed at the command prompt something like "See how easy it is to get dropped to a root shell???"
Back to the original topic, the article is weak in that it does not say how the students were "caught" or if they turned themselves in. That is significant. If they turned themselves in, although by the letter of the law they have done something wrong, I actually believe that they were more beneficial than not. If they were found out some other way, I still believe that they should at most have to do some community service, but privately commended for doing a good. job. I mean this was a _remote_ compromise by high school students with software that is more than likely used by many other schools, governments, and/or companies. This is a screwed up situation.
Maybe I'm forgetting some company, but I can only think of a handful of major players that are not American companies in the computer field. And those are hardware companies like motherboards, and no major players in the software world.
I've paid for a 64-bit processor, for crying out loud -- and I'm damned if I'm going to have it run on half its cylinders.
Tell me about it.
I've been begging for a 64bit office suite for years so that I could overcome the 4 gig of memory limit for my letters and spreadsheets.
Afterall, a majority of 32bit apps on 64bit machines actually run faster, but if you are still suffering from the limits of a 32bit office app, by all means compile it for 64bit.
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Or is money just something the rich dangle to make the poor jump through hoops?
Yeah, pretty much. And then they make up some estimate figure about how much money the rich people are loosing because the poor employees actually want to spend a couple dollars of it to see a movie.
Americans are so bassackwards when it comes to work. If its something you truly enjoy doing, then work until you explode, but for me I do enjoy what I do, but I actually do enjoy other stuff that simply does not pay, or does not pay very much, so I work so I can do these things.
Now we are "loosing" all this money due to a movie release. Fine. But I've read somewhere where billions and billions of dollars have been "saved" due to switching from rotary dialed phones to push button phones. So I guess that the corporations and businesses are coming out ahead being that phones are used daily and a movie premier like this comes out every couple of years.
Oh, and my work is going to "loose" a couple of days productivity from me today and tomorrow because I'm going to my cousin's wedding. Next headline will be the productivity lost due to that.
Yeah, I remember there were a few issues here and there about 8 years ago when 64bit linux was pretty new for the Alpha. The only issue I've had in the past 3 years has been with one software package (flac) on an Itanium, and with some binary only distributed packages that I tried to run on an Itanium. 32bit stuff runs fine on an Itanium, its getting all of the 32bit shared libraries and RPM dependancies that were a pain.
I mean, Windows has even had a 64bit release of their OS around 10 years ago. Why are people thinking that 64bit stuff is new?
he/she'll be able to charge whatever he/she wants for the next 100yrs
Although I'm in the vast minority here, I believe that murder should be legal. If someone is bright enough to create cold fusion and is also an asshole enough to exploit it for 100 years, well accidents do happen.
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This is why the Netscape brand is so important; many people know it and trust it and won't use anything else.
Yeah, their dialup service is only $9.95 a month with web accelerator compared to that used to be free Netzero.
Aside from that, I don't know what Netscape is anymore. I remember when the first betas came out after they split from NCSA and Mosaic, and the close to good enough browsers through version 4, but Netscape is a non issue since around 2000 as far as a browser goes. I know nobody employed in the IT field that would recommend using Netscape as a browser. I understand that some companies arbitrarily standardize on some product. I've worked at some place where the supported browser was some broken release of Netscape, but Netscape is gone. Sorry to break the news here.
We have two reasons for sending people to prison in the first place:
(1) To punish them.
(2) To reform them.
Punishment is a negative reinforcer for an organism following a behavior that _reduces_ the likelihood of that behavior will be repeated.
Reform is more of a human thing that also deals with behavior modification.
Given the data, is prison effective at punishment or reform?
I don't think so.
I do believe that the most effective part of prison is the negative reinforcement associated with people out of prison. I'm sure a few people have curbed their desire to kill someone or whatever purely from the fact that people are in prison right now for doing the same thing. Seeing stuff like CSI makes it even more scary for people.
I'd rather we spent our prison budget on working to enhance the education and reformation of the prisoners rather than keeping track of where they are at all times, something that we don't have a problem with right now.
Education is only appreciated by a minority of people. Its easy for us geeks to say such a thing, but we are geeky and actually like learning stuff, whereas most people have pride in their ignorance. Reform would be good, but paying 40-50k a year for incarceration and ruining their lives seems more favorable.
Or, are people actually responsible for their own actions?
I heard a priest say one time that it is unamerican for an inner city youth to choose to work at a minimum wage job over making money selling drugs. Think about it. If you had no education and came from a low income environment with no resources, would flipping burgers be a noble or better choice over drugs or prostitution? There is little to no moving up in the burger world and all you are providing is the lowest common denominator of barely edible food to people. Whereas with drugs or prostitution you are providing and controlling good feelings that people want. Being a pimp and/or selling drugs is being a risk taker and an independent entrepreneur with a constant demand and high profits (and risks) because these things are against the law, but very much in demand, and until genetics of humans change, there will be no decrease in demand in the foreseeable future.
prisoners gave up many of their rights when they commited a crime against society - theft - murder - etc.
.ie no cruel and unusual
Go take a poll of prisoners and ask them what crime got them there. Trust me, theft and murder is a minority. Most are there for drugs. I just found out that in my state, you get 3 years in prison for your 3rd DUI without a reck or anything, but getting pulled over 3 times and having over 0.06 BAC. Ironically, bars and restaurants are for some reason still legal to server alcohol even though you are not allowed to leave the place nor stay there. Unfortunately, people with wisdom are nolonger respected in our society, especially when it comes to elected officials. A person that would be way too physically unpresentable today that was our president at one time said:
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-- Abraham Lincoln
It didn't take long for out government to forget.
though they should still be treated humanely
Tell me that sitting in a place where you can trust noone, get ass pounded, get full body cavity searched regularly, and stay confined in a small cell for over 10 years when you are sentenced to death is not cruel or unusual. I would never even think of doing that to someone no matter what they did. Granted I'm a little kooky because I believe that murder should be legal so that it would deter crime, but I'm way in the minority with that belief.
People, keep in mind that almost 2% or more, haven't looked lately, of our population is in prison or parole or whatnot. That is clearly more than any other country in the world. That says something about our society. Volumes.
the point is, there are always some number of disgruntled customers. such online reporting cannot be used as an accurate guage of quality
Actually, I've found it to be quite good. Unfortunately, I've found out things about products I have bought after the fact. My Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Bought it a little over a year ago mainly because it had Linux on the inside, and I thought that it was a decent product. Wrong. It needed resetting about once a day if not multiple times a day about when the warrantee went out. Noticed it was hotter than hell, and did a google search for "WRT54G overheat" and got thousands of hits. Don't see the reason to buy another Linksys product again. The SMC that I bought as a replacement seems OK. It was reviewed well. OK at work we bought a Lacie "big disk" that was 2 250Gig drives RAID0ed to give about 500Gigs of space. It too right after the warrantee went out died. It too was hotter than hell, and after looking at the thing after it died, it was simple to find the design flaw. All of the heat from the 1st drive went to the 2nd so it could overheat. Now Lacie is on my shitlist. After the Lacie problems, I wanted an external disk for my personal use. I was under the impression that Seagate was a decent IDE disk provider, and the reviews at newegg were encouraging saying it was cool and quiet and worked well. Well, after about 20 minutes of use the thing made a loud "clunk" sound and froze. After some time later, I did a google search and found out that _none of the 400 Gig Seagate drives work_ NONE! So I had to pay newegg 50 bucks to return the thing. Now Seagate is on my shitlist. OK, just last night I wanted to buy a new phone for my home. Simple, huh? Well, I was at Target and saw some cool phones that I was interested in buying. They were 80 bucks for a cordless phone, answering machine, and a wireless satellite phone as well. Exactly what I was looking for. Went to Amazon to see if they were cheaper there and to read people's feedback. Well, I've learned that _none_ of the new phones are worth buying, so I won't waste my money. I learned that the 2.4GHz models interfere with wireless networks, so they are all out of the question. I also learned that none of the 5.8GHz models are worth a damn. Some people complained about the answering machine not letting you delete a message until you have listened to the whole thing, battery problems, range problems, sound quality problems. So I then went back to 900MHz phones, and looked around. None of them had the remote handset and an answering machine, so I gave up.
I could go on and on. In my experience, small motorized gas things like weed eaters, lawn mowers, and blowers all are absolutely a waste of money at the lower price ranges. They either don't work, or they don't work well enough to use. Consumer electronics are the worst. They keep coming down in price and quality. Its rough for me because I'm an electronics geek, but I'm sick and tired of wasting my time and money on BS crap.
Better than an online forum to discuss how much stuff sucks. I would like a store that only sells quality stuff at a reasonable price. Newegg has lost my respect as a retailer. They still sell that nonworking external Seagate drive and they only show the 5 star reviews even though the rating has dropped to 3. Surely my review is not listed. Go over to Amazon in you want candid reviews of the product, even though I think they still sell it too.
Its frustrating being a consumer nowadays.
Unlike Opera and Firefox, the IE for Macintosh and the IE for Windows are really completely different browsers with different code, different sets of bugs, and the same name.
The situation must be the same with Windows Media Player for the Mac as well. Although it recently got updated to play the WMV9 format, its a horrible application. With some WMVs that I double click on it asks me to "Check the filename" or some crap and does not play. You can't play more than one movie at a time or queue them or put them in a playlist or anything. Its amusing that when you launch multiple WMVs from the command line 'open' command or by selecting multiple ones in the finder and launching them Windows Media Player will decide to only play the last one for you.
The thing that bothers me the most is that I'm finding WMVs becoming more and more popular on the web for some reason or another and its gotten to the point that I won't download one unless I'm morbidly curios about the movie, but I only expect it to work 50% of the time with a horrible user interface 100% of the time.
I'm not sure what MS actually gains from having their own video codec, but I can say that I definitely don't gain anything from it. MPEGs are fine. While I'm on the subject, Apple's Quicktime Player is almost as bad as the Windows Media player, with the exception that Quicktime player is also nagware.
In recent years, he has become a professional internet Troll. He knows that he can get a lot of page views by saying things to inflame passionate groups (Mac users, OpenSource advocated, etc.) and he does so at every opportunity.
/. article, I simply bashed Dvorak and said that any Dvorak based article is flamebate by default, and it got modded +5 insightful just like most of the other highly moderated comments.
And then his rants get posted here, and a majority of the comments are about what a nut Dvorak is with a few people who feel compelled to feed the troll.
I believe its entirely unnecessary for slashdot to post any more Dvorak articles. They don't lead to any decent discussions. I only read thread because I haven't followed a Dvorak based article here lately just to see what people were saying, and it looks like all the other Dvorak based articles I've seen here on slashdot. I will never read directly one of his articles. He's a worthless writer. The last time I posted a comment to a Dvorak
Simple, drag the link to the tab to open it in the same tab.
Actually, I usually just click on the link with the middle mouse button (this is with Safari on OS X) and the link opens up in a new tab.
My irritations with the new window hyperlink obsession is 1) I have to look all the time to see if the link will be opened up in a new window. 2) New windows take focus and can take between a millisecond to infinity to load. 3) Sometimes I'm too lazy and just open up the link in a new window anyway, and then get window closing happy and then I frequently close the websites window. 3) I'm a big boy, I can right click on a link and I can download the link, open it in a new tab, open it in a new window, or open it in the same window on my own.
I will say that I do respect sites like CNN that open external links in a new window to signify that you are leaving CNN. I still don't like it, but it is at least a rational decision. Opening up random links on a website that are both internal and external is simply annoying. Having a tabbed browser, I rarely have more than one browser window open, but its common to have 5 or so tabs open at any given time.
I had a few years left for qualifying for full retirement.
There is no ROI with retirement.
However, under most circumstances I would jump at the offer of a year's paid vacation. 6 months off, brush up on some new skills and 6 months to find a new job. Not too bad in my opinion.
30 percent of them had previously been arrested
So you're saying that many of the people stupid enough to get caught, thus contributing to this survey's statistics, had been caught before doing other things? Can you say "self-selecting group"?
Yeah, it always surprises me when I hear about people doing criminal stuff have been arrested before.
Good luck! Only several 'pro-sumer' HD video cameras exist nowadays, and neither of them could be classed as small.
Also consider that HD broadcasting is about 9 Gigs an hour which is also about 2.56 megabytes/sec completely realtime, I wouldn't hold your breath.
I wouldn't expect silly video conferences to be available until live porn to be available via HD. Plus after the latter comes out, I doubt anyone would be wasting their time going to work and stuff, let alone desiring HD video conferences with ugly business shemales. Yuck.
Since when did kids have to order expensive wine over the net to get drunk?
Kids and most other people want the instant gratification of the purchase and consumption of alcohol and the preparation and wait for the delivery is unacceptable. Hell, even warm beer that an overage person can easily pick up anywhere is unacceptable.
Also, most kids go with more easily to get things like beer from the local store and things that are more easy to get like marijuana and cocaine. People _never_ check your IDs for the latter, and are more than willing to sell it to anyone willing to pay. When I was underage, it was much more difficult for me to get alcohol than the illegal drugs. I even liked the feature that the illegal drugs would be delivered to me, which was rare for alcohol.
At least it used to be the case that IIS would not work either without IE installed. Hmm, maybe, just maybe they should separate the shared backend rendering libraries from the browser as well.
That's why I like how OS X handles this. Cmd-Tab to switch apps, Cmd-` to switch between windows within an app.
Thats nice, but a tabbed browser that does not tell you in the status bar if the link you are following will open up a new window or not is useless in my opinion. Now why oh why do web designers feel the compulsion to put every damn link in a new window is another question. What's even worse is when they open up all the new links with the same name so if you are daring enough to want to open up more than one window at a time the last one always wins.
For me the opposite is true. Correctly == Best. By that I mean that my typing speed is directly proportional to my typing accuracy. When I'm fumbling around and hitting the backspace all the time, my speed plummets. I've found that concentrating on typing accurately without smashing the backspace all the time is the singlemost predictor of my typing speed.
On a similar topic, when I used to code a ton in vi I got carpal tunnel syndrome in my left hand from smashing the escape key all the time. My hand was numb, etc. It sucked.
Yes, you can buy them. I believe its somewhere between $30 and $50k. I've read an article about all of the rich boy toy robots available and ASIMO was the best rated and in that price range, but I can't remember exactly the price.
Does anyone know how much ASIMO is estimated to have cost Honda?
Yes. Do I, no. However, they have been working on it for something like 18 years, and compared to a poor person, it must seem like a lot, but I would guess its a fairly small portion of Honda's 10% +- research and development budget, and I'm sure that some aspects of the robot have been incorporated into Honda's production robot team.
A strange worthless trivia piece of info that I came across recently was that Japan has 50% of the world's robots. I thought that was interesting.
Regarding ASIMO, I think the little guy is awesome. Do a google search for ASIMO, run, and movie. It used to have quicktime movies of the guy running, and it is absolutely amazing.
I also strongly suggest any respectable geek to watch the movie Runaway. The more insecure buggy and flakey software and hardware that comes out and our dependance on such junk reminds me more and more of that movie every day.
I think it's time that agencies and institutions quit relying on such a dubious means of identification as a key to perform transactions.
Hey, there doing the best they can. After all, they are going after high school students and other "bad guys" after they are caught doing "bad guy stuff".
Requiring people to issue their own unique identifiers (SSNs are not unique by the way) is obviously unreasonable.
XXX-YY-ZZZZ found to be hacking?
Well, for one, it is public knowledge that the SSN X's (in my representation) are in fact, state codes. I have some reason to believe that the Y might be county or some sort of district code
Actually, XXX is some kind of geographical location. YY is some kind of checksum digit, and ZZZZ is issued sequentially. All of this is from memory based on a google search that I did, you can do the same.
I guess it kind of sucks that they're gonna get punished for this, but they deserve it.
To me the "adults" in charge of such a weak system that high school students can break in and get a list of SSNs so easily deserve more of a punishment.
You can't legally break into someone's house just to show you can, they should have told the school (or some news stations) that they were planning to show how easy it would be to get into the system.
Odds are, the "adults" would simply not listen, or if they did, they probably would not care enough to spend the time with the kids to see what was really wrong.
You can legally open an unlocked door (provided there is not a "No Trespassing" sign or whatever) and say "Hello, I could have robbed you if that floats your boat. Reminds me of a time when a coworker would always run as root on her Linux box and "lock" the X-windows session with some screensaver. She logged in from a console and ran startx to, err, start X. Back then, a screen saver did not do much in that situation because you could do control-alt-backspace to kill X and get dropped back to the original console that ran startx. I suggested that she should not do such a thing multiple times, and one day when she left before me I dropped back to the console and typed at the command prompt something like "See how easy it is to get dropped to a root shell???"
Back to the original topic, the article is weak in that it does not say how the students were "caught" or if they turned themselves in. That is significant. If they turned themselves in, although by the letter of the law they have done something wrong, I actually believe that they were more beneficial than not. If they were found out some other way, I still believe that they should at most have to do some community service, but privately commended for doing a good. job. I mean this was a _remote_ compromise by high school students with software that is more than likely used by many other schools, governments, and/or companies. This is a screwed up situation.
they won't be able to compete with their rivals
Maybe I'm forgetting some company, but I can only think of a handful of major players that are not American companies in the computer field. And those are hardware companies like motherboards, and no major players in the software world.
Which rivals are you thinking of again?
I've paid for a 64-bit processor, for crying out loud -- and I'm damned if I'm going to have it run on half its cylinders.
Tell me about it.
I've been begging for a 64bit office suite for years so that I could overcome the 4 gig of memory limit for my letters and spreadsheets.
Afterall, a majority of 32bit apps on 64bit machines actually run faster, but if you are still suffering from the limits of a 32bit office app, by all means compile it for 64bit.
Or is money just something the rich dangle to make the poor jump through hoops?
Yeah, pretty much. And then they make up some estimate figure about how much money the rich people are loosing because the poor employees actually want to spend a couple dollars of it to see a movie.
Americans are so bassackwards when it comes to work. If its something you truly enjoy doing, then work until you explode, but for me I do enjoy what I do, but I actually do enjoy other stuff that simply does not pay, or does not pay very much, so I work so I can do these things.
Now we are "loosing" all this money due to a movie release. Fine. But I've read somewhere where billions and billions of dollars have been "saved" due to switching from rotary dialed phones to push button phones. So I guess that the corporations and businesses are coming out ahead being that phones are used daily and a movie premier like this comes out every couple of years.
Oh, and my work is going to "loose" a couple of days productivity from me today and tomorrow because I'm going to my cousin's wedding. Next headline will be the productivity lost due to that.
Yeah, I remember there were a few issues here and there about 8 years ago when 64bit linux was pretty new for the Alpha. The only issue I've had in the past 3 years has been with one software package (flac) on an Itanium, and with some binary only distributed packages that I tried to run on an Itanium. 32bit stuff runs fine on an Itanium, its getting all of the 32bit shared libraries and RPM dependancies that were a pain.
I mean, Windows has even had a 64bit release of their OS around 10 years ago. Why are people thinking that 64bit stuff is new?
he/she'll be able to charge whatever he/she wants for the next 100yrs
Although I'm in the vast minority here, I believe that murder should be legal. If someone is bright enough to create cold fusion and is also an asshole enough to exploit it for 100 years, well accidents do happen.