Just looked at my logs for the last two days and MSIE 7 has already caused more requests than Opera/8, making it the #4 after MSIE 6, Mozilla and MSIE 5 (yes, grouping could be better for the Mozilla/Firefox family). It's a tech site, so the early adopters can be expected to show up here. Still, that was fast.
Em, some logic, please? Just because Gates sides with Google on one issue doesn't make Microsoft and Google the same and anything "evil" he or his company might have done in the past go away.
Besides, I find the whole good / evil classification of Fortune 500 companies laughable. This isn't a fairy tale where everyone's either bad or good. Kudos to Google for the PR stunt, though. No, not PageRank, this time.
If you have to think in those categories, Google's saving of all log data has already been evil for years. It wouldn't be allowed in some countries (e.g. Germany).
Some people in North Korea (!) have access to the Internet although their ccTLD isn't even active. There are always ways for the privileged ones and the ones in the know (proxy users).
What has the "whole WWII thing" to do with this particular Wikipedia problem? Utter lack of freedom of speech? Germany does not discuss its Nazi past and is trying to bury it? Have you ever been to Germany, watched at least some German television or read a German newspaper? We're talking about the same Germany that ranks a lot higher on that world press freedom ranking than almost everyone else, including the US? That constantly discusses its Nazi past? And what do you know about the German legal system and this particular case?
You have no idea what you're talking about. And why is this moderated Insightful? Seriously, moderators, get a clue or refrain from moderating.
Yeah, but the FBI isn't supposed to know that you bought a book called "Why Bush is a Tyrant."
But "sleepers" usually try everything not to stick out. Including not going to meetings of radicals or reading radical books (or at least buying them on the Internet). Wouldn't this just be helpful with stupid terrorists?
Just like that whole e-mail interception thing. Do terrorists really communicate using unencrypted e-mail?
With the latest version of the VLC media player (0.84a for Windows) I only get sound, no picture. If I use the regular Windows media player (Windows 2000) I do get video, but it smears all the time. Any hints on how to play the video correctly?
I remember some/. story from a while ago which stated that Google and Yahoo! each want to donate servers and bandwidth. What happened to that? Or is this support already in place but still not enough?
Spelling flames aside, I'd like to know some absolute numbers. How many queries were there exactly? The diagrams all look the same, one or two peaks at some point.
Issue is that PHP is not modular. There are no modules, no namespaces, the scopes are half baked, the syntax is fugly, the OO is a pityful hack and the constructs are stupid.
If the language doesn't offer certain constructs, it all has to happen using coding discipline. That's quite hard but it can be done.
PHP with big application tends to become a nightmare. It doesn't have to be. Good modular design, capable developers and you can use every language to build something big and maintainable. Reality paints a different picture.
No. If you order Bratwurst for two in English it's "bratwursts", not Bratwürste. If you are going to more than one party in Germany it's "Partys", not parties. When using neologisms in a language that language's rules are applied.
Besides, the "with...opening" sentence from the story cannot be translated 1:1 into German, so there is no exact translation anyway.
So how is this news? An interesting source of information on Google has been created recently. So, it's new. It's newsworthy on/. because quite a few readers might be interested.
In addition: Maybe there will be better UI elements for entering text and picking items from a list in the future. But I doubt that very fast 3D graphics will have anything to do with their acceptance and implementation.
Nobody said a PhD made you an expert in every subject. It makes you an expert in the subject you got your PhD in.
You'll be an expert on some aspects of the subject. You can get a PhD in computer science and have a deep knowledge of databases while your knowledge of complexity theory may be flawed.
I didn't assume that you were asking for legislation, but you seem to see the necessity for change in some way. I don't think there is much to be done, except for informing people. However, from my point of view this is being done already. If you follow the media, the danger of porn addiction does get coverage. Well, not a lot, but it's there. I wouldn't overestimate the effect that this knowledge has on people. Information on the dangers of smoking is widely available, yet people still smoke a lot.
However, like cigarettes, porn affects more than the person partaking it. So this is why issues of regulation keep coming up. Partake = consume? In that case, I find the comparison unfair. A porn consumer does whatever he does to himself only to himself. With cigarettes, it's different, unless you only smoke where no other person ever is.
As for your other statement, just because some people spice up their love life with Snow White and the Seven Narns doesn't mean that we can't responsibly address the detrimental affects.
Spicing it up can make a big difference for one's well-being. I wanted to point out the positive side with regard to people in relationships which is often forgotten. For quite a few people, consuming porn is a healthy part of their life. Just like drinking a glass of wine once in a while.
You were emphasizing the negative effects, that's why I wanted to reply. Keeping a measured approach is what I'm recommending for consuming pretty much anything, and I guess hardly anyone will disagree. But I also want to stress that beyond the recommendation there isn't much that can be done for adults, which brings me back to the responsibility issue.
The opinion of one adult actress is not exactly proof. And the power she claims to have over men is rather volatile.
I think it's quite obvious that exploitation has to be reevaluated with every single porn movie or photo set. Some objectify and degrade women, some don't. Besides you'll probably get differing opinions for every single case. Try to get a soccer mom from the Bible Belt and an Amsterdam bar owner to agree on this topic.
There is just too much different porn out there to classify it all as either degrading or not degrading. It's like saying all novels are interesting, funny or boring.
You raise valid points, yet what you say with regard to adults and porn comes down to personal responsibility.
Porn raises expectations too much? True, but porn has also helped a lot of couples to spice up their relationship.
Porn can be addictive? Yes, but so can cigarettes and alcohol. That's why access for children is restricted, but adults can still smoke and drink themselves to death.
Porn isn't that different from other potentially dangerous "hobbies". I don't want legislation to handle the decision-making for me. Again, this is about porn and adults. With kids, it's a different issue.
5. At least one major feature that is missing from Photoshop (like, say, selective region compression in JPEG, which has been part of the spec from the beginning and would allow you to set a different lossy for a region containing text).
I don't think "selective region compression" is part of the JPEG spec. Care to elaborate?
A friend of mine says it is custom and is not out in the wild but it works like this:
That kind of software - detecting the contents of packets by checking for traces of known P2P protocols - is being sold and used for quite some time now. I'm surprised if any bigger network isn't running something like that. It saves a lot of bandwidth.
I don't think that's true. Wikipedia's featured articles come from all categories. That's certainly not a perfect proof of my point, but an indication.
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Just looked at my logs for the last two days and MSIE 7 has already caused more requests than Opera/8, making it the #4 after MSIE 6, Mozilla and MSIE 5 (yes, grouping could be better for the Mozilla/Firefox family). It's a tech site, so the early adopters can be expected to show up here. Still, that was fast.
Em, some logic, please? Just because Gates sides with Google on one issue doesn't make Microsoft and Google the same and anything "evil" he or his company might have done in the past go away.
Besides, I find the whole good / evil classification of Fortune 500 companies laughable. This isn't a fairy tale where everyone's either bad or good. Kudos to Google for the PR stunt, though. No, not PageRank, this time.
If you have to think in those categories, Google's saving of all log data has already been evil for years. It wouldn't be allowed in some countries (e.g. Germany).
It was a joke.
Some people in North Korea (!) have access to the Internet although their ccTLD isn't even active. There are always ways for the privileged ones and the ones in the know (proxy users).
What has the "whole WWII thing" to do with this particular Wikipedia problem? Utter lack of freedom of speech? Germany does not discuss its Nazi past and is trying to bury it? Have you ever been to Germany, watched at least some German television or read a German newspaper? We're talking about the same Germany that ranks a lot higher on that world press freedom ranking than almost everyone else, including the US? That constantly discusses its Nazi past? And what do you know about the German legal system and this particular case?
You have no idea what you're talking about. And why is this moderated Insightful? Seriously, moderators, get a clue or refrain from moderating.
IIRC, Google's PageRank also takes into account how many users click a link in search results, and it refines them based on that.
I don't think that's anything but a rumour. Anything to back that up?
Ask your GrandGrandGrandGrandGrandGrandMa
Which one? I have 64 of those.
Yeah, but the FBI isn't supposed to know that you bought a book called "Why Bush is a Tyrant."
But "sleepers" usually try everything not to stick out. Including not going to meetings of radicals or reading radical books (or at least buying them on the Internet). Wouldn't this just be helpful with stupid terrorists?
Just like that whole e-mail interception thing. Do terrorists really communicate using unencrypted e-mail?
With the latest version of the VLC media player (0.84a for Windows) I only get sound, no picture. If I use the regular Windows media player (Windows 2000) I do get video, but it smears all the time. Any hints on how to play the video correctly?
I remember some /. story from a while ago which stated that Google and Yahoo! each want to donate servers and bandwidth. What happened to that? Or is this support already in place but still not enough?
Within a short time, the College of Cardinals elected his successor, John Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany.
Did you mean: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger?
Spelling flames aside, I'd like to know some absolute numbers. How many queries were there exactly? The diagrams all look the same, one or two peaks at some point.
Issue is that PHP is not modular. There are no modules, no namespaces, the scopes are half baked, the syntax is fugly, the OO is a pityful hack and the constructs are stupid.
If the language doesn't offer certain constructs, it all has to happen using coding discipline. That's quite hard but it can be done.
PHP with big application tends to become a nightmare. It doesn't have to be. Good modular design, capable developers and you can use every language to build something big and maintainable. Reality paints a different picture.
No. If you order Bratwurst for two in English it's "bratwursts", not Bratwürste. If you are going to more than one party in Germany it's "Partys", not parties. When using neologisms in a language that language's rules are applied.
Besides, the "with...opening" sentence from the story cannot be translated 1:1 into German, so there is no exact translation anyway.
So how is this news? /. because quite a few readers might be interested.
An interesting source of information on Google has been created recently. So, it's new. It's newsworthy on
Thanks, that paragraph also caught my eye.
In addition: Maybe there will be better UI elements for entering text and picking items from a list in the future. But I doubt that very fast 3D graphics will have anything to do with their acceptance and implementation.
Nobody said a PhD made you an expert in every subject. It makes you an expert in the subject you got your PhD in.
You'll be an expert on some aspects of the subject. You can get a PhD in computer science and have a deep knowledge of databases while your knowledge of complexity theory may be flawed.
I didn't assume that you were asking for legislation, but you seem to see the necessity for change in some way. I don't think there is much to be done, except for informing people. However, from my point of view this is being done already. If you follow the media, the danger of porn addiction does get coverage. Well, not a lot, but it's there. I wouldn't overestimate the effect that this knowledge has on people. Information on the dangers of smoking is widely available, yet people still smoke a lot.
However, like cigarettes, porn affects more than the person partaking it. So this is why issues of regulation keep coming up.
Partake = consume? In that case, I find the comparison unfair. A porn consumer does whatever he does to himself only to himself. With cigarettes, it's different, unless you only smoke where no other person ever is.
As for your other statement, just because some people spice up their love life with Snow White and the Seven Narns doesn't mean that we can't responsibly address the detrimental affects.
Spicing it up can make a big difference for one's well-being. I wanted to point out the positive side with regard to people in relationships which is often forgotten. For quite a few people, consuming porn is a healthy part of their life. Just like drinking a glass of wine once in a while.
You were emphasizing the negative effects, that's why I wanted to reply. Keeping a measured approach is what I'm recommending for consuming pretty much anything, and I guess hardly anyone will disagree. But I also want to stress that beyond the recommendation there isn't much that can be done for adults, which brings me back to the responsibility issue.
The opinion of one adult actress is not exactly proof. And the power she claims to have over men is rather volatile.
I think it's quite obvious that exploitation has to be reevaluated with every single porn movie or photo set. Some objectify and degrade women, some don't. Besides you'll probably get differing opinions for every single case. Try to get a soccer mom from the Bible Belt and an Amsterdam bar owner to agree on this topic.
There is just too much different porn out there to classify it all as either degrading or not degrading. It's like saying all novels are interesting, funny or boring.
You raise valid points, yet what you say with regard to adults and porn comes down to personal responsibility.
Porn raises expectations too much? True, but porn has also helped a lot of couples to spice up their relationship.
Porn can be addictive? Yes, but so can cigarettes and alcohol. That's why access for children is restricted, but adults can still smoke and drink themselves to death.
Porn isn't that different from other potentially dangerous "hobbies". I don't want legislation to handle the decision-making for me. Again, this is about porn and adults. With kids, it's a different issue.
Thanks, but it doesn't say anything related to Java.
From the story: From what I know this includes the GNU Classpath merge and means that Azureus can now be used in a 100% Free-Software system.
Sounds interesting. Is there any ChangeLog to read? I browsed the gcc and the gcj pages, but I couldn't find anything.
5. At least one major feature that is missing from Photoshop (like, say, selective region compression in JPEG, which has been part of the spec from the beginning and would allow you to set a different lossy for a region containing text).
I don't think "selective region compression" is part of the JPEG spec. Care to elaborate?
A friend of mine says it is custom and is not out in the wild but it works like this:
That kind of software - detecting the contents of packets by checking for traces of known P2P protocols - is being sold and used for quite some time now. I'm surprised if any bigger network isn't running something like that. It saves a lot of bandwidth.
However, was there anything as good as Napster again for finding obscure MP3s?
I don't think you can really compare swapping large files to finding and swapping small ones.
Wikipedia works best for geeky subjects.
I don't think that's true. Wikipedia's featured articles come from all categories. That's certainly not a perfect proof of my point, but an indication.